Videos analyzed by The New York Times appear to contradict federal accounts of the shooting. The man, an I.C.U. nurse, was an American citizen with no criminal record, the city police chief said.
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The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office said it had joined Minnesota state officials in filing a federal lawsuit on Saturday night “seeking to prevent the destruction of evidence related to the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti.” The text of the lawsuit was not immediately available.
John Mitnick, who once was the head attorney at the Department of Homeland Security in the first Trump administration, criticized his former agency on Saturday night. “I am enraged and embarrassed by DHS’s lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty,” he wrote on social media.
Yes, NYT, the Donald administration lied.
I’ll give you a moment to wrap your head around this.
“Wow, these lies are so obvious. Why would you even cover them?”
An alternate reality:
“Of course the mainstream media is silent about Trump’s lies.”
I have little sympathy for the NYT over e.g. their deliberate whitewashing of Israel’s genocide, but holy fuck can they just not win on this front. It’s the press’ job to report when the president is lying to the public, regardless of how obvious it is.
They’re gonna need more than a moment to unpack their own lies about it.