Here’s a timeline of the murder of Alex Jeffrey Pretti.

Please consider Timeline: A Moment-by-Moment Look at the Shooting of Alex Pretti

Federal agents shot and killed a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, at about 9 a.m. Central time on Saturday morning. A video shared with The New York Times by a witness and her lawyer, as well as other video footage posted on social media, documents the violent scene, where agents appear to fire at least 10 shots in a span of five seconds.

The footage seems to contradict the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the encounter, which the agency said began after an individual armed with a handgun approached the federal agents with the intent to “massacre” them.

[Mish: Let’s stop the bullshit, NYT. The footage does not “seem” to contradict the Administration’s lies, it 100 percent contradicts the administration’s lies. Even the WSJ got this correct on its font page: Videos Contradict U.S. Account of Minneapolis Shooting by Federal Agents]

The agent in the gray coat removes the weapon from the scene. It matches the profile of a gun that D.H.S. says belonged to Mr. Pretti. Then, while Mr. Pretti is on his knees and restrained, the agent standing directly above him appears to fire one shot at Mr. Pretti at close range. He immediately fires three additional shots.

The diagram below shows the position of the agents, Mr. Pretti and other civilians at this moment.

[Mish: Many timestamped images in the article, then a display of the image in the upper right of my lead image.]

Several agents have moved away from Mr. Pretti, who has collapsed. Another agent — the same one who shoved the civilians into the street and pepper-sprayed Mr. Pretti — unholsters his gun and fires at Mr. Pretti. The first agent also fires additional shots. Together, they fire six more shots at Mr. Pretti while he lies motionless on the ground.

At least 10 shots appear to have been fired within five seconds. By the moment of the 10th shot, the agent who moved away with the weapon has crossed the street.

The Blatant Administration Lies

• Stephen Miller, President Trump’s homeland security adviser, called the victim, Alex Pretti, who was filming Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis, a “domestic terrorist.”
• The Department of Homeland Security said an agent had fired “defensive shots” because he was “fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers.”
• Gregory Bovino, a top Border Patrol official leading the crackdown in Minneapolis, said at a news conference on Saturday that Mr. Pretti “had two loaded magazines,” and appeared to want to do “maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.”
• On Sunday, Trump said Democrats were to blame for the killings, not federal agents.

Lies, Lies, and Lies. The Administration knows nothing but lies.

To justify an increasingly violent crackdown, the pattern of the Trump Administration is to immediately go on the offensive, demonize the victim, distort the facts, and tell lies that only MAGA clowns wearing TWS hats can justify.

The official statement said Mr. Pretti “approached” officers with handgun and the “armed suspect violently resisted” when officials tried to disarm him.

Lies, Lies, Lies

And everyone can see it (except, of course, for the racists and MAGA clowns blind to anything that goes against what their cult leader says).

In November, a federal judge found that Mr. Bovino had lied multiple times about federal agents’ use of force during immigration enforcement operations in Chicago.

The Hypocrites

The Trump administration has argued strongly for the right to carry guns. A Justice Department suit filed in December against the U.S. Virgin Islands over its gun permitting process, for example, noted that “law-abiding citizens” have “a fundamental right to ‘carry handguns publicly for self-defense.’”

Jordan Levine, who runs an online gun rights advocacy company called A Better Way 2A, said that “what happened in Minneapolis shows that ICE will treat the mere presence of a legal firearm as justification for lethal force. Carrying a gun is not a crime, yet it was readily used as proof of dangerous intent once Alex Pretti was dead and unable to contest that narrative.”

Top Republicans Rail Against the Second Amendment Right to Carry Guns

Yesterday, I commented Top Republicans Rail Against the Second Amendment Right to Carry Guns

Was presumption of guilt for carrying a gun, by Republicans, on your bingo card?

Trump’s ICE Waterloo

Murdering Renee Nicole Good, a lesbian woman, was easier to brush away.

“A domestic terrorist, really?” Somehow, the Administration got away with that obvious lie.

But murdering a white male who was legally carrying a gun, assisting a woman who was pepper-sprayed, the man then shot in the back 10 times by two different ICE officers was the line in the sand.

All but the most brain dead of Trump’s supporters are disturbed by this, and of course, the administration’s lies to cover it up.

Article posted with permission from Mish Talk