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.
I agree but want to say I think we really need to drop the “untrained” vocabulary. This implies there is some level of training that would “fix” some of the problems with SS troops.
This vocabulary is coming from Cops and Democrat politicians. They want to fix the SS by making sure they have more mandatory training that they will only use to terrorize people better.