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.
Time to organize
not a slogan, Do it. do you have a group that’s active? go to protests, set up communication channels? skill/resource libraries? work with local communities and are in contact with other groups in a coalition? go to town hall to bully local government to do it’s job? learn rapid response, de-escalation, civil disobedience? regular meetings? getting armed?
I don’t mean to sound pedantic or gatekeepy, just list of things that should be under the concept of “organizing”.
I don’t mean it as a direct attack or accusations, just using your comments as a springboard that “organizing” is genuine work, extremely important work, but work non the less.
I’m in an organized group like that rn. and can vouch that “organizing” is work, am unemployed and have never been more busy in my life. (However obviously, if you have less time/capacity, do what you can)
I don’t want the concept of “organizing” to be a vague slogan, but a specific set of action points.