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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      It’s neoconfederates come to finish the job because the Civil War never fixed the core issue and just let it sulk until America no longer had a shared reality.

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      Some Dems are in favor of ICE, is the government V Americans. it always was the top vs the bottom, just now law enforcement is executing white people, not just minorities.

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      They are MAGA. The Republican Party is dead, that was just the larval stage, before it morphed into its final form - MAGA. We should only refer to the Republican Party from a historical or scholarly perspective.

      They are ALL MAGA now.

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        Things I thought I’d never say: I miss the Republicans of the eighties. They were all a mix of absolute cowards, grifters, and idiots, but the new MAGA party that has replaced them manages to consistently be even worse.

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            Yep we must resist the urge to revisit even recent neocons like Bush II as “good old days conservatives” because they were absolutely monsters and it makes it seem like Democratic opposition at the time was just silly fearmongering. It was not. We are making real estate deals with the country that did 9/11 and we destabilized two other countries for oil and political points, under the guise of 9/11 retribution. That’s like getting coffee with your wife’s rapist after burning down some other guy’s house in anger over it.

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            Exactly this. There have never been any “good conservatives”, they’ve always been like this – now they’ve just gotten more power

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          The difference was that the 80s Republican politicians still loved America. MAGA politicians are all Sociopathic Oligarchs or their flunkies, and they hate America, and ONLY see it as a fat, rich, lazy target to be ruthlessly exploited in every possible way.

          80s Republicans were narcissistic patriots, MAGAs are narcissistic and corrupt traitors, rapists, pedophiles, racists, ignorant, incompetent and CRIMINALS.

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            The difference was that the 80s Republican politicians still loved America.

            Sorry but that’s just not true. The heritage foundation has never loved america and has never produced an american-loving republican, only capitalism and capital-loving republicans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_Doctrine#Origin_and_advocates https://www.heritage.org/conservatism/commentary/reagan-and-heritage-unique-partnership

            With the arrival of the Reagan administration, The Heritage Foundation and other conservative foreign policy think tanks saw a political opportunity to significantly expand Carter’s Afghanistan policy into a more global “doctrine”, including U.S. support to anti-communist resistance movements in Soviet-allied nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. According to political analysts Thomas Bodenheimer and Robert Gould, “it was the Heritage Foundation that translated theory into concrete policy. Heritage targeted nine nations for regime change: Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Iran, Laos, Libya, Nicaragua, and Vietnam”.

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                Umm… no. People were killed, white people just didn’t care because the people dying weren’t white and therefore it wasn’t on the news. Republicans were killing citizens on the street in the name of fighting drugs and family values by killing black and brown people with hiv, crack and making abortions illegal.

                This is well-known history and honestly to forget it is either a deliberate choice at worse or gross negligence at best.

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                  White people would have cared more, they just didn’t know about it because video cameras were so rare back then. That’s why the Rodney King case was such a big deal. For the first time, we saw how cops really treated black suspects.

                  A few years later it was driven home during the OJ trial, when we heard about even more systemic abuses by the LAPD, leading to a jury who simply didn’t trust any police testimony due to decades of abuse. White Americans were finally understanding that cops weren’t just ignoring blacks, they were systematically targeting them for abuse.

                  Then smartphones came along and definitively proved it across the entire country.

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                    White people would have cared more

                    There are some good apples among white people that’s unquestionable. John Brown is one of the very few white people who were willing to stand between the oppressed and the oppressors. I absolutely question the effect of a few hundred extra whites doing anything to change history for the betterment of black and brown people, considering the national voting patterns since I was born in the 90s, and my personal and lived experience living in kentucky since 1998 until 2021. I grew up in poverty and set up for failure because of my white christan nationalist father. I even ate it up until I was like 13 and my frontal lobe started developing, but even I could turn out to be a leftist. What are white peoples excuses that aren’t leftists yet?

                    Too many white people want all of those policies back to this day. Too many white people voted for it in 2024. The “silent majority” of white people need to stop staying silent while black and brown people keep dying on the streets. Remember BLM? The white people thought it was enough to put a black picture as an avatar on instagram, but those people weren’t marching in Louisville for Brianna Taylor. White people need to hold white people accountable instead of letting black and brown people do all the speaking.

                    It wasn’t until two white people died that the country is willing to start a civil war. The silent white majority finally woke up hopefully. I hope it wasn’t too late for black and brown peoples’ sake, because we all know White people will continue on in this country no matter what. History has shown they are willing to commit a genocide against the natives. They’ll bring over slaves, start a civil war to keep their slaves, and when they lost that the next generations of white people gave them the freedom to be subjected to the worse imprisonment rate in the entire world in prisons where their work sets them free. They’ll even launch nukes.

                    All of that just to stay on this plot of land, but what about the black and brown people—those whites aren’t fighting to keep them here ya know?