A second murder in a week of peoples lives. Alex Pretti, an intensive care nurse, who went to the aid of protecting a woman pushed to the ground by ICE. He was shot, point blank, 10 times. We all saw it.
“The victims are Border Patrol agents,” Gregory Bovino, a senior Border Patrol official, told CNN’s “State of the Union” program.Trump has defended the operations as necessary to reduce crime and enforce immigration laws.
“Our ability to participate in witnessing, to corroborate each other’s commonsense, to assure one another that, no, you are not crazy, they did just ‘fucking kill that guy,’ is a threat to the Administration’s assumption of total power, not only over events but over how those events are interpreted and made into history,” Vinson Cunningham writes. “Their untroubled and automatic dishonesty, amid so much shared evidence, gives rise to a horrible question: If this is what they do when we can see, what’s going on in the places—planes and cars, detention centers—where we can’t? Read more about the display of brute power revealed by videos of Pretti’s fatal shooting: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/zZzDnc
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