Family members say the man killed by a U.S. Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis on Saturday was an intensive care nurse at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital who cared deeply about people and was upset by Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in his city.
Alex Jeffrey Pretti, 37, was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed getting in adventures with Joule, his beloved Catahoula Leopard dog who also recently died. He had participated in protests following the killing of Renee Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs officer on Jan. 7.
Pretti was a U.S. citizen, born in Illinois. Like Good, court records showed he had no criminal record and his family said he had never had any interactions with law enforcement beyond a handful of traffic tickets.
In a recent conversation with their son, his parents, who live in Colorado, told him to be careful when protesting.
Sorry I must have not made myself clear at all.
I meant Reddit is crawling with them.
I have no idea about Lemmy as I’ve been here less than a day, as you said, but it seems normal to me. How Reddit was pre-2016.
Again, sorry for the misunderstanding.
I’m just going to play it safe and never talk about it again on here from now on.
Erm, what? If you’ve seen evidence of right wing trolls you should absolutely talk about it and mention specifics. Thing is, I still don’t know if you saw such evidence. You’re being cagey about it.
I have not seen any on here. Only on Reddit.
I do not understand how this has been misconstrued. I can’t look at my original comment as it was removed but let me be clear. I have not seen any on here. At all. I never meant to say I had. There has been some confusion somewhere.
You wrote something like “is there a campaign to fight against misinformation on lemmy? I have been seeing a ton of it.”
Edit: exact comment from modlog is "Apologies, slightly off topic but is there a thread for organising action against misinformation on Lemmy? I’ve come here from Reddit and the amount of right wing misinformation and propaganda is insane. So much floating around unmoderated. Just looking for tips on how to effectively deal with it more than anything (other than abandoning ship!) "
Not sure how that was not supposed to be taken as referring to misinformation on Lemmy.
Sorry! I see where I messed up now.
It should have read "is there a thread on Lemmy for organising action against misinformation (elsewhere on the internet)?
That’s what I meant. I’ll work on my grammar if I’m going to stick around.