Peter Johnson

A @nytimes video analysis shows that after agents restrained Alex Jeffrey Pretti & removed his gun from the skirmish, an agent appears to fire 4 shots at Petri. That agent & another then fire 6 more shots at Pretti while he lies motionless on the ground. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

The Trump administration claims that Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse, was armed and a threat when agents shot him in the back and killed him. In fact, as best we can tell at this stage from the multiple videos, he was: a.) a Good Samaritan trying to help a small woman with a backpack whom agents had thrown to the ground and pepper sprayed; b.) unarmed, his legally licensed weapon already having been removed by another agent and taken away from the scene seconds earlier; c.) on his knees, pinned by agents and no threat to anyone at the moment two agents shot him approximately ten times in the back. As with Renee Good, it's disgusting not only that the authorities execute a person in cold blood but also that they lie about it to defame their victim and then block an investigation by local police that might establish the facts.

ICE murdered another American citizen in Minneapolis. DHS and ICE are clearly out-of-control and they need to be held accountable for their horrific actions in Minnesota and beyond. I call on the Senate to block the DHS funding package next week, and my Republican colleagues to support our Articles of Impeachment against Secretary Noem. ICE’s brutality must be stopped.

To be clear: an insurrectionist using a Confederate flag pole to attack police guarding the US Capitol is dubbed a “patriot” and can receive a presidential pardon while US citizens in Minnesota exercising their 1st amendment rights to protest and assemble get executed.

Impossible to overstate appreciation for the on-the-ground journalists in the Twin Cities covering this overwhelming series of events. Support their independent, ethical reporting under immense stress.

The @WSJ has analysed 13 other incidents where ICE agents have fired into civilian vehicles & identify a pattern of agents boxing in running vehicles while engaging in escalatory & intrusive tactics which police are trained to avoid. wsj.com/us-news/videos…

WSJ identified 13 instances of agents firing at or into civilian vehicles since July, leaving 8 people shot with two confirmed dead. Only one civilian was armed—with a concealed weapon that was never drawn—and at least 5 of those shot were U.S. citizens. wsj.com/us-news/videos…

In the current context, we are seeing an actual “short circuit” of #HumanRights. The right to freedom of expression, freedom of conscience, religious freedom, and even the right to life are being restricted in the name of other so-called new rights, with the result that the very framework of human rights is losing its vitality and creating space for force and oppression. This occurs when each right becomes self-referential, and especially when it becomes disconnected from reality, nature, and truth.

SLO County DA defends deadly Minneapolis ICE shooting in 2 social media posts sanluisobispo.com/news/local/art…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on probe.

hard to believe the ICE officer is still alive, writes the president, of an ICE officer who was not hit at all and was well enough to go run down the street to check on the woman he had killed

Lock in! #DubNation #17

Statement from The Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg:

3/5 If the news about our military must first be approved by the government, then the public is no longer getting independent reporting. It is getting only what officials want them to see. That should alarm every American.

Only in America.... One shooting knocked out of the news by another shooting, which is now knocked out of the news by another shooting.

We interrupt the shooting at a college to bring you news of a shooting at a high school. This is America.

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@pljohnson9 We have so far this game!

View from the office today!

A Tsunami Watch is out for our coastal areas. As more information comes in, we will either see this become a Warning, an Advisory, or an Information Statement. Stay tuned for updates. weather.gov/safety/tsunami…

@gogetmagogetmoi Feelin this shift too!