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.
Ownership of a firearm is a constitutional right. So him simply having it is not justified in killing them. Cops keep forgetting they’re not the only ones allowed to have one for self defense.
Because they don’t need to remember that. They know they can shoot whoever they want with impunity as long as they follow a certain script.
“I feared for my safety so I wasted that [Insert derogatory adjetive][insert derogatory noun]”