Pair testify that Pretti did not hold weapon and was trying to help woman federal agents had shoved to the ground
Two witnesses to the killing of Alex Pretti have said in sworn testimony that the 37-year-old intensive care nurse was not brandishing a weapon when he approached federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday, contradicting a claim made by Trump administration officials as they sought to cast the shooting of a prone man as an act of self-defense.
Their accounts came in sworn affidavits that were filed in federal court in Minnesota late Saturday, just hours after Pretti’s killing, as part of a lawsuit brought by the ACLU on behalf of Minneapolis protesters against Kristi Noem and other homeland security officials directing the immigration crackdown in the city.
One witness is a woman who filmed the clearest video of the fatal shooting; the other is a physician who lives nearby and said they were initially prevented by federal officers from rendering medical aid to the gunshot victim.
Not reaching for a gun is cool I suppose, but I would still support those who are brave enough to fight against tyranny. The reason we have the 2A.
Well, I hope we’re just about there, otherwise we’re fucked.
Everyone already saw that was the case.
Doesn’t matter. The fascists make the rules and the rules are: what they see is what happens.
Either get used to it or do something about it, but doing nothing has never changed anything for the better.
but doing nothing has never changed anything for the better.
Who’s doing nothing? I’m confused
So give me some examples of what’s being done to stop this shit?
Alex Pretti is an example, so is Renee Good.
Fantastic! Everything is fixed now!
Sarcasm aside, do you seriously think throwing ourselves at a wall to be slaughtered is going to solve problems?
That somehow, Trump is going to suddenly disband ICE because a few people got murdered in broad daylight?
Guess you’re only here to provide the cynical take, if you’re at first saying people doing nothing is a problem and then switch to saying people doing something is a problem. You must have a very hard life if you look at everything this way.
“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it”
~ George Bernard Shaw
That is a good quote, but i hope you don’t believe your comments are the result of your power of accurate observation lol.
Just came across this post (https://piefed.social/c/PLT/p/1702345/have-hope-comrades), very applicable to this ‘conversation’ i had here:
What they say they saw. What they see is the same thing as everyone else. They lie.
And they know it and we know it but go ahead and show me what difference it makes.
He was just trying to get up. I’m just so angry at both recent murders. They can just murder us and all we do is watch and take video. Like the dodo. But I think this one is it. It just feels different.
I bet there crimes against women and children are much worse behind closed doors these are terrorists we are in trouble the constitution is gone
The media keeps repeating he had a gun not even saying he “allegedly” had a gun…
He did have a gun. Officials have commented he legally was allowed to carry a gun.
He was not threatening with or brandishing said gun, as some outlets have stated.
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They are correct. He had a gun. But thats not relevant.
Why do we need testimonies? We have like 6 camera angles that plainly display the execution.
This might be about covering the time before these videos cover, too, I don’t know.
AFAIK sworn affidavits would be required for turning over video evidence as well as eyewitness testimony, the article even mentions that one of the witnesses signing an affidavit was one of the recorders.
You’re correct. I just find the waning period that we live in, where AI is still reasonably apparent, to be interesting. We had nearly indisputable videos of everything for nearly 2 decades, where laws and bureaucracy lagged behind easily verifiable truth. Now, eyewitness reports are again helpful and necessary in the wake of lie machines.
There is probably not much doubt here. But with AI, which could even improve further (who knows how much), better to get the habit of improving the factchecking.
We all saw it, and it’s becoming increasingly clear to me that there’s a large part of the population that masks their enjoyment by lying about what they see. They’re unmoored by principle, like ships floating above a stormy sea of confirmation bias and plausible deniability.
