David Turnbull

And when is his trial date?

Aaron's summary quote in the text misses a pretty important bit: Bovino says that if you "delay" or "obstruct" law enforcement activities you're liable to get shot.

Alex Pretti was a customer of ACF. A member of our local cycling community. An integral community member serving as a nurse at our local VA hospital. Murdered while standing up to bullies in his city. Then falsely smeared in the media as an agitator with an agenda. Do not believe the lies. He could be any one of us standing against evil, but evil cannot get us all if we stand against it!

From Angry Catfish, independent bicycle shop in Minneapolis

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Imagine this in a trial.

Devastating first-hand witness to Alex Pretti's killing

Declaration filed in federal court:

"I don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him."

I do not just throw out praise for Senate Dem leadership, but this is good. It’s what we need now - Dems using their leverage where they’ve got it and refusing to budge. Make GOP own this lawless goon squad. No Dem votes for it. Support Dems who are fighting back now regardless of past beefs.

America update: hours after federal agents executed a Veterans Affairs nurse on camera, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon watched a film about the president's wife at the White House.

Fucking hell. They riddled him with bullets and then instead of helping the man they stood there counting the bullet wounds.

Statement from the family of Alex Pretti, Michael and Susan Pretti: We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Heartbroken. Help the Pretti family tell the truth about Alex. “The sickening lies told by the administration about our son are reprehensible and disgusting.” Help Alex’s family as they grieve. Share this.

If Abolish ICE gives you the vapors, just call it the Bill Kristol doctrine. Sounds moderate to me!

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

Another hero.

The final act of Alex Pretti’s life was to try and help a woman being physically assaulted by an ICE agent.

Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position,

Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.

DOJ lies.
DHS lies.
ICE lies.

That has been established. Do not repeat their claims as fact. Their claims are arguments or, often, misleading propaganda — when not outright lies.

They are seeking to make a case for their lawlessness (and to please Trump), not seeking to inform.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

A graphic comparing two quotes: "Fuckin' bitch." ICE agent after Renee Good was shot and killed two weeks ago. "Boo hoo." Federal agent after a man was shot and killed today.

These monsters are sick.

Just staggered by the complete moral void of not even *pretending* to wait for more information before pivoting to “the opponent of the state deserved it.” It is so insanely depraved. Soulless.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

It's time to abolish Trump’s ICE.

Thinking today about those men trying to ram our blockade and the inevitable truth that many of them are now ICE officers. How many of them are in Minneapolis right now? How many of them are playing out their violent fantasies? My guess is quite a few. This is who they are. Itching for a fight.

Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War

Reading this @polgreen.bsky.social column this morning and her description of an ICE officer’s gait is eerily similar. “His carriage was erect, his gaze fixed straight ahead…”

Thinking back to that day and those men who tried to push through. The thing is, without exception, you could see them coming from a block away. There was no doubt their intentions. You could see it in the way they walked and the looks in their eyes. They wanted a fight. Period.

I was part of a crew that blockaded an entrance gate at the first Trump inauguration. Mostly, folks yelled at us and moved on to another gate. But every few minutes there was a physical altercation with some guy trying to push his way through a blockade that was like 3-4 people deep.

Minnesotans are heroes.

Abolish ICE. Prosecute every one of them.

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now):

-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.

You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

And what are they learning? Experts on the formation of internal security services in authoritarian regimes point to a sense of impunity as a warning sign. Regime officials abuse their power when they know they will be protected, and even praised, for doing so. Over the course of weeks and months, we have seen images of DHS officials abusing American citizens and immigrants alike, including killing them. What we do not hear is regime officials calling for credible investigations into such abuses, or even expressing any concerns. Renee Good’s killer was announced innocent, and both Good and her wife was instead the subject of an investigation, a perversion of justice so obvious that an FBI agent and half-dozen career Department of Justice prosecutors assigned to Minnesota resigned.

What we are watching is a paramilitary force learning that they can kill with impunity, that the regime will smear the victim and defend them. Unless politicians and the legal system exerts accountability, it will not stop. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...

ICE is DETAINING WITNESSES. WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's pure police state tactics.

Not one fucking penny more for ICE ever.

The StarTribune live blog is paywall free:
- The man shot by federal agents this morning has died
- Several witnesses have already been transported to the Whipple building.
- ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but O’Hara refused, sources said.

www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...