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@TraceBatton @heckyessica He was filming. Protected by the 1A. He then tried to help a lady up. ICE approached and maced him. Then a group tackled him when he had his hands up They beat and disarmed him. Then they executed him. Their defense now is because he was practicing his 2A rights.

@AntiFacistVet @heckyessica What he did was insert himself into a powder-keg situation (against the law) and he was ARMED TO THE TEETH. It doesn’t matter (unfortunately) if his intentions were good/noble. If you wrestle on the ground w/LEOs in the middle of dangerous situation you could lose your life.

If you are riding high on your self righteous horse, maybe jump down and put yourself in the position of both parties. Seriously use critical thinking. Why is a man going to a protest of law enforcement, armed? I’m fully 2A friendly, but again, using our brains, not emotions, what was the reasoning for being armed? Do you think ICE is going to shoot up the protest, and you’re the guy that’s gonna take a few out? Or maybe you intend on antagonizing agents, and you’re ready for an armed confrontation should they choose to detain you. Now for the agents: you see a few people being disruptive in some way (referring to the woman who was pepper sprayed). A man jumps in to prevent further harm to the woman and gets himself in the conflict. Had he prior interactions with agents earlier? We don’t know. But he was standing amongst disrupters at a time that ICE agents decided they weren’t dealing with it anymore. Compliance wasn’t the guy’s vibe, so he ends up with several agents on him. At some point a gun is seen on the man. We don’t know if he reached for it. If he was telling agents he had one, if he made a threat, etc. We know he had a gun and at some point that was realized by the agents. These agents are in enemy territory. They are enduring protest after protest for doing their job. A necessary and noble one. Fight me on that; I don’t care. But they know a man at the protest with a gun is not there for ICE backup. They have less than 5 seconds to assess the threat and decide who will make it home to their family that night. There are no winners in this. Which is why we need politicians and activists to lower the temperature dramatically. This man dying helped no on and nothing. And you can believe law enforcement doesn’t care about these situations, but they do. I doubt they sleep well for a while. They will play it over and over in their head, thinking what went wrong and did they mess up. Prayers for all. America is sovereign. We have a right to our borders. ICE has a shit job. Your emotions are not helpful.

@SenBillCassidy Willing to bet you and others in the GOP will do your best to minimize this. Your conclusion will be agents need more training and DHS and ICe need to review their policies. You will not question DHS saying they no longer need the Judicial branch for warrants to enter homes

The events in Minneapolis are incredibly disturbing. The credibility of ICE and DHS are at stake. There must be a full joint federal and state investigation. We can trust the American people with the truth.

@ChiefEngineerCE Way off. That chart is percent of households. Not percent of of the total of welfare payments.

So best case 70% of the welfare we pay goes to foreign born and illegals? I remember that bumper sticker about how we need to work hard because millions on welfare were counting on us. Think about that as you are doing your taxes.

@kenklippenstein Do not fall for it. They will demand retraining and review of policies. That is the conclusion they will have Which will not fix what is going on or change behaviors. Look at the reactions they had after the killings.

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@tedlieu @WhiteHouse You are being ignorant. A operational stand down is not what is needed. More training isn't going to fix this. DHS deciding the Constitution should no longer be a constraint is the problem

When preventable deaths occur in the military, an operational stand down can be ordered. That’s what we need right now for ICE/CBP. @WhiteHouse should order a stand down of ICE/CBP interior operations to calm tensions and to review/change policies, coordination, training, etc.

@SethAbramson Think a lot of people do not understand: If the Judiciary tries to stand in the way. They will ignore the rulings. The GOP in Congress has proven they will not stand in the way. So that is not an option. The US military is going to decide the fate if the US.

As an attorney, I know Trump has no ability to cancel our elections. But as someone who is a Trump biographer and presidential historian, I simultaneously am well aware that he has the will, the capacity, the resources, and the troops to make free and fair elections impossible.

I'm a journalist and attorney, not an activist, so I've no answers on what Americans should do right now. I only know this: Donald Trump is attempting to incite a civil war so he can cancel all future elections, and he will keep executing citizens until that outcome is achieved.

@Electroversenet Wonder why wind generators work in places that are colder for longer? That is because Tx power companies didn't want to spend the money to winterize them. Like most places where it can get cold do.

Texas built the largest wind fleet in America, more than 30,000 turbines, costing billions in subsidies, sold as clean, limitless energy. But in February 2021, reality hit. A historic cold outbreak froze the turbines. Power output across the state collapsed within hours. The grid buckled. Millions lost electricity. Almost 1,000 people died. And while politicians blamed gas lines and unexpected weather, the data pointed to a grid that had grown dangerously dependent on wind. The promise was clean energy. The reality was blackouts, Texans freezing to death, and a grid one cold snap away from collapse.

@SethAbramson Not random. Check out their recruitment ads. They are targeted to a certain type of person

All the videos we're seeing of ICE and CBP agents make it seem like many of these guys have never done any law enforcement work before at all It really does appear as though Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem just grabbed random men off the street and told them to go off on everyone

@EWErickson Comply or die. Do not exercise your 1A and 2A rights. ICE is not operating lawfully. Weird how they managed to deport a lot of people under Obama. Without out all this drama. Maybe because then, they were obeying the laws of our nation.

How many more Americans will die before the government of Minnesota does what the majority of other states do and simply cooperates with federal immigration authorities to deport detained illegal aliens? Minnesota would rather Americans die than illegal aliens get deported.

@MAGACult2 Disagree This ends after a lot of violence. They will ignore laws They will ignore election results They will ignore court rulings If the good side wins that fight, then the files come out when they are out of power

This alllllll ends when the files come out. Thats a fact. Disagree? Prove us wrong.

There are going to be more deaths uncovered.

A short video in the wake of January 24, 2026 Minneapolis shooting

@highbrow_nobrow IMHO getting to the brink of war is very likely no matter how this turns out. China has great opportunity to expand its global influence and power. $ losing influence and Yuan a logical replacement for many parts of the world Both due to Trump We are in for a seismic change

The decline of U.S. democracy is a threat multiplier to the entire world.

100% true. They are not going to go peacefully They are fascists Laws will not stop them from doing what they want The GOP in Congress will not exercise their authority to stop them The SCOTUS will not stop them

@ijbailey So true. Lifting one group lifts others. Oppressing one oppresses others.

Remember when Black Lives Matter activists said what they were trying to fix affects everyone, just Black people first? Remember when Black scholars said anti-Black policies eventually always end up hurting others? Remember when Black journalists said it wasn’t economic angst?

@AndrewTWalker Tried to help a woman on the ground Never pulled his gun or tried to Agents approach him and escalate Agent pulls gun from waistband, while other agents have him pinned and beating him After he is disarmed on the ground he is executed He was exercising his 1A and 2A rights

It really is simple: do not impede law enforcement operations. Claiming the mantle of civil disobedience does not confer automatic moral legitimacy in every instance, especially when the standards used to define legitimacy—common in leftist frameworks—are contested, superficial, and self-generated.

@LauraRbnsn Lots of people do not realize this. That is because lots of people are good and decent people. So it is hard for them to imagine about 25=30% of the population do not care if their gov kill other citizens. A number of those 25-30% relish it

The problem is, for a lot of people it will never be enough. There will never be enough bloodshed to satisfy them. They wake up every single morning excited to watch citizens they don't like get brutalized and killed. This is what they voted for.

@conservmillen This is one reason fascists can rise to power. People like Allie making the argument they do some good to. They have been detaining US citizens with IDs, legal immigrants who had valid proof of status, Native Americans Unless she is a Nazi then it is just support

Dems are winning the media war in Minneapolis. Republicans have played decent defense, but we need more stories and images showing the professionalism and compassion of ICE and border patrol, as well as stories/images of the victims of illegal alien violence

@TimAlberta The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears I think Orwell got it wrong. You want to believe, so the party doesn't have to tell you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. You just play along with the lie.

Okay so, 1) an American citizen exercises his First Amendment right to peaceably assemble and his Second Amendment right to bear arms, out of apparent concern that a tyrannical federal government is violating basic protections afforded under the Constitution 2) after coming to the aid of an unarmed woman who's been shoved to the ground by a masked federal agent, the citizen -- impaired by pepper spray, holding nothing but a cell phone -- is dragged to the ground by a group of other masked agents 3) during the scuffle, shortly after one masked agent removes the weapon from the restrained citizen's person, several other masked agents open fire, unloading 10 shots from close range and killing the unarmed citizen 4) despite video evidence, a spokesman for the federal government says the citizen approached agents with a gun, provoked a violent confrontation, and planned to "massacre" law enforcement You really want to defend this? Go ahead. Just know, you look like an absolute fool.