Alex Pretti, the ICU nurse who was shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent this weekend, suffered a broken rib during a previous encounter with federal officers, according to a report.

A week before his death, Pretti, 37, had a rib broken when a group of federal officers tackled him as he was protesting their detention of other people, sources told CNN.

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    I don’t give a fuck if he had contact with them every fucking day for a year. He was murdered by a fucking fascist boot licker.

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      The point is that this indicates it may have been premeditated and he was targeted when they recognized him.

      THAT is much worse than the shit show we already have.

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        And is confirmation of many concerns of them cross correlating disparate databases in order to target individuals they have a vendetta against.

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          An organization coordinating like that to target individuals for retaliation also seem to start to get into things like RICO.

          And before some dumbass comes in here talking about “no because government”… The courts have removed qualified immunity for less in the past.

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      I don’t think fascist book licker is a strong enough term to convey what these individuals are. Something like “Nazi pedophile” might be better, even if it’s just by association to their owners. They need to know who they truely are.

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    While Pretti’s name was known to federal agents, according to the CNN source, it is unclear if the new intake form was used to share his information.

    “We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous,” Homan said.

    Homan was sent to Minneapolis Tuesday by the president in an apparent effort to calm tensions in the state.

    One video, taken in Maine and shared on social media last Friday, showed a federal agent recording a license plate of a woman watching their operations and telling her: “We have a nice little database and now you are considered a domestic terrorist.”

    "There is NO database of ‘domestic terrorists’ run by DHS. We do of course monitor and investigate and refer all threats, assaults and obstruction of our officers to the appropriate law enforcement. Obstructing and assaulting law enforcement is a felony and a federal crime,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told CNN.

    Way to side step the fucking point, Trish.

    “We don’t run the database. We just collect data that gets added to it and then use that database we helped create to target Americans who make the mistake of thinking their rights matter… It’s run by Palantir.”

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    “We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous,” Homan said.

    Wow. That is a direct threat to kill protesters. That’s when we hear their names is when ICE kills them.

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    Man who volunteered to observe ICE in action has had interactions with ICE while doing so. More news at 6

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            The comment is removed now but he was saying that after breaking a rib, the last thing he would be able to do is “puppy pile” (which is maybe furry for dog pile?) a lady to protect her because it would hurt his ribs too much. He felt like this made the story fishy.

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              “Puppy pile” is a tactic in nonviolent direct action that which involves protesters linking arms, sitting, or lying together in a tight, interlocked group to create a, dense physical barrier, this technique is used to obstruct, delay, or protect a space, or person

              Definitely not trolling, but I thought people here knew what that was. I guess there are more furry suspicious people here than people who engage in trained civil disobedience.

              Also, typed from phone probably failed to check auto correction

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                Thanks for the info. This may be the first time on lemmy that defaulting to “assume unfamiliar terms involving animals relate to fur or adjacent communities” has led me to the classic problem with assuming.

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              Ah. Now I get it. I get the downvotes, because he phrased it like jibberish. I don’t get why mods removed it.