By mada on Skatehive
Alex Pretti is the second American citizen to be shot dead in the street in front of a crowd by ICE agents in Minneapolis so far this month, following Renee Good's killing. Both people were well known and beloved by their community. Both were legal observers documenting the unconstitutional activities of federal agents. Pretti was an ICU nurse with the Minneapolis VA whose final act in life was to protect another legal observer from an attacking federal agent. Renee Good's last words, spoken to an ICE agent, were, "That's fine, dude. I’m not mad at you." Watching national news and social media pick up the story about these killings and the circumstances surrounding them, I've been tracking the spin machine as it divides public discourse into two mutually exclusive narratives, split along predictable partisan lines. The official story about the situation from DHS is so far from reality that it just sounds silly. At the same time, some of the stories activists are telling in the streets