*ding* *ding* *ding* The final agent to enter the frame approaches the agent who fired the shots from behind. During this approach, he accidentally grabs the other agent’s left arm. This leads the agent to believe that someone is trying to grab his weapon, causing him to discharge the first shot. https://bsky.app/profile/oalexanderdk.bsky.social/post/3md77ypv6ls2v Thread with photos and video at link.
Reminder: this is how things always escalate in these sort of situations. This is how poorly trained paramilitary forces with little oversight behave towards civilian populations. This is inevitable. That being the case, this type of thing is exactly what @Paladin and @Steal Your Face voted for, and continue to rub themselves to. Hopefully the next time it happens the collateral damage can be people like them, rather than those trying to stop it.
The Republican position now appears to be that you have a constitutional right to openly carry a gun in public, unless you do so while expressing a view that the government dislikes, in which case the secret police can shoot you to death on the spot.
The victim of today's ICE shooting in Minneapolis is the 5th person to be shot and killed by federal immigration agents since President Trump began his crackdown last year. This is the 19th time they've opened fire. https://www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immigration-ice-shootings-guns-tracker/
They still address him as if he's sane and rational. It's like asking a slave driver "How many more lashes?" There's no answer to that which anyone wants to hear because in his view it can only be "as many as it takes" their heartfelt answer will always be "as many as it takes" And that's up to and including full burn civil war. Stop underestimating them.
And I called it back in '08. I got a dogpile of "boo! Radical tree-hugger!" and assorted other bullshit.
Imagine how far gone to think that there are people literally willing to die to create a political narrative. Surely there are people willing to *kill* to create a narrative, but die? GTFOOH Even so, if you thought that were true, that you were being set up, the solution is: don't kill them!!!!
Third angle shows Alex Pretti yet more clearly deescalating. As goon attacks woman, Pretti tries to shield, pulling his left arm back so it can't be misconstrued as restraint, raising right hand open. Sprayed in face. Turns away, shielding woman; he's swarmed, on knees trying to curl in protection. https://bsky.app/profile/originalsp.in/post/3md6zc7w3ks2u
Third angle. https://bsky.app/profile/ms.now/post/3md7fxdf2f22a Clearly shows his weapon being taken from his holster by a masked thug BEFORE the shots.
Stabilized and slowed version. https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1qm0kc9/a_stabilized_zoomed_in_slow_motion_version/ Execution. Unarmed and shot in the back. Execution.
Not just lies, over the top extreme attempts at myth-making to create a narrative for MAGA influences. Not even hiding that the narrative is indescribably at odds with documented reality. Bovino Claims Man Murdered By ICE "Wanted To Do Maximum Damage And Massacre Law Enforcement" - Joe.My.God.