When Veterans Take Notice: Alex Pretti Shooting Videos Again Contradict ICE/Homeland Security/Trump Administration's

 

ICE/DHS and the Trump Administration said that Alex approached them with a gun, attacked ICE with intent to kill.

Several video angles disagree.

Here is ABC's timeline walkthrough.

After ICE pushes 1 shouting protestor down, trying to pin her (orange backpack), Alex begins yelling at them to get off her and begins filming - the object in his hand is clearly a cell phone, not a gun.

Alex walks closer, still filming and shouting.

Two ICE agents walks over to him and pepper spray him in the face.

He continues to yell at them to get off the orange backpack protestor.

They now push him down, hit him in the head with a metal object at least 5 times, black-beanie guy shoots him once, another guy a second time, then the group backs up some and it's unclear who, but at least 5 more shots were fired.

Here's what's different about this shooting and what's raising even Republican alarm bells with veterans taking up his cause:

1. Alex was an ICU nurse at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Minneapolis, who had taken care of many Trump Republicans and had been a part of several honor ceremonies for them - and they and their families remembered. 

The VA, veterans, and their families have pressed conservative press about why they're not mentioning him, not showing the videos, and worse, villainizing him if they do mention him, when they knew him - and thus, veterans began sharing the videos themselves on social media.  

Since then, military press has honored Alex with his story.

Further, veterans have called their own local Republican senators requesting a congressional investigation.

 

2. Alex had a conceal and carry license and was a gun owner, and though he had one in his belt at the time, he never drew it - the object in his hand was a cell phone. 

 

Gun-owner advocates have sounded the alarm about gun ownership in his case - because he had a license and belted his gun legally, and though he easily could've pulled his gun and used it in self-defense, he didn't. 

That is exactly what they advocate, responsible gun ownership and training - try everything else to defend yourself before you shoot - proving it is ICE who is poorly trained and has no restraint.

In fact, his GoFundMe page to pay for his burial has now reached the $1 million mark.

Conservative press cannot spin this one and villainize him because of his work with the VA and care for veterans, but that doesn't stop  them from trying ... see how Fox News is finally mentioning him today ... 

Yeah, that's not gonna work either, Faux News.

Of course protests are organized through a network of text messages, but not just the far left - moderate, left, and far left alike, as well as religious groups were in on this one - and there's nothing wrong with organized protests, keeping track of how many at what location, as long as they aren't plotting violence!  

(I'm pretty sure y'all know that after January 6th.) 

What exactly is your point, anyway?

Are you saying the far left forced Alex and several thousand other non-far-left protestors to protest against their will, as if they were at gunpoint? (Nope - that was you all that put a gun to his head.)

That it's the far left's fault y'all shot Alex Pretti at least 7 times?

Beyond victim-blaming, it doesn't even make any sense!

So desperate for any way to spin this, but you can't, so you're throwing up nonsense.

Almost no one is buying your BS propaganda, this time, because veterans have shared the video you didn't.

Stop trying to gaslight us for what we can clearly see ourselves!

And if your press has actually shown you the video versus what ICE/DHS/Homeland Security says, and you think that statement even makes sense, you're either totally brainwashed, a total idiot, or a sociopath or psychopath, trying to gaslight us about what we actually saw with our own eyes.