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Alex Pretti, the ICU nurse who was shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent this weekend, suffered a broken rib during a previous encounter with federal officers, according to a report.

A week before his death, Pretti, 37, had a rib broken when a group of federal officers tackled him as he was protesting their detention of other people, sources told CNN.

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[–] ProfThadBach@lemmy.world 165 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I don't give a fuck if he had contact with them every fucking day for a year. He was murdered by a fucking fascist boot licker.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 141 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The point is that this indicates it may have been premeditated and he was targeted when they recognized him.

THAT is much worse than the shit show we already have.

[–] xorollo@leminal.space 49 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And is confirmation of many concerns of them cross correlating disparate databases in order to target individuals they have a vendetta against.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 21 points 3 days ago

An organization coordinating like that to target individuals for retaliation also seem to start to get into things like RICO.

And before some dumbass comes in here talking about "no because government"... The courts have removed qualified immunity for less in the past.

[–] SpicyTaint@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

I don't think fascist book licker is a strong enough term to convey what these individuals are. Something like "Nazi pedophile" might be better, even if it's just by association to their owners. They need to know who they truely are.

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 81 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

While Pretti’s name was known to federal agents, according to the CNN source, it is unclear if the new intake form was used to share his information.

“We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous,” Homan said.

Homan was sent to Minneapolis Tuesday by the president in an apparent effort to calm tensions in the state.

One video, taken in Maine and shared on social media last Friday, showed a federal agent recording a license plate of a woman watching their operations and telling her: “We have a nice little database and now you are considered a domestic terrorist.”

"There is NO database of ‘domestic terrorists’ run by DHS. We do of course monitor and investigate and refer all threats, assaults and obstruction of our officers to the appropriate law enforcement. Obstructing and assaulting law enforcement is a felony and a federal crime,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told CNN.

Way to side step the fucking point, Trish.

"We don't run the database. We just collect data that gets added to it and then use that database we helped create to target Americans who make the mistake of thinking their rights matter... It's run by Palantir."

[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

we’re going to make them famous

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[–] leadore@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago (1 children)

“We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous,” Homan said.

Wow. That is a direct threat to kill protesters. That's when we hear their names is when ICE kills them.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 14 points 3 days ago

And yet when we create a database of ICE agents, it's terrorism... Hmm...

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 20 points 3 days ago

"Had a confrontation" -> was unlawfully attacked.

[–] twistypencil@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

Sources, eh...

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

Let this be motive. Let one of the previous officers have been involved in the murder.

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Man who volunteered to observe ICE in action has had interactions with ICE while doing so. More news at 6

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago

Article said they had no record of it. They lie as they speak obviously.