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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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[–] BlackDragon@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Violence is always justified against fascists; it is self defense.

[–] discocactus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Violence without organization and strategy is counterproductive.

[–] Abundance114@lemmy.world -4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I may agree with you if over the past 5 years the term "fascist" hadn't been deluted more than a dive bar's $0.50 draft beer.

[–] BlackDragon@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

These are armed, masked government goons slaughtering civilians in the streets in a widespread terror campaign orchestrated by your criminal warlord president wherein various people labeled "undesirables" by your fascist government are disappeared to concentration camps and "deported" to prisons in other countries they have no connection to.

If Hell existed, you would meet all your German pals in the deepest, darkest, coldest layer.

[–] Abundance114@lemmy.world -2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

These are armed, masked government goons slaughtering civilians in the streets in a widespread terror campaign orchestrated by your criminal warlord president wherein various people labeled "undesirables" by your fascist government are disappeared to concentration camps and "deported" to prisons in other countries they have no connection to.

10/10 exaggeration of the circumstances; and the situations you're describing are being exasperated by the population illegal obstructing legal law enforcement operations. You're making it sound like Vlad the Impaler raised Hitler and his Nazi army from the dead and they're roaming the streets eating liberal babies.

Again, your time to fight the government is in the courts. If you want change, fight them in the courts. If you want violence and conflict then keep up the obstruction.

[–] BlackDragon@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

10/10 exaggeration of the circumstances;

There is no exaggeration, it is a sober recount of the facts of the situation we're currently in. This is how history will record this period, and you will be one of the many nameless fascists condemned by future generations.

[–] Abundance114@lemmy.world -3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

, it is a sober recount of the facts of the situation we're currently in.

It's not sober at all, it's an incredibly recent, heated, emotional take as per usual on these hyper political issues.

The emotional charge is more responsibility for these terrible occurances than policy or enforcement.

[–] BlackDragon@slrpnk.net 2 points 29 minutes ago (1 children)

incredibly recent,

I've been telling you that Trump is a fascist who wants to do this shit since 2015. Nothing recent about it, you're just a fascist.

[–] Abundance114@lemmy.world 0 points 11 minutes ago

you're just a fascist.

That word doesn't mean anything anymore, you've run it into the ground.