Thanks for this, Clay. My late husband, a Swiss native, who saw the evolution of the Nazi regime across the river from his home, said many times that he was seeing the same thing here now. In a way, much as I miss him, I'm glad he doesn't have to see the same thing happening here in a nation of which he chose to become a citizen.
My father is Swiss and he was born in the fall of 1939. He grew up amidst all of that. It hasn't been so long that we shouldn't all know better. Secret police shooting citizens in the street is the most un-American thing I've ever heard of.
Assume just for a minute that the poor guy really did have a gun and that he was pointing it at an ICE person. After they took the supposed gun from the guy, just why did they then shoot him?? That makes zero sense. (Just shooting a guy because it was fun makes no sense either.)
I wonder if these people will ever pay for their actions. How can society assimilate them now? Look at the great behavior shown by many of those fine patriots who exercised their first and second amendment rights on that January 6th of infamy who were later pardoned. These guys are arguably worser.
Droog means friend in contemporary Russian (and Ukrainian). They no longer use tavarisch, at least in Ukraine. (I've never been to Russia, but have visited Ukraine twice.)
In this case, the fellow they shot was an American citizen and a nurse. It is not illegal to take photos or make videos of the police in action. Nor is it considered interference, at least in the legal sense.
Does anyone know what happened to the older gentleman in Buffalo who got knocked down and suffered a brain injury during the protests after the murder in Minneapolis of George Floyd? Did he recover?
I so thoroughly and deeply hate these people. They have found some of the worst of American (sub)humanity and given them the authority, weaponry and freedom to act out their violent fantasies and grudges against the "liberals".
Thanks, Clay, for the great toon, and sorry for embellishing it with my attitude. But it was the perfect opportunity to spread the reason to push it in the face of the GOP. Everyone needs to keep pushing the lies, hate, and immigrants that now encompass the GOP platform.
I live about a mile or so down the road from where he was murdered by the frozen goons. That area of Nicollet Avenue is known as Eat Street, a popular destination for diverse cafes, restaurants, and specialty grocery stores. It's sickening to see these lawless goons wreak havoc on my home city, and its suburbs as well, to enact the power fantasies of one deranged man.
There is another video, new angle. Facts to be determined with time and transparency.
It appears to show the agents pushing another person first while Alex Petti is filming with his phone. He gets involved in the middle of the scrum of agents which devolves into a pounding and beating, victims pushed to the ground. At one point an agent has grabbed a pistol and walks away from the group with the weapon. And then the shooting starts.
The version I watched stops before the shooting, but in the other angle there is one agent who fires multiple times, waits, fires again when the victim is definitely down. He was on the ground when the shooting started, getting a pounding by a large group.
And its just amazing that members of this administration can immediately claim he's a known domestic terrorist and that the agents were acting in self defense.
Call, write, text your Senators and Representatives.
Demand a full, complete & INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION!!!
I have heard it reported that Alex was trying to protect another protester when the brawl started and that he was licensed to carry but hadn't drawn his weapon. Now this evening Bondi is saying all this ICE activity is punishment for not turning over the Minnesota voter rolls. I am frightened and angry. I keep hoping that there are more of us to resist, than they can ever hire to do the dirty job of ICE.
Generally, when a cop grabs a pistol, it was a pistol dropped by another cop. Demand the registration and possession ID's. Long odds it was a cops, if it was a pistol.
What I saw was a bunch of masked guys beating the sh*t out of a guy on the ground. Then one of the masked guys shoots the guy on the ground and the others all scatter.
NINE SHOTS FIRED BY FUCKING NAZI ICE THUGS INTO A MAN WITH A CELL PHONE. THIS VA ICU NURSE, WHO BRAVELY TRIED TO RESCUE A WOMAN WHO WAS BEING ATTACKED AND PEPPER SPRAYED BY THESE SAME THUGS.
THIS BRAVE MAN NEVER EVEN TOUCHED HIS LEGALLY CARRIED WEAPON. HE WAS MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD BY THE SAME THUGS WHO WERE PARDONED BY THE ORANGE ASSHOLE AFTER THE INSURRECTION ON JANUARY 6TH. WTAF??
ALL OF THIS DONE BY THUGS TO FORCE MINNESOTA OFFICIALS TO TURN OVER VOTER INFORMATION! IT WAS NEVER ABOUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, ALWAYS ABOUT SCREWING THE VOTERS!
WHAT MORE DO PEOPLE NEED TO SEE TO HAVE THE ENTIRE EXECUTIVE BRANCH ARRESTED, TRIED AND IMPRISONED FOR TREASON? WHAT MORE?
I am so horrified (again, for the thousandth time, if that's even a word) by what is happening in our country!! Even if he had a gun, which is perfectly legal in Minnesota - both concealed and open carry - he did not aim it at anyone. These thugs are just vicious, dickless murderers having fun playing games at the expense of the citizens of Minneapolis. Fuck them all.
This is going to just add to the pressure to shut down the government. And there is no point. There is no possible way the RWNJ's will ever admit Trump's stormtroopers are randomly murdering people as a fear tactic, so it would do nothing besides block tax refunds. Which the RWNJ's would like because they could actually blame Democrats for something real.
It's a damn sad day when brutal murder by brownshirt thugs is treated like a political sideshow.
Thanks for this, Clay. My late husband, a Swiss native, who saw the evolution of the Nazi regime across the river from his home, said many times that he was seeing the same thing here now. In a way, much as I miss him, I'm glad he doesn't have to see the same thing happening here in a nation of which he chose to become a citizen.
My father is Swiss and he was born in the fall of 1939. He grew up amidst all of that. It hasn't been so long that we shouldn't all know better. Secret police shooting citizens in the street is the most un-American thing I've ever heard of.
My husband was born 1930. Yes, it is the most un-American thing we've seen, but not that they had seen. We should pay attention to them IMHO.
I don't know what to say.
This has got to fucking STOP NOW!!!
Here’s the thing.
Assume just for a minute that the poor guy really did have a gun and that he was pointing it at an ICE person. After they took the supposed gun from the guy, just why did they then shoot him?? That makes zero sense. (Just shooting a guy because it was fun makes no sense either.)
I wonder if these people will ever pay for their actions. How can society assimilate them now? Look at the great behavior shown by many of those fine patriots who exercised their first and second amendment rights on that January 6th of infamy who were later pardoned. These guys are arguably worser.
Many of them are doubtless the same people.
Want some disturbing entertainment? Go watch "A Clockwork Orange". The parts about the droogs becoming thug cops are happening now in reality.
Droog means friend in contemporary Russian (and Ukrainian). They no longer use tavarisch, at least in Ukraine. (I've never been to Russia, but have visited Ukraine twice.)
In this case, the fellow they shot was an American citizen and a nurse. It is not illegal to take photos or make videos of the police in action. Nor is it considered interference, at least in the legal sense.
Does anyone know what happened to the older gentleman in Buffalo who got knocked down and suffered a brain injury during the protests after the murder in Minneapolis of George Floyd? Did he recover?
I so thoroughly and deeply hate these people. They have found some of the worst of American (sub)humanity and given them the authority, weaponry and freedom to act out their violent fantasies and grudges against the "liberals".
I was watching like earlier today...I am so sickened by the reality. I wish they would all freeze.
Lying is going to cause words to lose meaning. "Terrorist" will mean nothing. Would ICE were frozen in place.
"Terrorist" became meaningless when Trump started using it to describe "anyone against me" nearly a decade ago.
It's just noise now. The dictionary definition has flown away, never to return.
Geez, I am so angry and sad, again today! This HAS TO STOP!!!! ALL of this ICE shit is SO UNAMERICAN!
Thanks, Clay, for the great toon, and sorry for embellishing it with my attitude. But it was the perfect opportunity to spread the reason to push it in the face of the GOP. Everyone needs to keep pushing the lies, hate, and immigrants that now encompass the GOP platform.
I live about a mile or so down the road from where he was murdered by the frozen goons. That area of Nicollet Avenue is known as Eat Street, a popular destination for diverse cafes, restaurants, and specialty grocery stores. It's sickening to see these lawless goons wreak havoc on my home city, and its suburbs as well, to enact the power fantasies of one deranged man.
There is another video, new angle. Facts to be determined with time and transparency.
It appears to show the agents pushing another person first while Alex Petti is filming with his phone. He gets involved in the middle of the scrum of agents which devolves into a pounding and beating, victims pushed to the ground. At one point an agent has grabbed a pistol and walks away from the group with the weapon. And then the shooting starts.
The version I watched stops before the shooting, but in the other angle there is one agent who fires multiple times, waits, fires again when the victim is definitely down. He was on the ground when the shooting started, getting a pounding by a large group.
And its just amazing that members of this administration can immediately claim he's a known domestic terrorist and that the agents were acting in self defense.
Call, write, text your Senators and Representatives.
Demand a full, complete & INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION!!!
For Alex Petti and Renee Good.
I have heard it reported that Alex was trying to protect another protester when the brawl started and that he was licensed to carry but hadn't drawn his weapon. Now this evening Bondi is saying all this ICE activity is punishment for not turning over the Minnesota voter rolls. I am frightened and angry. I keep hoping that there are more of us to resist, than they can ever hire to do the dirty job of ICE.
Generally, when a cop grabs a pistol, it was a pistol dropped by another cop. Demand the registration and possession ID's. Long odds it was a cops, if it was a pistol.
Alex was legally carrying a pistol and did not pull it. Murder all the same.
Also, Clay, I should mention that I LOVE this cartoon. It's not nice to fool Mother Nature, thugs!
I watched the video. Watch it yourself
What I saw was a bunch of masked guys beating the sh*t out of a guy on the ground. Then one of the masked guys shoots the guy on the ground and the others all scatter.
That sounds like the video I saw. It was horrible.
There is a massive difference between Justice and Just Ice.
NINE SHOTS FIRED BY FUCKING NAZI ICE THUGS INTO A MAN WITH A CELL PHONE. THIS VA ICU NURSE, WHO BRAVELY TRIED TO RESCUE A WOMAN WHO WAS BEING ATTACKED AND PEPPER SPRAYED BY THESE SAME THUGS.
THIS BRAVE MAN NEVER EVEN TOUCHED HIS LEGALLY CARRIED WEAPON. HE WAS MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD BY THE SAME THUGS WHO WERE PARDONED BY THE ORANGE ASSHOLE AFTER THE INSURRECTION ON JANUARY 6TH. WTAF??
ALL OF THIS DONE BY THUGS TO FORCE MINNESOTA OFFICIALS TO TURN OVER VOTER INFORMATION! IT WAS NEVER ABOUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, ALWAYS ABOUT SCREWING THE VOTERS!
WHAT MORE DO PEOPLE NEED TO SEE TO HAVE THE ENTIRE EXECUTIVE BRANCH ARRESTED, TRIED AND IMPRISONED FOR TREASON? WHAT MORE?
"Don't shout. Can't hear you." - Firesign Theater
It seems a pretty clear case of suicide. Like Allende, pausing to reload. Twice. According to Pinochet.
First report I heard the shot was fired by a single shooter. Now it's two.
I am so horrified (again, for the thousandth time, if that's even a word) by what is happening in our country!! Even if he had a gun, which is perfectly legal in Minnesota - both concealed and open carry - he did not aim it at anyone. These thugs are just vicious, dickless murderers having fun playing games at the expense of the citizens of Minneapolis. Fuck them all.
Actually, Mary, I think many of the ICE guys are incels. Maybe getting them fucked would help? Just sayin'.
This is going to just add to the pressure to shut down the government. And there is no point. There is no possible way the RWNJ's will ever admit Trump's stormtroopers are randomly murdering people as a fear tactic, so it would do nothing besides block tax refunds. Which the RWNJ's would like because they could actually blame Democrats for something real.
It's a damn sad day when brutal murder by brownshirt thugs is treated like a political sideshow.