In a heated interview with CNN‘s Dana Bash on Sunday, Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino said his agents were the real “victims” in the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis protestor.
Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old Veterans Affairs nurse, was killed by Border Patrol agents on Saturday. In videos of the deadly altercation between Pretti and several agents, he can be seen placing himself between an agent and several women that he was shoving. Pretti is sprayed with a chemical irritant and then wrestled to the ground, where one agent repeatedly hit him in the head with the irritant’s metal canister. Pretti, who was legally carrying a firearm, was fatally shot by agents while on the ground.
DHS immediately painted Pretti as a threat, saying that officers feared for their lives because Pretti was legally carrying a firearm. Multiple videos of the shooting contradicted the official line that Pretti was threatening agents. On Sunday, Bash pressed Bovino for evidence “that he was intending to massacre law enforcement.”
When Bash repeatedly asserted Pretti’s right to carry his firearm, Bovino made the bold claim that Pretti forfeited his Second Amendment rights via his actions.
The fascist will say anything, regardless of reality, logic, or even internal consistency, to advance his self interested power grab and all of the violence it requires. He has no moral code and no allegiance to law. He cannot be reasoned with doesn’t deserve that kind of deference. Once he achieves control, he cannot be voted out of power.
Wielding postmodernism as a weapon; the only truth to them is their truth. Fucking psychopaths.
… which is why they love religion so much
Objective provable reality is secondary to “Belief” … “Faith” … “I feel it”
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Yeah, but the picture is obviously a casual tour of the Capitol. That’s the lie they’ve told and lies before that and this is another round of lies people want to believe. And I’m sure I’ll hear it spouted when I’m out and about.
They were mostly peaceful, allegedly, and nobody got hurt (if you don’t count the people that got hurt or killed).
You’re a terrorist assassin deserving of execution if you help a woman who was shoved over in the snow, but attempting to climb through a secure and barricaded door in the face of multiple people with their weapons drawn then being shot makes you a tragic victim worth of a multi-million dollar settlement.
War is Peace, also
The Right is coming for your guns.
It’s always been projection with those fucks.
Well and isn’t that just what they accused the left (and the center) of doing? Full disclosure, I am a gun owning slightly left of center.
Yes. But the left never wanted your guns. Just sensible laws. The right will now have to take your guns because they don’t want anyone forming a militia.
Americans, show them your second amendment counts already
I am a lifelong supporter of the 2nd Amendment, but not a single issue voter. So no one can really place me politically.
What bothers me most is fellow gun enthusiasts (cough republican gun nuts)… always say its a “God given right”…
these events are going to be a brain melting contraction to their beliefs that the GOP supports them and that the 2A is immutable.
The GOP did a great job of convincing the feeble minded that they are their supporters and guns are their greatest political topic to rally behind… Now trump is having a come to jesus moment for the party, as his DHS, FBI, and others in his administration are saying they will kill you if you have guns around them
The idea of “god given rights” has never been true. Humans have always had to fight for every right they have ever had, and it takes away power from those rights to insinuate they were given to us by some magic sky man.
I hate that fucking smug face, where is a Lugi when one is needed.
Go be a hero
ICE agents carry weapons and citizens fear for their lives… so by their standards…
The NRA and right wing gun culture has convinced a generation that the 2A is about your right to own a gun.
The 2A is explicitly about your right to organize members of your community in order to defend your community, the fact that you need weapons for that means that you must also have the right to own weapons.
It also explicitly says “right of the people to keep and bear Arms”. Not sure what point you’re trying to make.
Remember what happend to Charlie Kirk
The right had him killed hoping that would be the catalyst.
Does anyone else not give a flying fuck what traitors say?
There’s my peoples. Fuck these nazis.
You fucking Nazis are not granting us our rights…you work for us fuck head
Man, I wonder if the second amendment set is finally realizing the right has always wanted your guns more than the left.
Or did we forget “take the guns first”?
Cool. Do I get to decide which rights apply to Bovino and his bullshit army now? What he’s doing doesn’t sound much like “…support[ing] and defend[ing] the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic…” or “…bear[ing] true faith and allegiance to the same…” so his actions ought to have consequences too.
Before the reply: No, I will not elaborate, fed.
There was a lot more than just the 2nd amendment right that was being violated there.
Something, something, inalienable rights, something, something, life, liberty…
Yeah I’d like to know what part of inalienable is messing with his (Bovino’s) head…
