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1) Doesn’t say he was wielding it, just that he had it. 2) Doesn’t match the video anyway. 3) DHS has lied in exactly this way after shooting someone before. bsky.app/profile/ms.n...

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BREAKING: The Department of Homeland Security releases a statement on the fatal shooting in Minneapolis involving a federal agent. DHS claims the victim “approached U.S. Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun.”

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The man was registered to conceal carry. (2nd amendment guys, where are you?). It looks like one of the goons took a gun from his holster and ran. Another goon was pistol whipping him. He had four goons on top of him. Then he was murdered.

Meidas Touch put out a video by a passerby showing him recording and the Feds approach him, and starts chest bumping him back to the sidewalk. Feds escalated. The evidence is coming out - DHS is lying again.

At least one part of this is easily disproven. We already have video from just prior to the shooting showing the victim standing there taking video when he is approached by ICE and they immediately start pushing him. He did not approach them and he is clearly just taking video with his phone.

I’ve been going on right wing X lately, specifically Kurt Schlichter’s feed. It really can’t be overstated how venally sadistic these people are. I don’t think most liberals or center-lefties truly know. They don’t see/hear/read this stuff directly. These people are truly demonic.

“They’re supporters” are all gun-owning 2nd Amendment, don’t tread on me” folks. So if owning and carrying a handgun is a crime, these “supporters” should be pissed off as hell.

I mean, an ICE agent just murdered a woman on video in front of numerous witnesses a couple of weeks ago and local officials couldn’t be bothered to get an arrest warrant. If that doesn’t send a clear message to ICE that they can kill whomever they want for any reason, I’m not sure what does.

The ‘agents’ have no idea how to escalate their own emotions let alone anyone else’s and they have no self control anyway. The least the government can do is unarm these idiots but all it does is give them more power and equipment!

DHS is doing exactly what Miller demanded: murder and brutalize citizens until a counter reaction is provoked. The get Trump to invoke The Insurrection Act and eventually martial law. Goal is to kill off midterm elections and rule forever

After shooting Marimar Martinez 5 times in Chicago in October, they claimed that she had rammed their vehicle, boxed them in, and was brandishing an automatic weapon. She lived. Bystander and the agent's own body cam video proved otherwise.

2A folks about to pivot hard to a comply or die stance. Then they'll pivot back when they decide it benefits them again.

As in many states, you can carry with a permit in Minnesota. I guess we have to forgo that right nationwide in the event ICE turns their attention our way.

Yep. It’s intentionally misleading, simply implying or trying to put an image in people‘s heads of someone coming at agents with a gun drawn (which clearly was not the case).

It’s also a huge miscalculation, judging from the NRA statement. Want to piss off the remaining 10% not already angry? The far right goons? Make the message about the gun this law-abiding white guy was carrying legally, which was in a holster. Say you shot him because of that.

Also seems like a good moment to remember that we haven’t heard more about Ross’s “internal bleeding” since that CBS scoop.

To what you already know The utter irony is that was reported based on a single government source: no other source exists. If the same reporting rules apply as happened with the 60min piece that report should have been held until someone OTHER than nameless admin sources weighed in

DHS isn’t ‘releasing facts’; it’s lawyering a killing in real time. Until independent video, forensics, and witnesses back it up, ‘approached with a 9mm’ is a claim, not the truth.

This! They should never have approached him. Just as they should have driven around Renee when she tried to wave them by. It doesn’t matter if he had a gun or not. What he was doing was within his legal rights.

My take: DHS learns the man had a legal permit to carry, which he did, & hence their claim he was armed. Video prior to the altercation shows he has his phone out/not a gun. When he was shot, he was face down on the ground multiple agents on him. Armed is no reason to kill. How was he a threat?

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com

This is footage taken by some folks on their way to work this morning before the shooting. www.instagram.com/reel/DT5lGwI...

I do not know how anyone could watch that footage and not see what is effectively a summary execution. The shooter wanders over while the man was already restrained on the ground and being beaten, fires into his back, and keeps shooting after the man is splayed.

I slowed down the video and I never saw the gun he was on all fours and his hands were palm down u can see there was nothing in his hands!!🤬🤬🤬🤬

I thought that was his gun ( gray jacket guy gun) that he just shot him with , the beating he endured with that metal canister !! They didn’t know he had a gun until someone yelled out gun gun then the shots

Also, if the guy approached them with a gun out why does this video show otherwise? Additionally if the guy had a gun out and that's their justification for shooting him, why remove the gun from the immediate scene, place it on the seat of a vehicle, post it to social media? bsky.app/profile/meid...

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

A new video appears to show the moments leading up to a fatal shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis, with the individual appearing to simply record on his phone as agents escalated the situation. 🎥 dangjessie / Threads

Posting pics on Xitter isn't the same as turning it in as evidence. They're panicking and trying to spin this without thinking things through. Who's going to trace the serial number? That'd be the ATF's job, another federal agency (DOJ).

This was 30-60 seconds before he was shot - ICE officer pushed him to street to try to get him to stop recording with his phone - this is still from video taken from car that drove through scene seconds before

Minnesota is an open carry state. DHS are lying. Their initial statement "someone approached Border Patrol agents with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun” and agents tried to disarm him, leading to “an armed struggle.” Even if he had it holstered under his jacket, he was just protesting. This was murder.

Your government, local and national, is fully against you, including Tim Walz. They talk, but do nothing. They like this. They’re fine with your being shot. Prove me wrong. Don’t listen to people who tell you they’re helping you. If they were helping this wouldn’t be happening.

At this point there is almost no downside to them just saying 'yeah, we really were going for the Gestapo thing all along' and saving themselves the humiliation of the stupid lies.

Minneapolis Police Chief O'Hara: "The video speaks for itself. We have identified this person - 37-year-old, white male, resident of the city. The only interaction that we are aware of with law enforcement has been for traffic tickets and we believe he is a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry."

Someone said the other day that we should always remember that the first thing cops say after—I can’t remember if it was after a shooting or just in general, but definitely after a shooting—is a lie.

Exactly. The video shows him holding only a cell phone. So he wasn't /brandishing/ the gun. It would be equally true if DHS were to say "A person approached U.S. Border Patrol with a cell phone" or even "A person approached U.S. Border Patrol with a pair of socks."

It appears that in the scuffle with the man on the ground, his LEGALLY OBTAINED AND CARRIED FIREARM was exposed. At that moment the ICE agents opened fire behind him opened fire, shooting him at least twice in the back. Other agents then opened fire. I counted AT LEAST 10 shots. He was executed.

It's going to become that Latinex ppl or BIPOC will considered violent criminals if legally carrying at all if stopped by or trying to stop ICE (their definition of 'trying to stop') This will later be expanded to any people in ICE's vicinity.

iirc Vance didn’t really say that Liam Ramos’ father fled, just sort of implied that the child was unaccompanied—which automatically happens after you arrest a parent. But that immediately transmogrified into “he ran and abandoned him!” Same deal here. “Armed” becomes “he was going for the gun!”

I saw a video of 6 gest*po beating & kicking a man on the ground. Then, they suddenly all run away ... Is that when he was shot? None of the agents run away w/ a weapon taken from the victim. And why would they swarm someone with an automatic weapon? This seems like yet another lie from the feds.

Except that there is video showing him standing in the street with his phone in his hand filming them when they approach him and shove him backward. They confronted him.