A federal immigration officer has shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, drawing hundreds of protesters onto the frigidly cold streets in a city already shaken by another fatal shooting weeks earlier.
      • TheGoldenV@lemmy.world
        83·
        26 days ago

        Yeah, ICE ain’t leaving. TACO has no force compelling him to do so.

        I’d bet a fiver on a 3rd killing in the next couple weeks. As soon as the first person fights back it’ll be martial law.

        I really home the general strikes take off, but the movement needs leadership and direction. Fuck.

          • SabinStargem@lemmy.todayEnglish
            10·
            26 days ago

            There are going to be betting pools on who future victims will be, and someone will win big.

            The US is fucked. 😞

            • Kirp123@lemmy.world
              4·
              26 days ago

              I mean someone already bet that Maduro would fall and won big so honestly I’m not even surprised. Though they most likely had inside info.

  • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    142·
    26 days ago

    Drew Evans, superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, said during a news conference that federal officers blocked his agency from the shooting scene, and when they returned with a signed judicial warrant, they were still blocked.

    And then, despite having the police and national guard available to secure a crime scene from the murderers themselves, they threw up their hands and tutted disapprovingly.

    • malloc@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      62·
      26 days ago

      Rule of law has eroded in the USA. Death by a thousand cuts.

      Signed warrants. Jurisdiction. This means nothing to this administration.

    • Manjushri@piefed.socialEnglish
      45·
      26 days ago

      Right?! Why the fuck weren’t the agents blocking the investigation arrested for obstruction of justice?! What the hell is going on?

  • vogo13@sh.itjust.works
    49·
    26 days ago

    It looked like an execution to me, I believe the world will see it that way within a couple days as well.

  • malloc@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    44·
    26 days ago

    My only question: will this administration federalize Minnesota national guard?

  • floofloof@lemmy.ca
    431·
    26 days ago

    Trump shared images of the gun that immigration officials said was recovered and said: “What is that all about? Where are the local Police? Why weren’t they allowed to protect ICE Officers?”

    Note that these are the same Republicans who have lectured us for decades about people’s right to carry guns legally.

    Also, the image they circulated seems to have been on the internet for a while. It’s not this man’s gun:

    EDIT: I have been unable to confirm this last claim, or that the image search results below are real. The source of the search results image is this Threads post.

    gun image search

  • MoreMagic@feddit.org
    372·
    26 days ago

    It’s scary to me, how fast USA turned from ”the land of freedom/opportunity” to an openly fascist state.

    • hector@lemmy.today
      21·
      26 days ago

      50 years? That is the time it turned from, 1971 business roundtable made the first long term game plan project 2025 is the baby of.

      It has been fucked our entire lives getting worse.

      • BanMe@lemmy.world
        6·
        26 days ago

        Just to be clear, this was for white folks, for BIPOC it’s never been freedom and opportunity, broadly speaking.

      • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        26 days ago

        Sounds about right because that’s when wages stopped keeping up with inflation and wealth inequality began to rise dramatically.

    • Decq@lemmy.world
      171·
      26 days ago

      Was it fast though? Isn’t this what lots of people were talking about how fucked up the US was already but people choose to ignore because *murica first? It was pretty obvious to a lot of people it was a crap country already

      • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        26 days ago

        It is if you are a conservative, an unactive independent voter or a low information liberal voter. Those groups have a huge crossover of the media ecosystems they use with a lot of it being legacy TV media and FB.

    • Soup@lemmy.world
      72·
      26 days ago

      Haha you believed it was the land of freedom and opportunity. Ah well, we all gotta learn at some point, so welcome aboard.

    • Tiger666@lemmy.ca
      44·
      25 days ago

      Its been fascist for over 300 years. Where do you think Hitler got all of his ideas from? Have you read Mein Kampf? The USA has always been fascists, why do you think operation paperclip happened?

    • s1ndr0m3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      122·
      26 days ago

      The victim’s name is Alex Pretti

      Alex Pretti was a nurse and researcher who worked for the VA. He was executed for attempting to block Nazi Gestapo from assaulting/kidnapping a woman. 8 Nazis wrestled him to the ground and then shot him 11 times. The first shot appeared to go into his back.

  • itistime
    171·
    26 days ago

    We all may feel some impulse to act, even violently, but have a great feeling of uncertainty because there are no leaders. We need direction based off of game theory, or something. We need strategies that are surgical, because be real — we are outgunned. Yes, there are gun owners on the left, but come on, you know who has the lion’s share. Not only that, but we are different in that we hesitate to harm, because it’s the last thing we want. My dad kills animals for pleasure, but I do not. Also, if you aren’t armed now, you better do so immediately, because the gun nuts are not going to blink an eye when we are inevitably denied access.

    We need real strategy. Daggers in a select few hearts may be enough to shift things.

    Are there organizations or groups that do this? They would have to do it in secret, so how could we know? So it seems we’d have to assume we couldn’t know and form our own? Honestly, please clue me in!