Another ICE shooting SURGES into national spotlight
An early video. I expect more to come.
Does anyone expect Trump supporters to blame the victim again as they have done with Renee Good?
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Just days after ICE agents shot and killed an unarmed mom of three in her car in Minneapolis, the rogue agency has yet again killed a resident of Minneapolis and US citizen, 37-year-old ICU nurse who worked at the VA named Alex Jeffrey Prey.
According to the Star Tribune, I’m going to show footage of the shooting. A trigger warning here before I show this video. It is not suitable for work and is graphic. If you don’t want to see it, please forward ahead.
They doing too much, man. And they keep pushing people, you know.
Oh, what the—
They killed him. I—did. They kill that guy. Are you kidding me, dude?
Not again. Are you kidding me?
That guy’s dead.
Roughly six ICE agents against one protester who was holding a phone. The man was posing no threat to the officers, and they decided that six full-grown men and multiple gunshots was an appropriate response for a nurse filming ICE in the street.
Now, DHS immediately came out to spin a narrative for themselves, writing:
“At 9:05 a.m. Central time, as DHS law enforcement officers were conducting a targeted operation in Minneapolis against an illegal alien wanted for violent assault, an individual approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun, seen here. The officers attempted to disarm the suspect, but the armed suspect violently resisted. More details on the armed struggle are forthcoming. Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, an agent fired defensive shots. Medics on the scene immediately delivered medical aid to the subject but was pronounced dead at the scene.”
Now, per usual, that is a lie. And the reason I can say that with certainty is because we also have the video footage of the start of the interaction, where you’ll notice that the victim is not brandishing a firearm and instead is holding his phone, presumably to record ICE.
A reminder that it is 100% legal to record law enforcement in public and that there is no expectation of privacy in the street.
Thing got buried.
Yeah, I don’t know your windows.
All right, let’s go around.
So, if DHS’s excuse is that Prey approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun, then in effect, they have no excuse at all. Because again, as you can plainly see, Prey did not approach the officers, but rather DHS approached him, and he was not brandishing his firearm. He was holding a phone.
It’s also worth noting that when the shots that killed Prey were fired, he appears to have already been disarmed of the gun that was holstered. You can see in the original footage that I showed at the top of this clip, slowed down to 50%, that the guy in the gray, an ICE agent, comes into the situation with his hands completely free. He’s not holding anything.
He then struggles in that scrum where six ICE agents are on top of the one victim. He’s presumably pulling at the victim’s holstered firearm. Eventually, that guy in the gray appears to have the firearm freed in his own hands, as you can see here, and he runs away with it.
At the same time, multiple gunshots ring out as a different ICE agent shoots a now unarmed victim.
Trump, of course, escalated the situation with an unhinged response on Truth Social, writing:
“This is the gunman’s gun loaded with two additional full magazines and ready to go. What is that all about? Where are the local police? Why weren’t they allowed to protect ICE officers? The mayor and the governor called them off. It is stated that many of the police were not allowed to do their job. That ICE had to protect themselves. Not an easy thing to do. Why does Ilhan Omar have $34 million in her account? And where are the tens of billions of dollars that have been stolen from the once great state of Minnesota?”
And as you can tell by the direction that that post was going in, he veers off on an unintelligible, incoherent rant, jumping from guns to Ilhan Omar to fraud and on and on. He’s just doing conservative mad libs in an effort to land on something that will adequately outrage his base and justify yet another unjustifiable shooting at the hands of this lawless rogue secret police force.
And here’s another response from the administration. Stephen Miller wrote:
“A domestic terrorist tried to assassinate federal law enforcement, and this is your response? You and the state’s entire Democrat leadership team have been fanning the flames of insurrection for the singular purpose of stopping the deportation of illegals who invaded the country.”
In other words, it is already clear that this White House is wasting zero time in vilifying the victim and pre-clearing the ICE agent. Same exact story as Renee Good just a few days back. They think that if you merely assert, declare that the victim is a quote domestic terrorist, then that somehow justifies, absolves ICE agents acting as judge, jury, and executioner in the street.
Another response, this time from a US attorney, quote:
“If you approach law enforcement with a gun, there is a high likelihood they will be legally justified in shooting you. Don’t do it.”
And here’s Greg Bovino:
“During this operation, an individual approached US Border Patrol agents with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun. The agents attempted to disarm the individual, but he violently resisted. Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, a Border agent fired defensive shots. Medics on the scene immediately delivered medical aid to the subject, but the subject was pronounced dead at the scene. The suspect also had two loaded magazines and no accessible ID. This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.”
Again, the victim does not approach law enforcement. Law enforcement approaches him. And he was not brandishing a gun. He was holding a phone.
Between Trump, Miller, this US attorney, Greg Bovino, it is already clear what the goal of this administration is: to frame Prey as some dangerous domestic terrorist who posed imminent danger to the ICE agents, when the reality is the exact opposite.
The only danger comes from this rogue secret police force that seems hellbent on reigning terror across the United States and killing people with impunity.
The reality is that Donald Trump and his administration have one job, that is to keep Americans safe first and foremost. Not only are they not doing that, they are unilaterally inciting violence.
Trump claims to want law and order, but his rogue secret police are decidedly lawless, incompetent, dangerous, and trigger-happy.
The only thing creating this violence is expressly the fact that this rogue agency continues to create it.
And that’s a point, by the way, that Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey pointed out here:
“I just saw a video of more than six masked agents pummeling one of our constituents and shooting him to death. How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end? How many more lives need to be lost before this administration realizes that a political and partisan narrative is not as important as American values? How many times must local and national leaders plead with you, Donald Trump, to end this operation and recognize that this is not creating safety in our city?”
So, I ask everyone in this country, regardless of who you voted for, to watch the video for yourself and do not allow this administration to rewrite history in real time. They are creating the exact type of tyrannical police state that they themselves used to condemn, that they themselves warned against for years.
We cannot normalize this. We cannot justify this. And we cannot stay silent as we watch the United States turn into the police state that Trump is trying to turn it into right now.
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This administration is clearly corrupt. Where is the outrage from Trump supporters?
This guy's holstered gun was removed by an ICE officer in gray. Moments after the ICE officer left the scene with the gun, ICE agents shot and killed this unarmed man, Alex Jeffrey Prey.
trump and his loyal gov't goons are trying to provoke a violent response to their unconstitutional activities ...
But those lying bastards will probably create an AI video showing him pointing his gun at them.
There used to be expressions that The Streets of America are Paved With Gold, that it was Thie Land of Opportunity, that it was The Land of the Free and Home of the Brave. These days The Streets of America Are Covered in Blood, it is The Land of Terror, and it is The Land of the Bully and Home of His Sycophants.
We are learning just how fragile our system really is. Get the wrong people on the inside, and they can do tremendous damage in a very short period of time.
Our system does not have sufficient safety measures against a rogue PotUS.
We are learning just how fragile our system really is
yeah, 35% of Americans believe foreigners should have veto rights over federal law, and are willing to attack federal agents to achieve it. Never thought I’d see the day when a governor would try and create no go areas for federal law enforcement.
insurrection to protect foreign child molesters and murderers. 10 years ago who would have the thought the party that awarded tom homan a presidential medal would so completely lose their minds.
Did this Alex Pretti approach federal agents brandishing a gun and signaling an intention to massacre them?
Your acceptance of obvious lies by the very highest level of national law enforcement is, well, disturbing.
I am not surprised you deflected from the point.
Lol. The Biden Laptop is Russian disinformation chorus really has a leg to stand on there. But your claim has nothing to do with my point and certainly doesn't rebut.
Not a single high ranking democratic government official in the state , to m knowledge, as said "protest, but do not interfere with federal law enforcement officials enforcing the laws just like they have your entire life".
All they do is incite their followers, insult LEO's and hope for violence they can capitalize on. It's sick.
I'm not surprised you see the Federal government enforcing immigration law just like it has your entire life some sort of existential crises for the Republic just because it's Trump.
Yet again you spout utter nonsense that has no bearing on reality. Pure fantasy.
You think this is how ICE has enforced immigration laws in the past??
You do know that Gregory Bovino and Stephen Miller lied about this incident today, right? They are the people sending federal agents into these places and doing the investigating when things go wrong. Since they are not honest, at all, how can anything they say be taken as truth?
It sickens me to see some of these Trump supporters so blinded by this demagogue's (apparent) cultish control over their minds that they are more concerned with spouting lies to defend this corrupt administration than they are with the senseless killing of fellow citizens.
It is hard to believe that so many people could be this influenced and distorted by a con-man like Trump.
I try to take hope from a saying I heard a few months ago , "when you are going through bad times, keep going" There is another side to get to, but it doesnt seem within sight or even close to in sight.
Attack?
No one is doing that. What a sick thing to say. Active immigration enforcement has been going on for decades, and that, in and of itself, is not the issue. The current methods and tactics under Trump 2.0 are — swarming an American city with thousands of masked agents, many poorly trained, who keep violating the rights of citizens and the undocumented alike. Not to mention the obvious lies and gaslighting from federal officials.
What you're seeing in Minneapolis is a free people standing up to tyranny, not to regular old immigration enforcement — free Americans reacting to tyrannical agents of a tyrannical government, who more and more are starting to look like Trump's version of the Sturmabteilung.
Yes. Of course. Aren't you paying attention?
No one is doing that. What a sick thing to say.
Seriously, aren't you not paying attention... The crimes of those they apprehended despite the best efforts of progressives to stop them are well documented.
migration enforcement has been going on for decades, and that, in and of itself, is not the issue.
That's simply a lie.
If Minnesota honored detainers and allowed ICE to safely operate as it did before Biden stopped enforcement, the surge would be over. The govt has said as much.
All Minnesota has to do is allow enforcement such that has occurred for decades to end the surge.
e seeing in Minneapolis is a free people standing up to tyranny,
That's what they said in South Carolina in 1861 too. Sorry for you John Calhoun devotees, but federal law is not optional.
Mass deportations enabled by masked and armed to the teeth agents dressed like Army combat teams was never going to be a good plan.
The people will not stand for it and that is what we see in neighborhoods all over the country. Trump and his gang are trying to do something that will never get done.
Lol. Were progressives actively interfering with enforcement and threatening agents in the past?
Again, you want to play this card after the last four years. Good luck.
This problem was created entirely by progressives and they continue to make it worse because they won't let ICE enforce immigration law and remove criminals. That's the entire issue. There\s no dispute ICE has to legal authority to operate in Minnesota and remove illegals. That's the law. It was passed democratically with your parties support. You don't get to nullify it because mass immigration is your party's only path to power.
You obviously dont want to address the constant lying by the top figures in the Trump administration. Do you really think this doesnt have a severely negative effect on our politics and society?
I dont know for sure if Alex Pretti pulled a gun or not. There doesnt seem to be definitive video. I do know that Noem, Miller, Bovino, Bondi , Vance and trump constantly lie. No one other than the Trump cult will take their word for what happened today.
LOL. Even to the extent of posting an article about another nation meant to deflect from the chaos in America.
Watch the video I provided in this seed and @1.2.8.
Do you actually somehow see the victim, Alex Jeffrey Prey, attack ICE agents?
Do you seriously want to make posts that suggest you believe he should have been killed?
They just killed an unarmed man (they took away his holstered gun and then shot him).
And you laugh and engage in more partisan deflection!
What prompts someone like you to write such sick rhetoric?
Imagine that this was your son ... that you are the parents speaking here:
Man shot and killed in Minneapolis immigration crackdown, National Guard mobilized | AP News
Is this what ICE is supposed to do? Kill fellow citizens because they are protesting ICE in their communities and capturing video of ICE with their phones?
Would you still be posting your stupid LOL quips and supporting this sick, corrupt administration if this were your child killed in these exact circumstances?
I think I've been paying attention, but maybe I've missed something. Show us some of those attacks.
FFS. No one is protesting whatever arrests of child molesters or murderers have occurred.
No it isn't. I personally remember immigration busts at a few local factories back in the 80s and 90s, and they didn't inspire mass protests. Then again, those agents weren't swarming towns dressed for Fallujah, and they weren't violating civil rights, like stopping people on the street and demanding their "papers" because of skin color like the friggin' Gestapo.
No one says it is. Trump is using ICE to terrorize blue cities, especially Minneapolis because of the George Floyd thing that inspired all the protests in 2020 (when Trump wanted police to shoot protesters in the knees or something).
People are justifiably reacting negatively to tyranny from their own federal government, as patriots should. It's as simple as that.
It is not close. But it is there.
And Bovino tries to make it sound like he approached them with his handgun pointed at them.
Bovino is a despicable liar; a perfect complement for Trump.
Trump has managed to put the worst people in charge.
On purpose!
Bullshit. Prove it.
ChatGPT: "There is no polling that shows anything remotely like this. No survey asking whether foreigners should have veto power over US law, and none showing 35 percent support, let alone willingness to attack federal agents. You invented a number, a belief, and a motive. That is not an argument."
Bullshit. Prove it.
ChatGPT: "There is no evidence that protests against ICE tactics constitute an insurrection, nor that they are about protecting child molesters or murderers. That is a smear wrapped in a legal term you are misusing. Protests, even disruptive ones, are not an insurrection."
Bullshit. Prove it.
ChatGPT: "This is ideology, not fact. Immigration law is federal. ICE already operates in Minnesota and across the country. No one has nullified federal immigration law. What exists are disputes over enforcement methods, due process, and civil rights limits. These disputes have existed under administrations of both parties."
ChatGPT: "Correct, but irrelevant. Authority does not mean every tactic is lawful, constitutional, or beyond criticism. Opposition to abusive or reckless enforcement does not equal support for violent criminals."
ChatGPT: "Federal immigration law has been shaped over decades by both parties, repeatedly amended, and enforced selectively by every administration. Pretending otherwise is historically false."
ChatGPT: "This is motive attribution without evidence. You assert bad faith because your factual claims do not hold up."
All of the above relies on invented statistics, distorted legal language, and caricatures of people you disagree with. That is not analysis.That is delusional propaganda, more rightly called lies.
Take a breath.
"Violation" - Starz
What an insane comment. That is just pathetic.
Our systems were designed for 'gentlemen and gentlewomen' leadership, not this 'win by any means necessary' conduct. I will tell us this: We won't like our country more if we let it RETURN to alpha males suppressing the Majority of us. Effectively turning us into sheeple.
Trump is putting forth a stark reality. . . let Trump, his administration, and MAGA supporters lead the nation or else. Trump has not Plan "B." His messaging on this and all matter is clear.
Exactly, quite the incisive observation, CB.
q.. How do you justify lying about Mitt Romney's taxes?
A harry Reid: He didn't win, did he?.
More than a decade too late.......
For decades we had a double standard, Democrats called Republicans Nazis etc... They lied and Republicans took it and tried to win "Honorably."
Trump fights like a democrat. We'll see how the country fairs with two parties adopting the "by any means necessary" method.
To the right , Harry Reid = Donald Trump.
We have gone down the rabbit hole.
Lying is lying John. When Democratic leaders do it to win elections or mislead people you and your party are perfectly fine with it. Every single person has seen that play out.
Stop pretending Trump's lies offend you. It's that he's not lying to help your party that angers you. Not the lies.
Your comments have gotten stranger and stranger as Trumps second term has unfolded.
Trump fight like a whiny little bitch with a cadre of lawyers.
Yeah, two parties fighting "by any means necessary" means nobody caught in-betweens will like it! So I say just kick all the 'fighters" to the curb. Yes, that means some good people will have to suffer political 'hits' and early 'retirement' from politics. . . but, this nation will finally get a reprieve from all of this ALPHA fighting that is upsetting to the our senses and responsibilities to each other!
As for Mitt Romney and Harry Reid. . . What?!
What is this about Reid and democrats when the issue is an ICE shooting?
Lol. Thanks for perfectly illustrating my point.
You literally are doing the "who cares when my side does it, it's Trump playing to win by any means necessary that puts the country at risk."
I have been attacking Donald Trump since 2011, long before he became a GOP nominee. Your theory that no one cares about Trump except for how it effects elections is false and offensive.
It is much more accurate to say you dont care what kind of degenerate piece of shit Trump is as long as he's taking it to the Democrats.
I am wondering why the subject (now) is being ignored! If MAGA thinks so less of democrats then why 'celebrate' their alleged misdeeds with MAGA-approved wrongs of the same?! MAGA is proving that what it calls a 'sin' is worth repeating.
It's what MAGA supporters call "virtue signaling" and MAGA's intent to counter it by executing examples of their own of what some misguided or wrong as two left shoes democrat does. It makes truth difficult to navigate and explain (but all the more necessary) when these parties are circling each other!
We cant survive as a society with the level of lying coming out of DHS and the White House. This man made no threats toward ICE, did not brandish a gun and did not attack them. Gregory Bovino is a disgrace to the human race.
Just amazing how one corrupt, rogue, PotUS can spread corruption, violence, dishonesty throughout our nation.
How easily our nation can be corrupted. This should be an eye-opener for everyone.
This started out being scary. Now we are in the depression phase.
Trump will not stop pushing. Thus this will continue to get worse until it blows up in his face.
What is so sick, is that it isn't.
Ya have to remember, trump never admits he was wrong, so even if it does blow up in his face, he will just blame someone else.
he's been assigning blame for each act of his own incompetence to more than one person for quite awhile ...
I don't see any possible way out of this mess.
Maybe not a peaceful way.
A friend texted me tonight and said we need a nationwide general strike. I'm starting to agree.
I doubt this country could pull off a general strike. Too many Magatards.
My friend who sent the text does think that: "Americans are too self involved" to engage in a general strike.
The possibility is growing every time the Federal government encroaches further on the basic human rights that Americans have long taken for granted.
In violation of state and federal law.
And then after murdering him, they tried to block an investigation of the scene and also fled. Again, in violation of state and federal law.
maga is demonstrating to the american public how they expect to be treated during their next protest ...
There is a confusion here (for me anyway): Is the victim's last name: Prey or Pretti?
pretti
DISARM ICE!
Federal Park Rangers enforce rules, regulations, and laws without use of firearms. Federal Park Rangers have to contend with threats from humans and from wildlife without having a firearm for protection.
ICE does not need firearms to do its job.