Discussion
"And then there's the new video of Pretti's killing in which the last shreds of the official government story are, well, shredded.
There's no 'riot.' There aren't enough people on the sidewalk for a decent hockey fight. An ICE officer walks right up to Pretti and initiates the violence. Then he and his colleagues swarm Pretti, who vanishes below a flurry of punches and kicks while onlookers plead with his attackers."
"And then five shots ring out, a pause, and then five more. Presumably, Pretti at least was incapacitated by the first volley, which means the second burst was meant to do what? Kill a dead man? Intimidate the witnesses? Everything that the ICE agents do in that video can arguably be interpreted as planned and purposeful. (Remember what I said about malice aforethought?)"
"If all of them want to say that they didn't recognize Pretti as the guy who'd already had his ribs broken in an earlier encounter with federal agents, let them say it under oath in a courtroom as part of their defense against a charge of murder in the first degree. Maybe they'll be loosened up for a plea bargain by then."
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I'm thinking today of folks bringing guns and other weapons — knives, hockey sticks, flag poles — to a protest.
Then smashing windows, breaking glass (defecating and urinating on floors and on a desk).
Being warned repeatedly by law officials not to climb through a smashed window, and still climbing through that window and being shot.
Defying law and order and authority.
Ignoring law and order and authority.
Trampling on law and order and authority.
And now THE SAME PEOPLE who clapped and cheered when all that happened want to convince us that a man who was just executed publicly by federal agents deserved his death because he
Brought a gun (which he never touched) to a protest.
Smashed a car light days before he was murdered.
Had his rib broken by masked thugs who pounced on him when he did that.
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