Not sure why the Minnesota Ice and Run thread got locked by the originator but.....

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The DHS surge in Minneapolis and other places is simply a beta test for next generation domestic surveillance tools. 

Patriot act 2.0 powered by AI

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What is clear to see , is that Walz, and all the Minnesota Dems are up to their necks in all the fraud, and they are fighting for their lives. 

All the Somalis need fucking off, and every Dem state needs to be gone through , these fuckers are robbing everyone blind, and then having the audacity to steal elections with people paid for with your own money. 

The fact Dems will vote every time against Voter ID shows you what a bunch of cunts they are, and if you think that isnt happening, you are cunt as well. 

 

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ToolMaker wrote:
ABC news and multiple other news stationsReport: Encrypted chats reveal protesters tracked ICE before Alex Pretti's death in MNby CHARLOTTE HAZARD | The National...

ABC news and multiple other news stations

Report: Encrypted chats reveal protesters tracked ICE before Alex Pretti's death in MN

by CHARLOTTE HAZARD | The National News Desk

Mon, January 26, 2026 at 6:51 AM

Updated Mon, January 26, 2026 at 7:13 PM

Thanks Tool, ABC was pointing to Fox's article which had some group chat images included. As for 66's claim about Flanagan being directly involved, there's no mention about her in either article so I'm still curious where that "intel" is coming from.

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ToolMaker wrote:
You totally missed the point. The point is you keep trying to make this guy into some sort of saint that has zero responsibility here. It's...

You totally missed the point. The point is you keep trying to make this guy into some sort of saint that has zero responsibility here. It's just as easy to throw out a scenario where he has all the responsibility. Most likely, it's something in-between. Like I've been saying all along. The events of the day led to a tragedy that nobody wanted to happen. Those agitators are there for one reason. To disrupt ICE's ability to do their job to the point they are not successful. They disrupted the operation to the point that created the situation where someone got killed. It's a terrible tragedy. If they weren't there agitating, that career agitator would be alive today.

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Ya, I expect ICE to not use lethal force in a non lethal situation even if someone is a career agitator. Blowing whistles and filming is...

Ya, I expect ICE to not use lethal force in a non lethal situation even if someone is a career agitator. Blowing whistles and filming is a first amendment right. The responsibility here lies solely with ICE.

ToolMaker wrote:
Yo Peddy,You're going to have to come up with a whole new narrative, wasn't even ICE that shot the guy,"A new government report sent to Congress...

Yo Peddy,

You're going to have to come up with a whole new narrative, wasn't even ICE that shot the guy,

"A new government report sent to Congress reveals two DHS agents discharged their weapons during a struggle as Pretti resisted arrest."

Ok it was DHS agents. Nothing has changed besides that. New narrative complete 👍

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saying the quiet part out loud again.  they want all non-whites gone. 

saying the quiet part out loud again.  they want all non-whites gone.

 

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Gee wiz, I never saw that coming from you of all people. Not. 
Like water off of a ducks back. Call me a nazi and a white supremest while you’re at it. 
I guess the majority of Americans are racist, or is it just me because you don’t like the truths I’m telling?

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SKlein wrote:
Thanks Tool, ABC was pointing to Fox's article which had some group chat images included. As for 66's claim about Flanagan being directly involved, there's no...

Thanks Tool, ABC was pointing to Fox's article which had some group chat images included. As for 66's claim about Flanagan being directly involved, there's no mention about her in either article so I'm still curious where that "intel" is coming from.

Do you now at least acknowledge there is MN government involved in the coordination and direction of the protestors (pawns)? I think you are splitting hairs here. 

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I'd expect career agitators to not interfere with an active law enforcement operation, and so much so that they create a situation that someone gets killed...

I'd expect career agitators to not interfere with an active law enforcement operation, and so much so that they create a situation that someone gets killed. Just the week before, one of your career agitators tried to drive her car away with zero regard that Law Enforcement Officer was in front of the car. It's just a good thing he was able to get out of the way with minimal injury. However, it created a situation that an Officer had to make a split second decision is this person trying to kill me and defended himself with gun fire. Now, you'd think the career agitators would learn that their actions result in LEOs having to pull out their guns, so what do they do? More of the same. Blind people saw this ending long before it happened.

Had Miss Good been successful and actually ran over the officer, Do you blame just Miss Good? her partner goading her on to drive over the officer? All the other agitators creating a mob mentality? The local government officials for organizing these events? And for what? To prevent ICE from apprehending criminals.

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Walz has sent the Nation Guard in to act as crowd control  and allow the Protesters to protest and ICE to  do ICE things.  Now  maybe...

Walz has sent the Nation Guard in to act as crowd control  and allow the Protesters to protest and ICE to  do ICE things.  Now  maybe ICE can do something to help  calm things down. 

 

  Tackling somebody who is just video taping or blowing a whistle is not going to calm things down.  It is not the action of a Professional it is the reaction a kid on the playground would have.

 

   Maybe the protesters should just wear MAGA hats and use flag poles with the US flag on them to beat the ICE agents instead of blowing a whistle or filming them, then they can get a pardon and  be home with their family after .    

 

 If only they had acted like these fine upstanding citizens who were just site seeing on Jan 6th.  they would both be alive

Rioters maced, trampled Capitol officers: New documents show depth of Jan. 6  attack | FOX 29 Philadelphia Notice how these fine tourists are greeting Police with a refreshing shower of Pepper or bear spray. 

Jan. 6 rioter who assaulted officer with flagpole sentenced to 4 years in  prison

Peter Stager beat Capitol Police Officer with American Flag

And this fine American was nice enough to give the police a close up view of his flag pole. as shown above on his way for a leisurely  tour of the capital.  

 

Instead they acted like violent domestic terrorists as shown in these photos below. 

 

Alex Pretti was holding a phone, not a gun. His crime? Trying to help a  lady that agents shoved to the ground. So they killed him. He worked at the  ICU atKilling of Renée Good - Wikipedia How plastic whistles are becoming an anti-ICE resistance tool in Chicago |  Reuters

MAGA provocateurs want whistles used by Minnesota protesters to be  'considered a violent weapon' | The Independent

Notice the woman above bravely brandishing her weapons. A car and whistle.  What an idiot, to think she could get away with such behavior in the US. 

Its so sad that people are arguing over the use of deadly force being totally justified by ICE. Yet it was not at all justified for capital Police to have shot a single person .While arguing that Trump had nothing to do with them storming the Capital after he told them to march to the capital and that it would be wild.  And accuse Waltz is working together with protesters because democrats have been against the way ICE is doing stuff and told people ways they could peacefully help and protest. 

 

 Funny how blinded by partisan BS people are that they are seeing things the way they are. 

 

 While I can kind of understand how they can justify the shooting of Good, its still something that would have been safer to have let her drive away.  Just because the standard of fearing for your life can be meet, doesn't mean its the appropriate action or the action that's in Your or the publics best interest. 

 

 Should Capital Police have shot everybody who attacked a police officer on Jan 6th? Using the standards applied to the ICE shootings they could have shot 1000's of people and been justified right? The same fear for their life was very likely present in the Capital police officers minds . If You do not think they would have been justified in shooting and killing all those attackers , but You are arguing that  the ICE shooting were totally clean shootings, take a minute and think about it. How hypocritical it is. How it all comes down to politics and how wrong that is. 

 

Maybe they could have been like some of these protesters who also were not shot. That were at a protest against Obama armed  outside a building he was making a speech at.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna32457652

obama protest

 

I've always thought its a bad idea to do something like this , that it could get You shot.  Carrying a concealed weapon and NOT waving it around is different in my opinion .  Perhaps Pretti felt like a precedent had been set as it being safe to have a gun as long as You were not  using it  to make threats. 

 

 I really should just stay away from the darkness of non moto, yet I keep coming back.  Hopefully I can work on self control and stay in  the more positive MOTO related area more often. 

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How funny you are. You don't even see the irony that Walz has to bring in the NG to keep the agitators away from ICE. Because...

How funny you are. You don't even see the irony that Walz has to bring in the NG to keep the agitators away from ICE. Because they're fuckin agitators. What are those whistles for anyway?

TM

NO SHIT ,  Its also to keep ICE away from them . To stop ICE from doing something they are not trained to do. Interact with protesters.  Its to keep 2 parties that are unhappy with each other apart.    No matter how we got here, a neutral acting 3rd party is a good start to cool things down. 

 

 How many protests have there been in just this last year for all kinds of reasons? How many people have been killed at other protests by the law enforcement  or assaulted for blowing a whistle?  

 

Watch the news reports on the interactions of the guard and protesters.  I get it that there will always be people who are just there to be a pain in the ass and cause trouble. 

 

 The whistles are to bring attention to whatever is happening.  To get more eyes on what is happening.  Its the ICE agents who have taken it as a threat and assaulted protesters.   In the example that CNN reported , the agents were already chasing their targets and the targets  knew where ICE was as indicated by the way in which they ran away from them. IE not towards them. When there is an arrests being made or target running. Its not to alert the target. Its to get more people noticing what's going on. That could be taken as a warning for others to stay out of the way, to film or tape photos, or many other things.  Don't some police use whistles to alert people in a similar way ? 

 

 You tell me how a whistle has now become political and is doing anything beyond being loud and grabbing attention?   Oh my god, I just realized all those fans at the races with air horns and bells are really trying to distract the racers and they are not fans, they are attackers that should be arrested and prosecuted. 

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I'm all for getting dangerous criminals off our streets. They can remove dangerous criminals without the theatrics that they have been displaying. As I said before...

I'm all for getting dangerous criminals off our streets. They can remove dangerous criminals without the theatrics that they have been displaying. As I said before, do what Obama and Co did, they were good at it.

However, I don't think the majority of who they are aggressively targeting are dangerous, violent criminals.

"5% of People Detained By ICE Have Violent Convictions, 73% No Convictions"

https://www.cato.org/blog/5-ice-detainees-have-violent-convictions-73-n…

“They can remove dangerous criminals without the theatrics that they have been displaying.”


Without the theatrics???? The theatrics are only there because the left is orchestrating them. 

if the protesters stayed home… no theatrics! 

 

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Walz has sent the Nation Guard in to act as crowd control  and allow the Protesters to protest and ICE to  do ICE things.  Now  maybe...

Walz has sent the Nation Guard in to act as crowd control  and allow the Protesters to protest and ICE to  do ICE things.  Now  maybe ICE can do something to help  calm things down. 

 

  Tackling somebody who is just video taping or blowing a whistle is not going to calm things down.  It is not the action of a Professional it is the reaction a kid on the playground would have.

 

   Maybe the protesters should just wear MAGA hats and use flag poles with the US flag on them to beat the ICE agents instead of blowing a whistle or filming them, then they can get a pardon and  be home with their family after .    

 

 If only they had acted like these fine upstanding citizens who were just site seeing on Jan 6th.  they would both be alive

Rioters maced, trampled Capitol officers: New documents show depth of Jan. 6  attack | FOX 29 Philadelphia Notice how these fine tourists are greeting Police with a refreshing shower of Pepper or bear spray. 

Jan. 6 rioter who assaulted officer with flagpole sentenced to 4 years in  prison

Peter Stager beat Capitol Police Officer with American Flag

And this fine American was nice enough to give the police a close up view of his flag pole. as shown above on his way for a leisurely  tour of the capital.  

 

Instead they acted like violent domestic terrorists as shown in these photos below. 

 

Alex Pretti was holding a phone, not a gun. His crime? Trying to help a  lady that agents shoved to the ground. So they killed him. He worked at the  ICU atKilling of Renée Good - Wikipedia How plastic whistles are becoming an anti-ICE resistance tool in Chicago |  Reuters

MAGA provocateurs want whistles used by Minnesota protesters to be  'considered a violent weapon' | The Independent

Notice the woman above bravely brandishing her weapons. A car and whistle.  What an idiot, to think she could get away with such behavior in the US. 

Its so sad that people are arguing over the use of deadly force being totally justified by ICE. Yet it was not at all justified for capital Police to have shot a single person .While arguing that Trump had nothing to do with them storming the Capital after he told them to march to the capital and that it would be wild.  And accuse Waltz is working together with protesters because democrats have been against the way ICE is doing stuff and told people ways they could peacefully help and protest. 

 

 Funny how blinded by partisan BS people are that they are seeing things the way they are. 

 

 While I can kind of understand how they can justify the shooting of Good, its still something that would have been safer to have let her drive away.  Just because the standard of fearing for your life can be meet, doesn't mean its the appropriate action or the action that's in Your or the publics best interest. 

 

 Should Capital Police have shot everybody who attacked a police officer on Jan 6th? Using the standards applied to the ICE shootings they could have shot 1000's of people and been justified right? The same fear for their life was very likely present in the Capital police officers minds . If You do not think they would have been justified in shooting and killing all those attackers , but You are arguing that  the ICE shooting were totally clean shootings, take a minute and think about it. How hypocritical it is. How it all comes down to politics and how wrong that is. 

 

Maybe they could have been like some of these protesters who also were not shot. That were at a protest against Obama armed  outside a building he was making a speech at.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna32457652

obama protest

 

I've always thought its a bad idea to do something like this , that it could get You shot.  Carrying a concealed weapon and NOT waving it around is different in my opinion .  Perhaps Pretti felt like a precedent had been set as it being safe to have a gun as long as You were not  using it  to make threats. 

 

 I really should just stay away from the darkness of non moto, yet I keep coming back.  Hopefully I can work on self control and stay in  the more positive MOTO related area more often. 

I guess if you're going to use this as a comparison, you should remember that the Capitol Police shot a protestor less than 6 hours after the Jan. 6 protest started. DHS/ICE protests had been going on for months before Renee Good was shot. 

Btw, I don't see these situations as legitimate comparisons, it's stupid to use Jan. 6 as analogous to what is happening in MN.

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If the last administration had not opened the border and let all these illegals in we would not be in this situation. The American people elected...

If the last administration had not opened the border and let all these illegals in we would not be in this situation. The American people elected President Trump to remove them. The majority of Americans want not just the worst of the worst removed. They want them all removed. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. 

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hey look everyone, a proud racist.  

 

so far @Gworm and @Spurdo agree, and feel safe agreeing on this forum.  

Funny, I don’t see any race listed. 

Maybe you can enlighten me with all of your imaginary wisdom. 

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R66 wrote:
Do you now at least acknowledge there is MN government involved in the coordination and direction of the protestors (pawns)? I think you are splitting hairs...

Do you now at least acknowledge there is MN government involved in the coordination and direction of the protestors (pawns)? I think you are splitting hairs here. 

No, I can't imagine you've read through these yourself yet, but neither Fox or ABC article calls out involvement by any member of MN government. 

I do believe groups of anti-ice have organized communications (there's images in one of the articles). That's also been known well before the MN raids were conducted though, they literally built apps for it.

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If wanting to live in reality is splitting hairs then I guess I'll continue to split hairs. Stay tuned. Have a great day! Take care!

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No, I can't imagine you've read through these yourself yet, but neither Fox or ABC article calls out involvement by any member of MN government. I do...

No, I can't imagine you've read through these yourself yet, but neither Fox or ABC article calls out involvement by any member of MN government. 

I do believe groups of anti-ice have organized communications (there's images in one of the articles). That's also been known well before the MN raids were conducted though, they literally built apps for it.

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If wanting to live in reality is splitting hairs then I guess I'll continue to split hairs. Stay tuned. Have a great day! Take care!

So what you are saying now is that it was well known, and you did not know it. Got it. How’s that crow tastin’?

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I cant help wonder what if someone made an app to track Gov Walz, and armed protestors blocked the street and threw bricks at him, would he call the police? Or......... 

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At no point have I said any of it was OK. People keep reading things into what I'm saying instead of reading what I'm saying. Once they...

At no point have I said any of it was OK. People keep reading things into what I'm saying instead of reading what I'm saying. 

Once they determined he was interfering there was no possibility for it to be legal carry at that point. A permit wouldn't have changed that. The presence of the gun and the interfering equates to unlawful carry. The lack of a permit just means it was also unlawful carry prior to that. 

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truck, you’re mixing 3 different things into one story and trying to call it law.Carry legality, alleged interference, and use of force aren’t the same thing.He...

truck, you’re mixing 3 different things into one story and trying to call it law.

Carry legality, alleged interference, and use of force aren’t the same thing.

He was tackled before they knew he was armed.
The weapon was removed.
He was on the ground.
He wasn’t holding a gun.
He was shot anyway.

So the permit argument is irrelevant to the moment that matters.

Even if he lacked a permit, that’s a licensing issue, not a lethal-force justification.
There’s no doctrine that says interference + firearm = lawful killing.

And saying you’re “not victim-blaming” while listing reasons why the victim caused his own outcome is victim-blaming, just repackaged as 'legal analysis'.

If the shooting was justified, argue the shooting justification.
If it wasn’t, stop laundering it through paperwork, hypotheticals, and retroactive fault finding.

That’s not legal reasoning, it’s narrative cover.

truck wrote:
Agree that the permit issue is irrelevant to the things that matter, I only mention it because of the irony in people who insist on nuisance...

Agree that the permit issue is irrelevant to the things that matter, I only mention it because of the irony in people who insist on nuisance laws like that now pretending like they don't matter. 

My thoughts are he did impede, the degree to which he did so is irrelevant. He did resist, the degree to which he did so is irrelevant. He did have a gun which agents became aware of before shooting him. The initial shot was likely negligent discharge. At this point the standard becomes whether or not the use of force was prompted by a reasonable belief that a threat of harm existed. That belief doesn't have to be correct, only reasonable. The officers firing don't even have to perceive the threat themselves and are allowed to rely on the report of other officers. If you're the agent, your argument is the person disobeyed an order, got between officers and someone they were trying to control, was resisting you, other officers were yelling gun gun gun over and over and a shot was fired. If 1 of 12 find it reasonable to fire at that point, these officers are going to walk. 

I'm not telling you what I think should happen, I have very mixed feelings on it, but I watched this play out over several years in Louisville with somewhat similar circumstances and I think people need to at least try to understand why this might play out in a way that is not satisfying at all. I take no joy in it. 

Fun fact. I worked with Breonna Taylor when she was killed. She was cool, good worker. Her old boyfriend that they were after was a problem and she would have been the first to tell you that. The one that shot at police was not. Nobody in this city cared for two months even though the issues were clear from the start and reported on. 

truck, I’ll be blunt.  There’s nothing "fun" about Breonna Taylor’s death and even using that sort of term is pretty disgusting.  And there’s also nothing funny about trying to paper over what happened to Alex Pretti with technicalities.

Here’s the deal based on available reporting

-Pretti was an ICU nurse, a lawful gun owner with a permit, and had no significant criminal record.
-Multiple videos and eyewitness accounts show him holding a phone and trying to help others before being pepper-sprayed and tackled, not brandishing a weapon.
-He was shot multiple times while pinned. Federal and local evidence contradict early claims that he was an immediate threat.

You’re right that officers can act on a reasonable belief of threat, but that belief has to be supported by what’s actually happening in the moment, not by convenient narratives or hypothetical checklists.

You start by saying 'permit issue is irrelevant' (which is good) because it is irrelevant to whether someone was a threat at the moment of the shooting. Then you pivot into trying to justify the outcome by stacking inferences (impeding, resisting, gun presence) that aren’t actually shown in the footage or eyewitness testimony.

And saying you’re 'not victim blaming' while framing everything in ways that shift fault onto the person shot to death is still victim blaming in (attempted) disguise.

If your point is 'use-of-force standards give officers some leeway', fine.  But don't pretend that the leeway extended is absolute. And don’t try to dress up post hoc justifications, especially when video and reporting raise real questions about what actually happened, as objective truth.

We can talk real factors, crowd control, escalation, how split-second decisions are judged.  Those are valid discussions.  
But we shouldn't skip straight to “well it’s reasonable because…” when what we actually saw doesn’t clearly match that standard.

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NO SHIT ,  Its also to keep ICE away from them . To stop ICE from doing something they are not trained to do. Interact with...

NO SHIT ,  Its also to keep ICE away from them . To stop ICE from doing something they are not trained to do. Interact with protesters.  Its to keep 2 parties that are unhappy with each other apart.    No matter how we got here, a neutral acting 3rd party is a good start to cool things down. 

 

 How many protests have there been in just this last year for all kinds of reasons? How many people have been killed at other protests by the law enforcement  or assaulted for blowing a whistle?  

 

Watch the news reports on the interactions of the guard and protesters.  I get it that there will always be people who are just there to be a pain in the ass and cause trouble. 

 

 The whistles are to bring attention to whatever is happening.  To get more eyes on what is happening.  Its the ICE agents who have taken it as a threat and assaulted protesters.   In the example that CNN reported , the agents were already chasing their targets and the targets  knew where ICE was as indicated by the way in which they ran away from them. IE not towards them. When there is an arrests being made or target running. Its not to alert the target. Its to get more people noticing what's going on. That could be taken as a warning for others to stay out of the way, to film or tape photos, or many other things.  Don't some police use whistles to alert people in a similar way ? 

 

 You tell me how a whistle has now become political and is doing anything beyond being loud and grabbing attention?   Oh my god, I just realized all those fans at the races with air horns and bells are really trying to distract the racers and they are not fans, they are attackers that should be arrested and prosecuted. 

ICE is enforcing federal immigration law passed by Congress and upheld by the Supreme Court.  The protesters are following and interfering with operations,  they are attacking ICE. 

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rbm33 wrote:
I cant help wonder what if someone made an app to track Gov Walz, and armed protestors blocked the street and threw bricks at him, would...

I cant help wonder what if someone made an app to track Gov Walz, and armed protestors blocked the street and threw bricks at him, would he call the police? Or......... 

Pretty sure it's legal to track private planes so maybe it'll be legal to track people? Throwing bricks definitely call the police

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NO SHIT ,  Its also to keep ICE away from them . To stop ICE from doing something they are not trained to do. Interact with...

NO SHIT ,  Its also to keep ICE away from them . To stop ICE from doing something they are not trained to do. Interact with protesters.  Its to keep 2 parties that are unhappy with each other apart.    No matter how we got here, a neutral acting 3rd party is a good start to cool things down. 

 

 How many protests have there been in just this last year for all kinds of reasons? How many people have been killed at other protests by the law enforcement  or assaulted for blowing a whistle?  

 

Watch the news reports on the interactions of the guard and protesters.  I get it that there will always be people who are just there to be a pain in the ass and cause trouble. 

 

 The whistles are to bring attention to whatever is happening.  To get more eyes on what is happening.  Its the ICE agents who have taken it as a threat and assaulted protesters.   In the example that CNN reported , the agents were already chasing their targets and the targets  knew where ICE was as indicated by the way in which they ran away from them. IE not towards them. When there is an arrests being made or target running. Its not to alert the target. Its to get more people noticing what's going on. That could be taken as a warning for others to stay out of the way, to film or tape photos, or many other things.  Don't some police use whistles to alert people in a similar way ? 

 

 You tell me how a whistle has now become political and is doing anything beyond being loud and grabbing attention?   Oh my god, I just realized all those fans at the races with air horns and bells are really trying to distract the racers and they are not fans, they are attackers that should be arrested and prosecuted. 

OldTech wrote:
ICE is enforcing federal immigration law passed by Congress and upheld by the Supreme Court.  The protesters are following and interfering with operations,  they are attacking...

ICE is enforcing federal immigration law passed by Congress and upheld by the Supreme Court.  The protesters are following and interfering with operations,  they are attacking ICE. 

I have a crazy idea. ICE should get video of these things happening . There is a thing called a bodycam that many police wear. If every ICE and DHS agent wore one they would have the proof to show that what they claim is true. 

 

So far of the people killed, I have yet to see anything that proves they were stopping ICE from doing their jobs. There are almost  always instigators in every protest these days. And I'm not arguing that isn't the case at all here.

 

But some of what has gotten us here is ICE,DHS and the president choosing to follow or NOT follow courts and legal processes.  In a perfect world all ICE agents would be going after the bad guys like their job asks of them. And not attacking people that blow a whistle or film them.  And protesters would respect the law and only act within the law to protest. 

 

 There are 1000's of protests in the US every year.  And many have turned somewhat violent with clashes between police and protesters. Like real clashes, not a whistle being blown, or a guy standing in front of the stream of pepper spray.  And its not a common thing for police to kill protesters is it?  Yes protesters are not all acting perfectly. But that's a normal thing in almost all protests. The law enforcement killing protesters is NOT NORMAL and I hope never is allowed to become normal. 

 

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1/28/2026 12:53pm Edited Date/Time 1/28/2026 12:57pm

Isn’t it interesting which side of the aisle seems to always revert back to personal attacks? 

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Walz has sent the Nation Guard in to act as crowd control  and allow the Protesters to protest and ICE to  do ICE things.  Now  maybe...

Walz has sent the Nation Guard in to act as crowd control  and allow the Protesters to protest and ICE to  do ICE things.  Now  maybe ICE can do something to help  calm things down. 

 

  Tackling somebody who is just video taping or blowing a whistle is not going to calm things down.  It is not the action of a Professional it is the reaction a kid on the playground would have.

 

   Maybe the protesters should just wear MAGA hats and use flag poles with the US flag on them to beat the ICE agents instead of blowing a whistle or filming them, then they can get a pardon and  be home with their family after .    

 

 If only they had acted like these fine upstanding citizens who were just site seeing on Jan 6th.  they would both be alive

Rioters maced, trampled Capitol officers: New documents show depth of Jan. 6  attack | FOX 29 Philadelphia Notice how these fine tourists are greeting Police with a refreshing shower of Pepper or bear spray. 

Jan. 6 rioter who assaulted officer with flagpole sentenced to 4 years in  prison

Peter Stager beat Capitol Police Officer with American Flag

And this fine American was nice enough to give the police a close up view of his flag pole. as shown above on his way for a leisurely  tour of the capital.  

 

Instead they acted like violent domestic terrorists as shown in these photos below. 

 

Alex Pretti was holding a phone, not a gun. His crime? Trying to help a  lady that agents shoved to the ground. So they killed him. He worked at the  ICU atKilling of Renée Good - Wikipedia How plastic whistles are becoming an anti-ICE resistance tool in Chicago |  Reuters

MAGA provocateurs want whistles used by Minnesota protesters to be  'considered a violent weapon' | The Independent

Notice the woman above bravely brandishing her weapons. A car and whistle.  What an idiot, to think she could get away with such behavior in the US. 

Its so sad that people are arguing over the use of deadly force being totally justified by ICE. Yet it was not at all justified for capital Police to have shot a single person .While arguing that Trump had nothing to do with them storming the Capital after he told them to march to the capital and that it would be wild.  And accuse Waltz is working together with protesters because democrats have been against the way ICE is doing stuff and told people ways they could peacefully help and protest. 

 

 Funny how blinded by partisan BS people are that they are seeing things the way they are. 

 

 While I can kind of understand how they can justify the shooting of Good, its still something that would have been safer to have let her drive away.  Just because the standard of fearing for your life can be meet, doesn't mean its the appropriate action or the action that's in Your or the publics best interest. 

 

 Should Capital Police have shot everybody who attacked a police officer on Jan 6th? Using the standards applied to the ICE shootings they could have shot 1000's of people and been justified right? The same fear for their life was very likely present in the Capital police officers minds . If You do not think they would have been justified in shooting and killing all those attackers , but You are arguing that  the ICE shooting were totally clean shootings, take a minute and think about it. How hypocritical it is. How it all comes down to politics and how wrong that is. 

 

Maybe they could have been like some of these protesters who also were not shot. That were at a protest against Obama armed  outside a building he was making a speech at.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna32457652

obama protest

 

I've always thought its a bad idea to do something like this , that it could get You shot.  Carrying a concealed weapon and NOT waving it around is different in my opinion .  Perhaps Pretti felt like a precedent had been set as it being safe to have a gun as long as You were not  using it  to make threats. 

 

 I really should just stay away from the darkness of non moto, yet I keep coming back.  Hopefully I can work on self control and stay in  the more positive MOTO related area more often. 

ToolMaker wrote:
How funny you are. You don't even see the irony that Walz has to bring in the NG to keep the agitators away from ICE. Because...

How funny you are. You don't even see the irony that Walz has to bring in the NG to keep the agitators away from ICE. Because they're fuckin agitators. What are those whistles for anyway?

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NO SHIT ,  Its also to keep ICE away from them . To stop ICE from doing something they are not trained to do. Interact with...

NO SHIT ,  Its also to keep ICE away from them . To stop ICE from doing something they are not trained to do. Interact with protesters.  Its to keep 2 parties that are unhappy with each other apart.    No matter how we got here, a neutral acting 3rd party is a good start to cool things down. 

 

 How many protests have there been in just this last year for all kinds of reasons? How many people have been killed at other protests by the law enforcement  or assaulted for blowing a whistle?  

 

Watch the news reports on the interactions of the guard and protesters.  I get it that there will always be people who are just there to be a pain in the ass and cause trouble. 

 

 The whistles are to bring attention to whatever is happening.  To get more eyes on what is happening.  Its the ICE agents who have taken it as a threat and assaulted protesters.   In the example that CNN reported , the agents were already chasing their targets and the targets  knew where ICE was as indicated by the way in which they ran away from them. IE not towards them. When there is an arrests being made or target running. Its not to alert the target. Its to get more people noticing what's going on. That could be taken as a warning for others to stay out of the way, to film or tape photos, or many other things.  Don't some police use whistles to alert people in a similar way ? 

 

 You tell me how a whistle has now become political and is doing anything beyond being loud and grabbing attention?   Oh my god, I just realized all those fans at the races with air horns and bells are really trying to distract the racers and they are not fans, they are attackers that should be arrested and prosecuted. 

"NO SHIT ,  Its also to keep ICE away from them . To stop ICE from doing something they are not trained to do. Interact with protesters.  Its to keep 2 parties that are unhappy with each other apart.    No matter how we got here, a neutral acting 3rd party is a good start to cool things down. "

WTF are you saying? ICE is not following them around. Did you buy that idea from the village idiot? And National Guard is a 4th party. you already have DHS trying to keep the agitators away. Now you need the National Guard to keep the agitators away from DHS that's trying to keep them away from ICE and you're trying to say it's to keep ICE away from the agitators. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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So if it's OK to throw water bottles and sandwiches at ICE agents, should the agitator that sprayed piss (just my guess what the liquid was)...

So if it's OK to throw water bottles and sandwiches at ICE agents, should the agitator that sprayed piss (just my guess what the liquid was) on Ilhan Omar be set free? He did it peacefully, was backing away after so he posed no danger (per the lefty description of danger level). I say lock his ass up. Will the lefties be consistent and say what he did was OK, just peaceful protest?

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I don't see anybody really arguing that throwing stuff is wrong and shouldn't be stopped.  The disagreement is with the level of force .  Throwing stuff is unfortunate a normal issue at protests that results in pepper spray and arrests NOT kicking the shit out of people and shooting them. 

 

 I haven't seen anybody argue against arresting people who are really assaulting ICE or DHS agents.  

 

  Blowing a whistle is not assault in my opinion and hard to argue that its obstruction in the ways that videos have shown it happening.  Its always  after the agent has made the target aware of them being a target. 

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ToolMaker wrote:

Nope, it's legit and people denying it only makes them look foolish

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All anyone is asking for is a source.  

ToolMaker wrote:
ABC news and multiple other news stationsReport: Encrypted chats reveal protesters tracked ICE before Alex Pretti's death in MNby CHARLOTTE HAZARD | The National...

ABC news and multiple other news stations

Report: Encrypted chats reveal protesters tracked ICE before Alex Pretti's death in MN

by CHARLOTTE HAZARD | The National News Desk

Mon, January 26, 2026 at 6:51 AM

Updated Mon, January 26, 2026 at 7:13 PM

I don't believe anyone is denying that a multi-state Signal chat existed letting people know ICE's whereabouts.  R66's claim was that it was being directed by the governor's office.  

Thank you for providing the link my man and being willing to discuss unlike R66 👍

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What is clear to see , is that Walz, and all the Minnesota Dems are up to their necks in all the fraud, and they are...

What is clear to see , is that Walz, and all the Minnesota Dems are up to their necks in all the fraud, and they are fighting for their lives. 

All the Somalis need fucking off, and every Dem state needs to be gone through , these fuckers are robbing everyone blind, and then having the audacity to steal elections with people paid for with your own money. 

The fact Dems will vote every time against Voter ID shows you what a bunch of cunts they are, and if you think that isnt happening, you are cunt as well. 

 

Can’t tell if this is satire or not 

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Anybody else think that at least three of the resistance supporters are the same person sitting in front of three screens with 3 different account names?

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No, I can't imagine you've read through these yourself yet, but neither Fox or ABC article calls out involvement by any member of MN government. I do...

No, I can't imagine you've read through these yourself yet, but neither Fox or ABC article calls out involvement by any member of MN government. 

I do believe groups of anti-ice have organized communications (there's images in one of the articles). That's also been known well before the MN raids were conducted though, they literally built apps for it.

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If wanting to live in reality is splitting hairs then I guess I'll continue to split hairs. Stay tuned. Have a great day! Take care!

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So what you are saying now is that it was well known, and you did not know it. Got it. How’s that crow tastin’?

It is well known, and we all knew that.  We were asking for a source for your claim that the Governor's Office was directing it.  

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Anybody else think that at least three of the resistance supporters are the same person sitting in front of three screens with 3 different account names?

No. 

This topic is moving fast and is wild!!!

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So what you are saying now is that it was well known, and you did not know it. Got it. How’s that crow tastin’?

What I'm saying is you've only provided baseless claims to this conversation to stir shit up. Tool did something you're incapable of, and actually provided sources. Be better. Have a great day! Take care!

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Isn’t it interesting which side of the aisle seems to always revert back to personal attacks? 

Didn’t you respond to someone’s comment a couple days ago, reverting to personal attacks on what you claimed they looked like? I wish I could make this up. 

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truck, you’re mixing 3 different things into one story and trying to call it law.Carry legality, alleged interference, and use of force aren’t the same thing.He...

truck, you’re mixing 3 different things into one story and trying to call it law.

Carry legality, alleged interference, and use of force aren’t the same thing.

He was tackled before they knew he was armed.
The weapon was removed.
He was on the ground.
He wasn’t holding a gun.
He was shot anyway.

So the permit argument is irrelevant to the moment that matters.

Even if he lacked a permit, that’s a licensing issue, not a lethal-force justification.
There’s no doctrine that says interference + firearm = lawful killing.

And saying you’re “not victim-blaming” while listing reasons why the victim caused his own outcome is victim-blaming, just repackaged as 'legal analysis'.

If the shooting was justified, argue the shooting justification.
If it wasn’t, stop laundering it through paperwork, hypotheticals, and retroactive fault finding.

That’s not legal reasoning, it’s narrative cover.

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Agree that the permit issue is irrelevant to the things that matter, I only mention it because of the irony in people who insist on nuisance...

Agree that the permit issue is irrelevant to the things that matter, I only mention it because of the irony in people who insist on nuisance laws like that now pretending like they don't matter. 

My thoughts are he did impede, the degree to which he did so is irrelevant. He did resist, the degree to which he did so is irrelevant. He did have a gun which agents became aware of before shooting him. The initial shot was likely negligent discharge. At this point the standard becomes whether or not the use of force was prompted by a reasonable belief that a threat of harm existed. That belief doesn't have to be correct, only reasonable. The officers firing don't even have to perceive the threat themselves and are allowed to rely on the report of other officers. If you're the agent, your argument is the person disobeyed an order, got between officers and someone they were trying to control, was resisting you, other officers were yelling gun gun gun over and over and a shot was fired. If 1 of 12 find it reasonable to fire at that point, these officers are going to walk. 

I'm not telling you what I think should happen, I have very mixed feelings on it, but I watched this play out over several years in Louisville with somewhat similar circumstances and I think people need to at least try to understand why this might play out in a way that is not satisfying at all. I take no joy in it. 

Fun fact. I worked with Breonna Taylor when she was killed. She was cool, good worker. Her old boyfriend that they were after was a problem and she would have been the first to tell you that. The one that shot at police was not. Nobody in this city cared for two months even though the issues were clear from the start and reported on. 

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truck, I’ll be blunt.  There’s nothing "fun" about Breonna Taylor’s death and even using that sort of term is pretty disgusting.  And there’s also nothing funny...

truck, I’ll be blunt.  There’s nothing "fun" about Breonna Taylor’s death and even using that sort of term is pretty disgusting.  And there’s also nothing funny about trying to paper over what happened to Alex Pretti with technicalities.

Here’s the deal based on available reporting

-Pretti was an ICU nurse, a lawful gun owner with a permit, and had no significant criminal record.
-Multiple videos and eyewitness accounts show him holding a phone and trying to help others before being pepper-sprayed and tackled, not brandishing a weapon.
-He was shot multiple times while pinned. Federal and local evidence contradict early claims that he was an immediate threat.

You’re right that officers can act on a reasonable belief of threat, but that belief has to be supported by what’s actually happening in the moment, not by convenient narratives or hypothetical checklists.

You start by saying 'permit issue is irrelevant' (which is good) because it is irrelevant to whether someone was a threat at the moment of the shooting. Then you pivot into trying to justify the outcome by stacking inferences (impeding, resisting, gun presence) that aren’t actually shown in the footage or eyewitness testimony.

And saying you’re 'not victim blaming' while framing everything in ways that shift fault onto the person shot to death is still victim blaming in (attempted) disguise.

If your point is 'use-of-force standards give officers some leeway', fine.  But don't pretend that the leeway extended is absolute. And don’t try to dress up post hoc justifications, especially when video and reporting raise real questions about what actually happened, as objective truth.

We can talk real factors, crowd control, escalation, how split-second decisions are judged.  Those are valid discussions.  
But we shouldn't skip straight to “well it’s reasonable because…” when what we actually saw doesn’t clearly match that standard.

I don't really disagree with anything you're saying, nothing about this is clear cut. If my approach to the victim is victim blaming in your eyes then so be it. 

That being said, I don't think the argument I laid out is some post hoc best effort at coming up with a story. I think that's likely what happened in the eyes of the agents that led them to firing, regardless of how consistent it is with the video analysis after the fact. 

I have no strong feelings either way as to whether I find that a reasonable justification, but I do think it's the most plausible explanation either way and is the argument they'll make to a jury where you only have to get one person to buy it. 

If you reject that explanation, do you think two officers at the same time just lost it and decided to execute him? I don't find that to be plausible. What's the alternative theory if not what I laid out? 

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