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ICE Execution in Minneapolis

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I don’t know how America survives this level of willful, institutionalized savagery. By most counts, ICE pumped ten bullets into a ICU nurse, Alex Pretti, for the crime of filming them and trying to intercede on behalf of a woman they had shoved to the pavement. The evidence of the execution is clear cut. ICE has not just gunned down an innocent man, but is also successfully terminating what remained of the rule of law in the US. A sampling of the evidence:

Her fear is not paranoia:

More efforts to document what happened as part of an emergency legal filing:

Update 8:00 AM EST. Lead story in the Financial Times, with no VPN to pretend I am in the US:

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I hope this outrage rouses enough people to stand up to this violence. Trump targeted Minneapolis out of pique (Mike Walz), perhaps a desire to punish the city for its effective George Floyd protests, but most of all, that its police force is small enough that he could muster enough ICE goons to outnumber them. ICE is not yet big enough to subdue the US. There is a window for action that is closing. Can enough citizens muster the courage and organization to thwart Trump’s clear intent to use brutality to mow down all opposition?

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  1. urdsama

    The equally scary part is the number of people on social media supporting ICE and the Administration’s response. Ironically, these are the same people that vocally supported Rittenhouse and the January 6th protesters. Especially their right to carry firearms…

    I think rank political tribalism will be the end of the US.

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    2. Balan Aroxdale

      The equally scary part is the number of people on social media supporting ICE and the Administration’s response.

      Paid political propaganda does not public content make. Most commentators should be able to spot an astroturfed destabilization operation by now, and I think many in the public can smell a rat as well.

      By the numbers, there are thousands of people out on the street in mass anti-ICE protests. The ICE patrols are facing constant public opposition to the point of now repeatedly shooting them. There’s no-one on the other side holding rallies standing up for all this. No counter-gang block.

      The political class is of course, vacillating. No doubt the usual cadres of spooks, tech-bros, and oligarchs are egging on escalation and chaos, offering plum donations and pliable media in exchange for keeping this going. That the Democrats in general, and Waltz and Frey in particular, have not moved to end this chaos is in my mind a worse indictment than the Trump admin’s push to keep it going.

      But the people, the institutions, and a good chunk of the middle political layers have not signed up to see suburban moms and military veterans having their heads blown off by ‘sandbox’ Black and Tans in the middle of Middle America. I don’t see the other law enforcement bodies being overly keen to back the desert camo blue here. I think most of the Trump aligned academics, businessmen, indeed the Republicans, are keeping quiet or eyeing the exits.

      The original Black and Tans were very similar to ICE. Motley crews of former military and para-military men, equipped eclectically with surplus military gear from the latest military misadventure. Poorly trained, ill-disciplined, with a reputation for brutality and reprisal. In forming them the British government was warned it had “liberated forces which it is not at present able to dominate”. Their various outrages did more than any other element to undermine public trust in law and order and ultimately the British state in Ireland.
      But whereas the Black and Tans were formed in response to a rebellion, ICE have gone even beyond this and are provoking a rebellion to justify their own formation. There was some talk of ‘immigration policy’ at one point, but that’s long forgotten by now.

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  2. Ignacio

    Fascism is testing US waters to check if it can stick around. I feel sorry for the killed man, for the Minnesota people and USians in general. I hope you can be strong and resist for the sake of humanity.

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  4. Ben Panga

    This seems like the moment.

    If it doesn’t stop (or get stopped) now, it’s not stopping.

    Peace and love to my US brothers and sisters.

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    1. pjay

      “This seems like the moment” was exactly what I was thinking last night as I watched the videos of this incident. We will see if there is ANY integrity or spine left in Congress, if there are ANY real defenders of the Constitution in the media or in (local) law enforcement, or ANY actual defenders of liberty among so-called conservatives or Republicans.

      I spent eight years criticizing liberals for throwing the F-word around indiscriminately. Now it’s time to start yelling it loudly. We already know that a powerful segment of the billionaire class welcomes such an army of fascistic thugs; it fits well with their vision our neo-feudal future. A crucial question, I think, is whether there are enough of our elite left who still believe in their rhetoric about this country and will use their resources to stop it. Since they have managed to weaken and de-legitimate most of the institutions that were suppose to protect us, this won’t be easy.

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  6. ambrit

    Agents of the Organs of State Security fired the first shots.
    Now America will learn what the people in countries ‘occupied’ by the Neo-liberal West found out the hard way. Being vassals to the Empire of the Oligarchs is always hard. I never suspected that neo-colonialism would manifest itself primarily in the Homeland. Silly me.
    Stay safe, maintain integrity.

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