Thank God we have video.
– Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
In less than three weeks of the new year armed federal agents in flak jackets and full-face masks shot and killed two American citizens.
Smartphone cameras captured the state-sanctioned executions of a Minneapolis mom and an I.C.U. nurse on videos seen worldwide.
The pitched screams of horror-struck bystanders are soul-crushing.
You cannot unsee the savage shootings by amped-up Border Patrol and ICE commandos despite the obscene gaslighting spewed by a sick regime. Do not look away.
First it was Renee Good, mother of three, gunned down in her Honda Pilot as she tried to drive away from cowboys in balaclavas spoiling for a fight.
On Saturday, it was Alex Pretti, a federal employee at the VA Medical Center in Minneapolis, gunned down in the street after he tried to help a woman shoved to the ground by a turbocharged federal thug.
Pretti was pepper-sprayed, pinned, and pummeled by half a dozen border control brawlers who fired at least ten rounds into him — after they disarmed the man of his lawful concealed carry firearm.
Just another extra-judicial killing of a U.S. citizen in service to a lawless president who immediately defended his paramilitary stormtroopers and shared an image of “the gunman’s gun” to vilify the dead man as a domestic terrorist who assaulted “ICE PATRIOTS” doing their job.
Trump lackeys deployed the same lie to absolve ICE “patriot” Jonathan Ross after he shot Renee Good in the head earlier this month and muttered “f***ing bitch” as she bled out in her SUV.
Nothing to see here except abundant video evidence of two Americans slain by federal agents in cold-blood.
Urgent course correction to save our unraveling republic cannot wait for the midterms.
Trump’s rapidly expanding private army is seeding state terror across the country to cow the traumatized into silence and submission.
We are all cooked if this nightmare is not swiftly neutralized with strict oversight by the vanishing bulwarks of liberty on both sides of the political divide. It is now or never. Do not let any politician who seeks your support change the subject or hide.
Former Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich was clear-eyed about what went viral Saturday.
Agents of the state killed a second American and for a second time the state fabricated a narrative to exonerate itself.
“What’s happening in Minnesota is waking up the whole country,” he posted. “It’s bothering us because we don’t see justice and fairness. It’s tearing the country apart but it’s also raising the consciousness of Americans who say enough is enough.”
U.S. Senate Democrats are there. They vowed to block a funding package this week if it includes money for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Border Control and ICE.
“Federal agents cannot murder people in broad daylight and face zero consequences” said Washington state U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, ranking member of the appropriations committee.
Even some Senate Republicans may balk after DHS and the Justice Department demanded that Minnesota turn over the state’s voter rolls in exchange for federal help on the latest fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen by federal immigration agents.
A quid pro quo for the rule of law if the government can surveil Minnesota voters??
Seven Democrats in the U.S House voted for the DHS spending bill, but Ohio’s 9th District congresswoman Marcy Kaptur was not one of them.
“Funding of these agencies without reform and accountability is directly opposed to what our Founders promised,” she posted the day federal agents killed at 37-year-old intensive care nurse. “Kristi Noem [DHS head] must step down and all involved in this tragedy and implementation of the policy that allowed it should be investigated.”
Ohio Republican U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno reserved his outrage for remarks by a Lucas County Commissioner who likened ICE agents to terrorists.
He fired off a letter to Pete Gerken expressing his “sincere disgust regarding the dangerous public comments you made about our brave men and women in uniform” but expressed no similar disgust with the shooting deaths of two Americans by state police creating content for Stephen Miller’s dystopian dream, nor the administration portraying both of its victims as “domestic terrorists” without evidence.
A week after Renee Good was shot dead by an ICE agent held blameless without investigation, Ohio’s U.S. Sen. Jon Husted praised ICE for keeping “people safe” and insisted that “by and large, they do a really good job at accomplishing that.”
But the intentionally detached-from-reality Republican warned Ohioans to stay clear of ICE combatants fitted for Fallujah or “you get tragedies like we saw in Minneapolis.”
Former Ohio Democratic U.S Sen. Sherrod Brown, who is running against Husted for his old seat, decried ICE tactics the day before Alex Pretti died in a hail of bullets from federal gunslingers.
ICE agents had positioned a Minnesota child as a decoy to capture his asylum-seeking father.
“It’s unconscionable and immoral that ICE would use a five-year-old boy as bait,” Brown said. “What’s playing out has nothing to do with keeping communities safe by going after violent criminals and human traffickers. The targeting of innocent families and American citizens is unacceptable.”
Dr. Amy Acton, Ohio’s former top public health official and Democratic governor candidate, said that what we are witnessing in Minnesota is not normal or OK.
“Law enforcement should be keeping people safe by going after dangerous criminals not terrorizing communities.”
But they are and you are not immune. Do not look away.
This story is republished from the Ohio Capital Journal. View the original article.
