Getting people to deny the evidence of their own eyes, though, is more difficult. Anyone who has seen the harrowing footage of the [slaying of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis](https://inews.co.uk/news/trump-dangerous-lies-minneapolis-ice-alex-pretti-4193280?ico=in-line_link), at the hands of ICE officers, will know what they saw – a man, pinned to the ground by agents and posing no threat to them, is shot ten times in the back.
Alex Pretti is just about the worst victim possible for the Trump White House. He was a 37-year-old straight white man, who worked in an intensive care unit treating American veterans.
On the day he was killed, he was legally carrying a firearm – a fact several senior Trump officials tried to use to justify his killing, a tactic that rapidly backfired, given Republicans’ strong support for the right to bear arms and the party’s reliance on political and financial support from the National Rifle Association.
Just a few weeks ago, when [Renee Good was shot dead in her car](https://inews.co.uk/news/what-videos-of-ice-tell-us-4159532?ico=in-line_link), Maga and its media outriders used her lesbianism to other her – with Trump’s Department of Justice launching a criminal investigation into Good’s wife, but not into the man who shot her. So far, they are struggling to find a similar reason to demonise Pretti, though not for lack of trying.
Pretti’s death puts a simple fact in ever more stark relief: when most Americans see pictures and videos of Trump’s occupations of American cities, they hate what they are seeing. This was true when it was Los Angeles, Portland and Chicago, and it’s certainly true of the awful pictures appearing daily of ICE activities.
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give it a week
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For every white person killed…
blackmobius on
If he can be convinced that ICE is ruining his reputation, he *might* consider pulling them back. But that would be the only reason. Not that they are lawless, not that they arent deporting enough people, not that they arent domestic state sponsored terrorists, but if they make him look bad enough he will pull them back because of his ego
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Keep up the pressure. Never give up. Never give in. America cannot give in to an authoritarian.
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Some things are easier to spin than others. It is not that difficult to convince a large number of Americans that the mainstream media is “fake news”, or that the Democratic Party is “woke”. It is eminently possible to persuade people, in the face of fact, that prices are coming down and [the economy](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/trump-astonishingly-bad-polling-not-gods-gift-americans-4182228?ico=in-line_link) is booming.
Getting people to deny the evidence of their own eyes, though, is more difficult. Anyone who has seen the harrowing footage of the [slaying of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis](https://inews.co.uk/news/trump-dangerous-lies-minneapolis-ice-alex-pretti-4193280?ico=in-line_link), at the hands of ICE officers, will know what they saw – a man, pinned to the ground by agents and posing no threat to them, is shot ten times in the back.
[Donald Trump](https://inews.co.uk/topic/donald-trump?ico=in-line_link) and those around him are trying every trick in their repertoire to convince at least their own supporters that the killing is justified, was Pretti’s own fault, or was at least the fault of Minneapolis’s Democratic mayor Jacob Frey, or the state’s governor, [Tim Walz](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/family-lives-minneapolis-ice-shootings-alex-pretti-4193147?ico=in-line_link). But those tricks are only taking them so far.
Alex Pretti is just about the worst victim possible for the Trump White House. He was a 37-year-old straight white man, who worked in an intensive care unit treating American veterans.
On the day he was killed, he was legally carrying a firearm – a fact several senior Trump officials tried to use to justify his killing, a tactic that rapidly backfired, given Republicans’ strong support for the right to bear arms and the party’s reliance on political and financial support from the National Rifle Association.
Just a few weeks ago, when [Renee Good was shot dead in her car](https://inews.co.uk/news/what-videos-of-ice-tell-us-4159532?ico=in-line_link), Maga and its media outriders used her lesbianism to other her – with Trump’s Department of Justice launching a criminal investigation into Good’s wife, but not into the man who shot her. So far, they are struggling to find a similar reason to demonise Pretti, though not for lack of trying.
Pretti’s death puts a simple fact in ever more stark relief: when most Americans see pictures and videos of Trump’s occupations of American cities, they hate what they are seeing. This was true when it was Los Angeles, Portland and Chicago, and it’s certainly true of the awful pictures appearing daily of ICE activities.
give it a week
For every white person killed…
If he can be convinced that ICE is ruining his reputation, he *might* consider pulling them back. But that would be the only reason. Not that they are lawless, not that they arent deporting enough people, not that they arent domestic state sponsored terrorists, but if they make him look bad enough he will pull them back because of his ego
Keep up the pressure. Never give up. Never give in. America cannot give in to an authoritarian.