ICE misconduct megathread (Immigration "enforcement" in the US)

[The Brain]

The US is a write-off. Domestic policy: death squads. Foreign policy: attacking allies.

[crazy canuck]

The person ICE murdered

The man fatally shot by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis was Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a U.S. citizen with no criminal record, officials said.

Mr. Pretti, who was 37, was a registered nurse who worked in the intensive-care unit at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Minneapolis, according to interviews and public records, and lived in an apartment in Minneapolis a short drive away from where he was killed.

I suggest the cutsie thread title be changed

Edit: someone put together some of the victim's pictures

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DT6045sDZ3Z/?igsh=MWg5NGwyd3J1eWwwdg==

[crazy canuck]

I have watched the latest incidents from a few angles and this is very obviously another execution.

And an extremely dangerous one to his fellow agents as well. The agent claims to have been in fear of his life from an unarmed (they'd removed his gun) blind man (pepper sprayed from within inches of his eyes) on his knees, facing away. And HSA claims this was a counter-terrorism action.

The felons then fled the scene of the murder.

Yeah, they didn't even know he had a gun until they had him pinned on the ground. Shortly before executing him for the audacity of shielding a women from pepper spray.

[Maladict]

I suggest the cutsie thread title be changed

Agreed

[Syt]

I suggest the cutsie thread title be changed

Fair point

[crazy canuck]

Thanks

[Tamas]

I know I shouldn't be surprised, and I am not, but I am still finding it extraordinary that the FBI director and other senior government and federal leaders continue to completely ignore the well-documented reality and talk absolute and obvious falsehoods about the murder.

We keep crying about social media and such but trivially easy access to cameras and even more importantly to the sharing of recorded footage is, once again, instrumental in holding the ones in power to account.

If it wasn't for those recordings all we'd know now is the official narrative and eye witnesses (fellow protesters) disagreeing with it. No doubt there'd be a debate on this very forum on which one we should take at face value.

[frunk]

I know I shouldn't be surprised, and I am not, but I am still finding it extraordinary that the FBI director and other senior government and federal leaders continue to completely ignore the well-documented reality and talk absolute and obvious falsehoods about the murder.

We keep crying about social media and such but trivially easy access to cameras and even more importantly to the sharing of recorded footage is, once again, instrumental in holding the ones in power to account.

If it wasn't for those recordings all we'd know now is the official narrative and eye witnesses (fellow protesters) disagreeing with it. No doubt there'd be a debate on this very forum on which one we should take at face value.

Social media lets people ignore the obvious evidence in favor of either distractions from what is happening or by providing convenient narratives about the event rather than viewing and judging it themselves.

So I think it still bears a considerable responsibility.

[crazy canuck]

And before social media people were able to video things.

Social media allows the US government to spread its lies to its followers, who have no idea they are being lied to because that social media is their only source of information.

[Tamas]

Yeah we had no overwhelming propaganda through the media before social media, what the hell are you guys smoking. Fox News and that's not even a state one.

With social media people can connect and organise.

If that was so inconsequential like you claim, autocracies wouldn't be limiting access to it.