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BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

propublica.orgTwo CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti ShootingThe two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

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Benj
@splatterthought.bsky.social

👏👏👏👏👏 This is the 1st Amendment in action. This is journalism without fear or favor. This is what a government "of the people, by the people and for the people" was always supposed to mean.

progressivepeter.bsky.social
@progressivepeter.bsky.social

I expect Bondi is shopping a warrant application around, trying to find a magistrate judge to sign off on a ginned up affadavit and allegations of "National Security", "threats to LE", etc. I hope that BigLaw steps up to the plate and is ready to defend you at every step. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO!

m_r_m_
@m-r-m.bsky.social

Both agents are currently on leave following the incident. The Department of Homeland Security oversees the agents and has acknowledged their involvement in the shooting.

Boudicca
@boudica24.bsky.social

Thank you, ProPublica. I'm proud to have supported you last year and continue to this year. Keep doing what you're doing, excellent journalism as always.

afrowe.bsky.social
@afrowe.bsky.social

More publishing: Many children are abducted & separated from their parents. What happens to them? It’s time for the media and elected officials to focus on the children held in US / ICE concentration camps to get more of them released & show the horror of these actions.

Dan
@danp2078r.bsky.social

Trump going after the press by arresting Lemon n others will only embolden the press to work harder to hold the powerful to account...🙏

Grumpy Zeus
@grumpyzeus.bsky.social

Absolutely. If the State of Minnesota wishes to proceed with a Grand Jury that Sovereign entity has a right to know who pumped 10 bullets into an innocent Veterans Administration nurse and citizen of that State. This is still America, even if Republicans don't seem to feel that way.

Betty Rogers
@ba-rogers-roshi.bsky.social

Bravo!!! Thank you thank you. All across this nation our hearts are in pain over the deaths of Rene Good and Alex Pretti. The brutal thuggery unleashed on people of all ages, citizens too. What a cruel business Trump has invested America in!

Always Think 1st so U R #WokeAF
@alwaysthinkhow.bsky.social

Most American Hispanics consider themselves as white and in many parts of the Southwest from CA to TX the families go back many generations. They got here with those states were Spanish or later Mexican so the US rolled over them. In Texas gun culture is very strong too.

Daughter of Sekhmet
@sekhmetsaves.bsky.social

Latinos have conservatives just like any other group, and all conservatives think they're part of the super special in group who will be spared from the horrors of fascism if they lick enough boot.

K-pop Ambassador
@goatsgotohell.bsky.social

There’s other minority groups that operate exactly like this as well. They conflate their religiosity, homophobia, and patriarchy to feel as though they’re in the group but they’re just pawns on the MAGA board.

S. Hayase
@quicktide.bsky.social

Hold them accountable!! Hold their superiors accountable, too! Bovino, Homan, Noem, Miller, Trump -- all complicit in unleashing unjustifiable violence on the people of Minneapolis!

RckyMtnMn
@rckymtnmn.bsky.social

So, they shouldn't jump straight to force. The thing is, they're being given permission to jump straight to force... And it's what they want to do. They want to display their superiority and the power afforded them and to let others know they're in charge. They want to be aggressive. They enjoy it.

FemOnFire
@i-decent.bsky.social

Hmmmm....Im not buying it right now. Two Latino names? I wouldn't be suprised if they have a "suicide pact" and we never hear about them again.

Solde
@soldea.bsky.social

It will be telling to see which new organizations pick this up. Probably very few, because most don’t do real journalism anymore.

Gorgonlin
@gorgonlin.bsky.social

Tell me these guys didn't join to keep their families from being deported??? And the money, they wanted the money... Sick humans. All of them...

Umbrae Soulsbane
@umbrae.bsky.social

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Kathy of Millions
@bluntmeme.bsky.social

Fundamentalist Christianity holds that every word of the Bible is the inspired word of God. This is the basis of their faith. Unless, I guess it gets in the way of their color based hatred.

Noncompliant AF
@braverymatters.bsky.social

These two are going to find out they were never actually in the club. Prison will not be kind to them with no friends. I hope every brown or black federal agent is paying attention: they will never defend or protect you the way they would a white man.

Blkshrink
@blkshrink.bsky.social

Given how much this government lies how can you be sure this are the real shooters? The next question is are they alive to verify or have they “disappeared” to parts unknown or shallow graves???

Blkshrink
@blkshrink.bsky.social

Looking at the Epstein files, Florida case, and what you can see of FBI documents makes a person really suspicious…more so than ever before and rightfully so. These people have been lying to us for decades, ALLOWING crimes to happen.

Blkshrink
@blkshrink.bsky.social

I think it fair and reasonable to ask, particularly when dealing with people, entities, and organizations providing information we’re supposed to just accept without any points of reference or anything to verify.

Crazie Daizee
@craziedaizee.bsky.social

do naturalized citizens working for ICE not grasp administration is working to undo their citizenship and Supreme Court may actually let them? they might get to 2029 thinking they are going to get their "$50K bonus" but instead get put in same prisons they put thousands of others, then deported

gangsternana.bsky.social
@gangsternana.bsky.social

Again, I’m reading the newspaper today and looking at the names of the ICE agents and they’re all Latino names. I know some Jews in Germany turned in other Jews, thinking it would save them, but I doubt any of them were members of that Gestapo.

Support CAF
@yknot05.bsky.social

Names that traditionally wldn't be considered as nationalist white guys are working for ICE? Do they think their families will be protected if they're listed as ICE members? When 'purist' fascists gain control of security/police/military forces, those w 'foreign' family names will be targeted too.

syrdc.bsky.social
@syrdc.bsky.social

Unmask the secret police of the authoritarian government. If they think it was justified, they can mount that argument. Like every other LEO. Just refusing to be accountable at all is not an option. Any Dem, Rep, Libertarian, anyone should agree with that.

Wendy Lady
@geekyboutiquey.bsky.social

Not entirely correct. Only 10 were hanged. 12 sentenced to death. Many others were given fines. Some sent to other countries in the brain drain, including a Nazi scientist sent to work at NASA. While thousands of others were just given participant labels and let go.

Wendy Lady
@geekyboutiquey.bsky.social

I'm sorry if that comes as a shock, but we need to stop the fantasy that we will solve this by threatening them with a death penalty. It's not realistic and the death penalty has never been a good deterrent. For any crime.

Wendy Lady
@geekyboutiquey.bsky.social

Believe it or not, they made it economically hard for you to be a Nazi after the war. You'll never scare anyone away from being a fascist by force. As much as I love telling them to fuck off and enjoy seeing them punched in the face and falling on their asses on slick ICE. They don't respond to it.

Hedley Lamar's fugly sister
@endora-laduce.bsky.social

FUCK OFF. The DOJ and all of it's parasite subsidiaries COULDN'T TELL THE TRUTH IF THEIR LIFE DEPENDED ON IT. How convenient that the NAMES of those ICE agents are HISPANIC- thereby muddying the RACIST WATERS! WHAT? The white man has now been murdered by two hispanic men? Pitchforks for MAGA?

9s6.bsky.social
@9s6.bsky.social

The two Latino ICE agents are going down for murdering Alex. Yet, the white ICE agent who killed Renee Good is still being protective. People of color who are working as ICE agents, I would wake the blank up! Rump and friends don't like women or People of color.

Kris
@pachyaena.bsky.social

Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez. Look at their names. Latinos working for an agency that treats other latinos like shit, and they murder anyone that they feel like murdering. ICE and Border Patrol 'agents' are murderous thugs.

Kruel2bkind
@kruel2bkind.bsky.social

That is why they are being outed. They will not be protected by this administration they are expendable and will be hung out to dry because they are not white. You see how they protected the white thug. For the heinous act that they perpetrated, they deserve everything coming to them and more.

'Pip' will do
@phillilla.bsky.social

I think we can say wtaf... not the same in terms of seriousness but I don't get why British Asians would consider voting/standing for our right wing parties (Reform, Reclaim, Advance, UKIP)

Airwindows
@airwindows.com

Trump may be preferentially hiring from people he can use a carrot/stick approach with. $50,000 to murder people OR ICE takes your own personal family, sign up. That is a hard bargain. It does make me wonder if MAGA want hispanics taking their guns and shooting them? Contemptuous as only Trump is.

A-M
@ampd.bsky.social

I don’t trust any one in ICE or CBP. This administration lies so much and is so incompetent, how can we believe their own records. With these agents wearing masks they can pin the blame on any one of them.

The One True Josh
@theonetruejosh.bsky.social

I agree but unfortunately, even when we have video of them doing it, they do still have the right to the assumption of innocence until found guilty by a jury so news outlets have to shield themselves from the scumbags so they don't face billion dollar libel suits backed up by a corrupt DOJ

Mr Bill 😯
@mrbill420.bsky.social

#mask_off_ice #defund_ice Turn over all of the Epstein files. #pedophiletrump #hookermelania #felontrump #rapisttrump #fmaga #8647🪏⚰️ The Idaho GOP would rather support a #pedophiletrump than to admit they were wrong.

Shawna O
@nonnashawna.bsky.social

My raging maga Hispanic neighbor will be the first to turn someone in to ICE. (But I'll STILL make a scene if ICE comes down our street and bangs on her door, because if she loses due process, we've all lost it)

pridenorprejudice.bsky.social
@pridenorprejudice.bsky.social

Trump traffics in hate. Racism, otherism-byproducts. If you’re into hate, Trump”s like a Pied Piper Which explains Latinos 4 Trump, Blacks 4 Trump. Because they harbor some form of grievance- based hate against an”other” group. View themselves exempt/exceptions. “He is not talking abt me”

JR Cross
@jrcrossbooks.bsky.social

How can anyone associated with this fascist terrorist organization look at anyone in the face and not be ashamed? One reason they wear masks is so they can hide during work so they can’t be identified when they’re not working, like when they are drunk or dreaming of killing. Barely human scum.

madambluestocking
@madambluestocking.bsky.social

This. I think by people saying they're hiding, or they're trying to be scary, we're inadvertantly creating a sick mythology around them. Creating chaos is a nice outcome but this is likely logistic. they're hyper-reliant on facial rec tech with clunky UI they haven't been adequately trained on.

aekm.bsky.social
@aekm.bsky.social

I’m thinking dishonorable discharged military folks would be perfect along with Blackwater mercenaries and anyone currently serving in prison would be dutiful killers for the republican party and its voters, along with the militia folks and yea why not J6ers.

Madaleine
@madaleine.bsky.social

Because many Latinos are racist af against other Latinos, especially those they deem lesser than. They see themselves as the good brown people & the sweaty immigrants as the bad ones giving all Latinos a bad name. They have plenty of derogatory names they call them, as well.

Christine
@wehaverights.bsky.social

Hate to say it, I'm sure many families know about their "family members" being involved with ICE/DHS in doing the unthinkable to humans. How many of them agree/disagree? 🤷🏼‍♀️ If enough money is involved, they may turn a blind eye, especially if they don't personally know the people receiving the abuse.

Miriam
@gr82bus.bsky.social

If you drive the car in a robbery & the guy in the store shoots & kills someone you both go to prison for murder. There were 8 #gestapo involved in the beating. They are co-conspirators in a murder. Where one goes, they all go.

Nora🏳️‍⚧️
@noram25.bsky.social

Multiple other countries have started protesting against US ICE. These two agents better lock their doors and windows and update their home security. The world is coming after them. The Bourne movies have nothing on that

Nora🏳️‍⚧️
@noram25.bsky.social

I mean, there is a moral philosophy I've been tweaking the wording of for years. Here's what I have so far: You are far more likely to experience the world you create than the world you do not create. I hope everyone gets treated exactly how they treat others. Good, bad, and otherwise.

Fnuxi Bit
@fnuxibit.bsky.social

I don’t care what their names or ethnicities are…they demonstrated the least professional law enforcement behavior I have ever seen and they need to be charged for (at the very least) negligent homicide.

Always Think 1st so U R #WokeAF
@alwaysthinkhow.bsky.social

Not true. Border Patrol has been out in the desert pouring out water that Good Samaritans leave for people trying to walk for many miles to a road to meet smugglers, the coyotes. People die in the remote parts of the southwest desert every year because Immigration is so broken.

huntervanv.bsky.social
@huntervanv.bsky.social

Slightly surprising but not that shocking that two thugs with Hispanic names work for ICE. Only slightly. You can't expect racial solidarity in almost any situation. German Jews helped load people onto cattle cars. The 6 cops who beat Tyre Nichols to death were all Black.

Ciudadano del 🌎
@ricargoper.bsky.social

But doesn't the Trump administration state that immigrants who commit violent crimes must be deported from the country? Can Ochoa and Gutiérrez murder Americans with Trump's consent without being tried, imprisoned, and deported for being murderers?

auldtwa
@auldtwa.bsky.social

what exactly did Pretti do that "interfered" with CPB? Was the woman undocumented? It was a public street. They have no authority to act as traffic cops. What grounds to arrest the woman? If none, what enforcement was being interfered with?

skokellie
@skokellie.bsky.social

Right? Once the agent shoves the woman and she falls, she is no longer “impeding” and Pretti helping her on the side of the road isn’t impeding traffic either.

poodlemama56.bsky.social
@poodlemama56.bsky.social

It was a revenge killing. Several days earlier, Pretti had become enraged over something ICE did in front of him, and he kicked he rear taillight of an ICE vehicle driving away. Other ice agents tackled him (his concealed carry gun was very obvious during that, and he never so much as touched it).

poodlemama56.bsky.social
@poodlemama56.bsky.social

They pinged his phone and then tracked him until the day he was killed. There was no reason or motive that day. They just shot him in the back anyway. Witnesses were tackled and arrested and their phones taken (and not returned)

karicort.bsky.social
@karicort.bsky.social

To those who refuse to believe white supremacy is a plague within Latino society, here ya go… Not only with how they vote, but also with the white-supremacist positions they align themselves with. Sincerely, An Afro-Latina

teachagainstracism.bsky.social
@teachagainstracism.bsky.social

Word. For example, The Dominican Republic was birthed in antiBlack racism. You have Dominicans even darker than me saying they’re not Black. I’m alway like, you think those racist give a shit that you speak Spanish and that our backs bled for sugar cane instead of cotton? Fuck outta here.

Colleen Goos
@gooscolleen.bsky.social

This! I've tried to explain so often that the way Spain set up who is white or not still affects how we (Latinos) view ourselves and those around us. Even when we personally don't agree with the hierarchy some of us definitely benefit by claiming to be white, especially if we look it 1/

Colleen Goos
@gooscolleen.bsky.social

Ive had people come up to me complaining about migrant workers, or other racist BS and Ive asked them what makes them think I am the right person to say that to. Their faces are priceless when I tell them I am Latina and "those migrants" could easily be people in my family 2/

karicort.bsky.social
@karicort.bsky.social

Turn on Television & Telemundo—watch a novela & count how many times the lead heroine actress is not white-passing. Count how many times they passive aggressively asked Amara la Negra & other Afro-latinos about ethnicity. Count how many indigenous presenting Latinos often get the villain roles…

HuaDe
@huade7.bsky.social

I have a theory… Latino men who support MAGA are more motivated by hate for homosexuality or something like that than they are motivated by racism. It is machismo. Just a theory

karicort.bsky.social
@karicort.bsky.social

That’s nice to say that to a person who was constantly quizzed by fair complexioned Latinos, about understanding my culture and language. All of this white being mocked for my hair and spoken about in Spanish, bc they assumed I wouldn’t understand (ya know, bc that happens to Afro-Latinos)

karicort.bsky.social
@karicort.bsky.social

All of this while born and raised in NYC— where I met just about every single Latino representative of all the varying nations. Shoot, even the ones who shared ethnicity were the same way. All cultures need to hold their own accountable

karicort.bsky.social
@karicort.bsky.social

So it’s okay for them to harm others in order to assimilate and protect themselves— instead of unifying with others? That’s why your statement sounds like. I’ll, I can sympathize with colonizers and those who try to emulate them

Expatina
@thelongblonde.bsky.social

Didn't this also happen to some degree with the Cuban community post-Castro, the ones who considered themselves grandees dealing with other Cuban refugees as if they were inferior and not supporting their emigration?

AngelicTransistors
@angelictransistors.umamusume.horse

it's unfortunate (but not surprising) to see that the problem of many who can pass as being within normative ranges aligning themselves against those who are less able or willing to conform exists across types of marginalization. it really does remind us that all fights are interconnected

Txukie
@txukie.bsky.social

Aquí en España tenemos mucha inmigración de Latinoamérica, doy fé del nivel de racismo extremo de muchos latinos blancos.

Leslie Dady
@lesliedady.bsky.social

Thank you for saying this because it actually explains a lot. My best friend is of Hispanic descent and her cousins who are Hispanic also are big Chump supporters. I didn’t even know this was a thing but it makes sense now.

Caro🇨🇦
@cadicatz.bsky.social

As a Canadian (where we definitely have an embarrassing history of racism and oppression) I think there is a huge psychological rabbit hole you can go down in understanding the motivations of Americans. All of your white racist aholes should get their DNA done.

alcaberuska.bsky.social
@alcaberuska.bsky.social

I’m Czech living in Portugal. In both countries is a huge racism too. So just blame the Americans, is too simplistic. If you speak other languages and go to the social media, you could read some pretty nasty things .

Caro🇨🇦
@cadicatz.bsky.social

I would agree that it's everywhere. There is a cultural dynamic for the newer colonized countries. The US was in only recent decades making headway with blatant racism. In Canada I believe we were and are much further progressed. Social media is a platform for ugliness, frankly.

Mom of a Shihtzu boy
@sfshlv.bsky.social

One Latino guy explained it on YT. Within their community, having pale skin is considered superior to darker skin. According to him, the discrimination against darker skin people within the community has existed for a long time.

sserna.bsky.social
@sserna.bsky.social

It’s a plague to many ethnicities and different racial groups because there have always been and will always be sellouts just like Nicki Minaj right now.Using words like “…how they vote…” sound xenophobic AF & caters to white supremacy also. Hispanic/Latinos are not a monolithic group,not even close

karicort.bsky.social
@karicort.bsky.social

As a member of the Latino community, I am disgusted by the way that so many of them vote (I include family and friends). So dang right, ima call my people out. If white people held their own accountable throughout history, a lot of colonization wouldn’t have taken place.

karicort.bsky.social
@karicort.bsky.social

Also, as an Afro-Latina who has been witness to the anti-blackness, anti-indigenous, & anti-immigrant language within Latino circles, I am definitely going to say that many in our community need to stop voting for white supremacy.

sserna.bsky.social
@sserna.bsky.social

We can hold our own accountable without adding fuel to the fire at the same time and making white supremacy salivate as we devour ourselves whole and they remain unscathed.

JvB
@jaclynvon.bsky.social

I knew the other ICE agents around the shooters would be sure to give up the two names for fear they would be identified as participants in murder. However, the others ARE accessories to Alex Pretti’s murder. They also tackled, threw him to the ground & restrained him. All are guilty as sin.

JadeLove700🩵
@jadelove700.bsky.social

OMG! They're Latinos! Records show both men are from South Texas. Ochoa, who goes by Jesse, is a longtime resident of the Rio Grande Valley. He's also a gun enthusiast with about 25 rifles, pistols, and shotguns, according to his ex-wife.