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‘What the f*ck did you do?!’ Video contradicts DHS claims about killing of Alex Pretti (www.commondreams.org)
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The footage of the fatal shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, said one journalist, “shows that the final act of his life was trying to help a woman who was being physically assaulted by the masked agents who would then kill him.”

In the original video of the shooting of a man in Minneapolis, identified by the Minneapolis Star Tribune at 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a woman in a pink coat was seen in the background filming the incident with her phone. 

Drop Site News obtained footage that appeared "to come from the direction of the woman in pink filming from the sidewalk" and showed the shooting at a closer distance than the footage taken from inside Glam Doll Donuts. 

In the video, the shooting victim, dressed in a brown coat and pants, is seen filming a federal agent with his phone. He's then seen guiding another person toward the sidewalk as the agent forcefully shoves a third person to the ground.

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[–] 15 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

The difference was that the 80s Republican politicians still loved America.

Sorry but that's just not true. The heritage foundation has never loved america and has never produced an american-loving republican, only capitalism and capital-loving republicans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_Doctrine#Origin_and_advocates https://www.heritage.org/conservatism/commentary/reagan-and-heritage-unique-partnership

With the arrival of the Reagan administration, The Heritage Foundation and other conservative foreign policy think tanks saw a political opportunity to significantly expand Carter's Afghanistan policy into a more global "doctrine", including U.S. support to anti-communist resistance movements in Soviet-allied nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. According to political analysts Thomas Bodenheimer and Robert Gould, "it was the Heritage Foundation that translated theory into concrete policy. Heritage targeted nine nations for regime change: Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Iran, Laos, Libya, Nicaragua, and Vietnam".

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Probably valid, but they still weren't killing citizens in the streets.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    Umm.. no. People were killed, white people just didn't care because the people dying weren't white and therefore it wasn't on the news. Republicans were killing citizens on the street in the name of fighting drugs and family values by killing black and brown people with hiv, crack and making abortions illegal.

    This is well-known history and honestly to forget it is either a deliberate choice at worse or gross negligence at best.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    White people would have cared more, they just didn't know about it because video cameras were so rare back then. That's why the Rodney King case was such a big deal. For the first time, we saw how cops really treated black suspects.

    A few years later it was driven home during the OJ trial, when we heard about even more systemic abuses by the LAPD, leading to a jury who simply didn't trust any police testimony due to decades of abuse. White Americans were finally understanding that cops weren't just ignoring blacks, they were systematically targeting them for abuse.

    Then smartphones came along and definitively proved it across the entire country.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    White people would have cared more

    There are some good apples among white people that's unquestionable. John Brown is one of the very few white people who were willing to stand between the oppressed and the oppressors. I absolutely question the effect of a few hundred extra whites doing anything to change history for the betterment of black and brown people, considering the national voting patterns since I was born in the 90s, and my personal and lived experience living in kentucky since 1998 until 2021. I grew up in poverty and set up for failure because of my white christan nationalist father. I even ate it up until I was like 13 and my frontal lobe started developing, but even I could turn out to be a leftist. What are white peoples excuses that aren't leftists yet?

    Too many white people want all of those policies back to this day. Too many white people voted for it in 2024. The "silent majority" of white people need to stop staying silent while black and brown people keep dying on the streets. Remember BLM? The white people thought it was enough to put a black picture as an avatar on instagram, but those people weren't marching in Louisville for Brianna Taylor. White people need to hold white people accountable instead of letting black and brown people do all the speaking.

    It wasn't until two white people died that the country is willing to start a civil war. The silent white majority finally woke up hopefully. I hope it wasn't too late for black and brown peoples' sake, because we all know White people will continue on in this country no matter what. History has shown they are willing to commit a genocide against the natives. They'll bring over slaves, start a civil war to keep their slaves, and when they lost that the next generations of white people gave them the freedom to be subjected to the worse imprisonment rate in the entire world in prisons where their work sets them free. They'll even launch nukes.

    All of that just to stay on this plot of land, but what about the black and brown people—those whites aren't fighting to keep them here ya know?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Viola Liuzzo

    Killed by the Klan, but the government helped justify it. Did the same kind of shit they are doing to Renee Good.

    ICE is just formally state sponsored Klan. The Venn diagram of cops and Klan approaches a circle at certain points of US history.

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