Someone invoked the Boston Massacre in A&N earlier today and I found that fitting.
How can anyone with eyes and a functioning brain (ostensibly, capable of making independent decisions) watch the multiple videos of different angles of the Goode & Pretti incidents and walk away thinking that the agents were acting in self-defense?
The polarized comments and laugh-reacts on social media are baffling.
I'm no bleeding heart, I don't consider myself a Democrat, I don't like engaging in team sports, but what the fuck? I never thought I would find myself under threat of possibly being accused of wokeness for my thoughts.
You just go with the *wrong* interpretation of events because your team said so?
Goode & Pretti were, at worst, annoying, whiny liberals. That does not justify summary execution.
These people seriously take puerile joy in the murder of those that disagree with them. Any ounce of compassion is faggy.
The same people who claim to care about muh guns every other election cycle, are glossing over the fact that Pretti was a legally carrying American. Holding it against him, even. He's clearly a domestic terrorist for exercising his First, Second, and Fourth Amendment rights.
Dude did not even brandish. He incidentally had his weapon while existing in public, in his city, recording a video of ICE. Numerous agents took him to the ground, one guy popped in to quickly take Pretti's pistol, and then the agents shot the man many times while he was being held down. In that order.
There are slightly longer videos out there, showing a little bit what happens before hand. I apologize, I'll archive and post in the thread later if I can find. He was standing and filming ICE presence in the street, an agent apparently takes issue with this, walks up to him angrily, they get into a verbal argument, more agents gather around, Pretti gets pepper sprayed, he staggers, ICE tackles him, and the rest unfolds. That is a literal play-by-play. There is no way to infer that Pretti went there with the intention of starting shit.
If you ever wanted a contemporary, real-time example of why we have 2A, this is it. When you have uniformed, masked government thugs, stopping randoms in public, saying, "Papers please," pouncing on citizens who they perceive to be looking at them the wrong way, detaining young children,
this is it.