Anonymous wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/24/us/minneapolis-shooting-alex-pretti-timeline.html
There were seven agents on and around a pepper sprayed Pretti (who was face down with arms extended) for 11 seconds before the first shot was fired.
Apparently, the first shot was fired by an 8 year veteran of BP.
What the hell has BP been doing out in the desert when there aren't cameras around? How many executions have taken place?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I am curious, what do you all think was going on in the head of the shooter? What could he possibly be thinking? He has been doing this 8 years and presumably hasn't killed someone in cold blood before, at least in public. Not a new recruit with no training. So what was he thinking? I am not trying to justify anything. Just purely curious.
Also, other than trying to block the appropriation bills, which doesn't sound like it would do much anyways, what else can democrats do?
And can Minneapolis bring charges against this guy (and the last guy?). I know feds are not cooperating but can they legally prosecute? It seems in this case, there is plenty of evidence to convict.
When the deceased man was struggling with federal agents, one of the agents saw his gun and yelled “gun”. I believe one of the agents removed the deceased man’s gun during the struggle, but not all of the agents knew that. When the agents are searching the man’s body after he passed, one of them is heard asking “where’s the gun?”
These are trying to do a dangerous job and have protestors/rioters constantly in their faces. They were faced with a man resisting arrest who possessed a gun. I believe that was their mindset.
It’s not a dangerous job.
Law enforcement is a dangerous job, especially in this country where people are armed.
Anonymous wrote:Now, Kesh Patel is "creating law" that is contrary to the Second Amendment
Kash Patel: "You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple. You don't have a right to break the law." (Pretti was carrying a gun legally.)

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that MN has extremely low levels of ICE activity (as compared with states like CA, AZ, TX, FL) yet so very many issues. Protestors, injuries, incidents etc. Why??
I live in a very blue area (all Democratic gov, US Senators, Mayor, local government etc) that is majority brown, 30min from the Mexican border, see border patrol and/or ICE in town daily and we have absolutely NONE of these issues. No protestors (beyond a few people quietly holding signs), no major news stories, no dramas, property damage, people interfering or getting hurt.
What is the deal with Minnesota????
Anonymous wrote:Interesting that MN has extremely low levels of ICE activity (as compared with states like CA, AZ, TX, FL) yet so very many issues. Protestors, injuries, incidents etc. Why??
I live in a very blue area (all Democratic gov, US Senators, Mayor, local government etc) that is majority brown, 30min from the Mexican border, see border patrol and/or ICE in town daily and we have absolutely NONE of these issues. No protestors (beyond a few people quietly holding signs), no major news stories, no dramas, property damage, people interfering or getting hurt.
What is the deal with Minnesota????
Anonymous wrote:Interesting that MN has extremely low levels of ICE activity (as compared with states like CA, AZ, TX, FL) yet so very many issues. Protestors, injuries, incidents etc. Why??
I live in a very blue area (all Democratic gov, US Senators, Mayor, local government etc) that is majority brown, 30min from the Mexican border, see border patrol and/or ICE in town daily and we have absolutely NONE of these issues. No protestors (beyond a few people quietly holding signs), no major news stories, no dramas, property damage, people interfering or getting hurt.
What is the deal with Minnesota????
Anonymous wrote:Kristi Noem: "These are not just agitators anymore. They are violent protests. Frankly, this didn't turn violent until we uncovered the fraud in Minneapolis."
they are trying to use the ginned up "fraud" to justify all of this. Good luck with that, the truth it out.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I am curious, what do you all think was going on in the head of the shooter? What could he possibly be thinking? He has been doing this 8 years and presumably hasn't killed someone in cold blood before, at least in public. Not a new recruit with no training. So what was he thinking? I am not trying to justify anything. Just purely curious.
Also, other than trying to block the appropriation bills, which doesn't sound like it would do much anyways, what else can democrats do?
And can Minneapolis bring charges against this guy (and the last guy?). I know feds are not cooperating but can they legally prosecute? It seems in this case, there is plenty of evidence to convict.
When the deceased man was struggling with federal agents, one of the agents saw his gun and yelled “gun”. I believe one of the agents removed the deceased man’s gun during the struggle, but not all of the agents knew that. When the agents are searching the man’s body after he passed, one of them is heard asking “where’s the gun?”
These are trying to do a dangerous job and have protestors/rioters constantly in their faces. They were faced with a man resisting arrest who possessed a gun. I believe that was their mindset.
Anonymous wrote:Interesting that MN has extremely low levels of ICE activity (as compared with states like CA, AZ, TX, FL) yet so very many issues. Protestors, injuries, incidents etc. Why??
I live in a very blue area (all Democratic gov, US Senators, Mayor, local government etc) that is majority brown, 30min from the Mexican border, see border patrol and/or ICE in town daily and we have absolutely NONE of these issues. No protestors (beyond a few people quietly holding signs), no major news stories, no dramas, property damage, people interfering or getting hurt.
What is the deal with Minnesota????