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ShepBook 🇺🇦 retweeted
Don’t let this White House lie to you. Believe what you see.
Alex Pretti was trying to help a woman off the ground. Then immigration agents tackled, shot, and killed him.
It’s time for them to get the hell out of MN.
ShepBook 🇺🇦 retweeted
Perhaps even more sickening than the killing itself is your government telling you that what you saw with your own two eyes didn’t happen.
ShepBook 🇺🇦 retweeted
Not at all surprised, but truly sickened that @StephenM keeps calling Alex Pretti an assassin and a terrorist.
This is the most powerful government official after Trump, and he’s just slandering murdered American citizens.
He should be driven out of public life forever.
ShepBook 🇺🇦 retweeted
So I guess they never actually cared about preventing tyranny. They just wanted it to be their tyranny.
ShepBook 🇺🇦 retweeted
Fuck you, you lying piece of fascist shit.
A would-be assassin tried to murder federal law enforcement and the official Democrat account sides with the terrorists.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Videos of the encounter shows that the gun was never drawn. The weapon remains in the victim's holster until one agent removes it. After the victim is disarmed, a second agent shoots him repeatedly.
Videos of full encounter:
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Victim disarmed prior to shots being fired:
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ShepBook 🇺🇦 retweeted
Wild watching the 1776 crowd tell people to obey the secret masked federal agents or you'll die.
ShepBook 🇺🇦 retweeted
PRESS RELEASE: MN Gun Owners Caucus responds to the shooting death of Alex Pretti
We are deeply concerned by this morning’s reports that a federal law enforcement operation in Minneapolis resulted in the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by federal agents. According to local officials, the man was legally armed, a firearm was recovered at the scene, and he is believed to have been a lawful gun owner and permit to carry holder.
Many critical facts remain unknown.
We do not yet have an independent account of what initiated the encounter or what triggered the use of deadly force. Despite widespread speculation regarding intent, there has been no evidence produced indicating an intent to harm the officers. We are calling for a full and transparent investigation by both state and federal authorities.
Every peaceable Minnesotan has the right to keep and bear arms—including while attending protests, acting as observers, or exercising their First Amendment rights. These rights do not disappear when someone is lawfully armed, and they must be respected and protected at all times.
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ShepBook 🇺🇦 retweeted
Hands up - phone out. Another American murdered by a masked unidentified federal agent.
ShepBook 🇺🇦 retweeted
NEW statment from the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus:
“We are deeply concerned by this morning’s reports that a federal law enforcement operation in Minneapolis resulted in the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by federal agents. According to local officials, the man was legally armed, a firearm was recovered at the scene, and he is believed to have been a lawful gun owner and permit to carry holder…
Despite widespread speculation regarding intent, there has been no evidence produced indicating an intent to harm the officers. We are calling for a full and transparent investigation by both state and federal authorities.
Every peaceable Minnesotan has the right to keep and bear arms—including while attending protests, acting as observers, or exercising their First Amendment rights. These rights do not disappear when someone is lawfully armed, and they must be respected and protected at all times.”
ShepBook 🇺🇦 retweeted
If the Second Amendment does not apply to this exact kind of moment, what do people think it is for?
A citizen can lawfully carry, see masked federal agents beating someone in public, move toward the scene to help, and then get erased with a hail of bullets because “he had a gun.”
That excuse is an insult in a country where possession is legal by design, where the whole point is that the public never becomes a disarmed audience watching state power operate with impunity.
I’m not interested in arguing frame-by-frame footage. I’m interested in the principle that a free people cannot accept a standard where lawful carry becomes a death sentence the second authority feels threatened.
If that is the standard, then the 2nd Amendment has been reduced to a vibe. The founders did not write it so Republicans could do militia cosplay on weekends.
ShepBook 🇺🇦 retweeted
🚨BREAKING: NEW VIDEO PROVES ALEX JEFFREY PRETTI NEVER PULLED HIS LEGAL FIREARM🚨
In the video, you can clearly see an agent grab Alex’s legal firearm out of his holster.
That is the only time the gun is removed. And Alex never touched it.
They then yelled, “he has a gun!” and shot him, while he was completely unarmed.
Alex never drew his firearm.
Alex never threatened anyone.
Alex never even tried to reach for it as he was being violent assaulted.
He was not a threat, he was unarmed, and they shot him…
And they kept firing into his motionless, unarmed body.
They executed a U.S. citizen for legally carrying a firearm.
