Charge Joe Biden, Biden Cabinet, Biden Administration, Communist Democrats, Kamala Harris, Walz Tampax, Garland, Mayorkas, Buttigieg, Nancy Pelosi, Chucky Schumer, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Ocasio Cortez, Anthony Fauci, Gavin Newscum, KarenBass, Maxine Waters, Elizabeth Warren, Burnie Sanders, Andrew Cuomo, Ihan Omer, progressive bureaucrats, judicial activist judges/AGs, leftist Governors, Mayors of Treason, domestic terrorism, insighting and supporting insurrection and violent protest, allowing illegal aliens to cross the border, human trafficking, drugs, money laundering scheme, Americans killed by illegal aliens, abused, fraud and waste of taxpayers money, and violations of the U.S. Constitution, and Oath of office. These worthless politicians must be charged, arrested, prosecuted, and jailed for life or death.
When this rare event is considered in the totality of all the encounters with lawless protests going back 10 years, the performance of the law-enforcement officers has been exemplary. If we need hard cold data, perhaps we should compare the performance under Obama encounters with the performance under Trump encounters.
I don’t know yet all the facts about this shooting. But one thing I do know is that the left went berserk from Day 1 about Trump’s immigration policies. Since the first ICE operation, they have attacked ICE physically, surrounded the agents with violent mobs, thrown rocks and shot industrial-grade fireworks at them, followed them, doxxed them, threatened their families, blocked them with cars and hit them with vehicles. They are convinced that their alleged moral superiority excuses any and all conduct, including violence. They also have become accustomed since the BLM/Antifa orgy of violent chaos in 2020 to rioting, looting, committing arson, destroying private and public property, and threatening or physically attacking law enforcement officers, knowing there would be no real consequences. After all, Democrat politicians made sure of that by playing wingman, and their media poodles made excuses for the “mostly peaceful protesters,” when they weren’t actually cheering them on. And the left has done everything possible to ratchet up the volume and increase the threats and violent rhetoric of the suspiciously well-funded, increasingly violent groups, as well as openly engaging in increasingly violent behavior. It was crystal clear from the first that if they continued, someone was going to get hurt. So regardless of the legal fault from yesterday’s shooting, it was an entirely predictable event, and the violent, toxic environment in which it took place is on the left and their complicit Democrat politicians and media enablers.
My point about Kyle Rittenhouse is that he did it right, for one. And two, he wasn't convicted for having a firearm at a protest. In other words, what the political talking heads are saying is inconsistent with the precedent that has been established.
In my opinion, I do think that ICE is in error in this case. Applying Occam's razor, there was only one gun recovered, but there were multiple magazines. I think the ICE agent fired while Alex Pretti may have been trying to transfer his magazines to ICE. There are numerous officer involved shootings where people have been shot turning over a weapon after disclosing it to police. In this emotionally/socially charged environment, it is easy to see how a mistake could have been made.
I appreciate your objectivity, and I agree, this administration needs to tone down the rhetoric, as does the Minnesota government. Hopefully the call between Waltz and Trump was good, and that it will result in a deescalation of all social pressure and emotions. The narrative around illegal immigration enforcement needs to be diffused, otherwise we may end up with an Archduke Ferdinand scenario or USS Maine scenario that trips off the country to kinetic warfare, and if we can learn anything from the Spanish Civil War, those wounds don't heal easily.
“The firearm matters—and the media is hiding it. At the Minneapolis Border Patrol shooting, the suspect was armed with a SIG Sauer P320 AXG Combat, a high-capacity 9mm pistol with a threaded barrel, extended 20–21 round magazine, and a SIG Romeo optic—a setup costing $1,500–$2,000. This was not a cheap carry gun.
“Officers were in a physical struggle with an armed suspect when a gun was perceived and the word “gun” was shouted. Under settled self-defense law, officers are entitled to rely on fellow officers’ reasonable perceptions. They do not have to personally confirm the threat.
“Once a firearm appears during active resistance, the legal standard is simple: reasonable perception of imminent deadly force. That standard was met here. Freeze-frame activism doesn’t override real-time dynamics, and the law does not require officers to wait to be shot. This was a tragic—but lawful—use of force.”
With so much going on in these videos, one point that an agent takes it from the man and seen point it at the ground. Some said it went off, and others said it was murder by ICE. IMO if you kept your camera out of the agent's way (Piss-poor choice) things could have ended differently...
Dana, our nation needs you to find a way to put a bug in these foolish spokespersons' ears, because they are ceding our high ground with their careless messaging.
Thanks for your excellent take on this. As usual you are concise, logical and sane. [please don't think I'm damning you with faint praise, sanity seems to be tragically absent from far too many conversations these days]
One thing is certain, mistakes were made. Starting with, and to your point, local leaders not cooperating with ICE detainers, a man who opted to carry a concealed handgun to a protest possibly without the permit or ID, interfering with CBP agents leading to the chain of events facilitating in his death.
You brought up some good and fair questions that have to be answered by an independent investigation.
I have seen it reported that it is *not* legal to carry a firearm to a protest under Minnesota gun-control laws. Also that Minnesota law requires carrying ID while carrying a firearm, and that the deceased was not carrying ID. I don't know about the truth of these claims, but it seems important to verify, one way or the other.
Regardless, do local officials have a right to complain about the outcome of federal law enforcement, if they don't have local law enforcement on site enforcing local laws? That is, why are they allowing carrying guns at protests without ID if both are illegal?
Because that's what criminals do. It's called "crime" when you break the law. Only crazy people and stupid people think crime is ok. It may not be a federal crime to carry a gun at a protest, but it is a crime to kill a law enforcement officer. If a law enforcement officer is threatened with deadly force, that officer is entitled to defend himself. If you think local law enforcement should enforce local laws, then I encourage you to petition the local government to do so. That way no one else brings guns to protests. But I don't think local law enforcement is interested in enforcing their own laws.
Charge Joe Biden, Biden Cabinet, Biden Administration, Communist Democrats, Kamala Harris, Walz Tampax, Garland, Mayorkas, Buttigieg, Nancy Pelosi, Chucky Schumer, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Ocasio Cortez, Anthony Fauci, Gavin Newscum, KarenBass, Maxine Waters, Elizabeth Warren, Burnie Sanders, Andrew Cuomo, Ihan Omer, progressive bureaucrats, judicial activist judges/AGs, leftist Governors, Mayors of Treason, domestic terrorism, insighting and supporting insurrection and violent protest, allowing illegal aliens to cross the border, human trafficking, drugs, money laundering scheme, Americans killed by illegal aliens, abused, fraud and waste of taxpayers money, and violations of the U.S. Constitution, and Oath of office. These worthless politicians must be charged, arrested, prosecuted, and jailed for life or death.
When this rare event is considered in the totality of all the encounters with lawless protests going back 10 years, the performance of the law-enforcement officers has been exemplary. If we need hard cold data, perhaps we should compare the performance under Obama encounters with the performance under Trump encounters.
I don’t know yet all the facts about this shooting. But one thing I do know is that the left went berserk from Day 1 about Trump’s immigration policies. Since the first ICE operation, they have attacked ICE physically, surrounded the agents with violent mobs, thrown rocks and shot industrial-grade fireworks at them, followed them, doxxed them, threatened their families, blocked them with cars and hit them with vehicles. They are convinced that their alleged moral superiority excuses any and all conduct, including violence. They also have become accustomed since the BLM/Antifa orgy of violent chaos in 2020 to rioting, looting, committing arson, destroying private and public property, and threatening or physically attacking law enforcement officers, knowing there would be no real consequences. After all, Democrat politicians made sure of that by playing wingman, and their media poodles made excuses for the “mostly peaceful protesters,” when they weren’t actually cheering them on. And the left has done everything possible to ratchet up the volume and increase the threats and violent rhetoric of the suspiciously well-funded, increasingly violent groups, as well as openly engaging in increasingly violent behavior. It was crystal clear from the first that if they continued, someone was going to get hurt. So regardless of the legal fault from yesterday’s shooting, it was an entirely predictable event, and the violent, toxic environment in which it took place is on the left and their complicit Democrat politicians and media enablers.
It’s posted on X by Juanita Broadrick that MN Lt Gov Peggy Flanagan serves on admins of Signal Chat, which places MN Govt in support of the protests!!
Que Kyle Rittenhouse.
My point about Kyle Rittenhouse is that he did it right, for one. And two, he wasn't convicted for having a firearm at a protest. In other words, what the political talking heads are saying is inconsistent with the precedent that has been established.
In my opinion, I do think that ICE is in error in this case. Applying Occam's razor, there was only one gun recovered, but there were multiple magazines. I think the ICE agent fired while Alex Pretti may have been trying to transfer his magazines to ICE. There are numerous officer involved shootings where people have been shot turning over a weapon after disclosing it to police. In this emotionally/socially charged environment, it is easy to see how a mistake could have been made.
I appreciate your objectivity, and I agree, this administration needs to tone down the rhetoric, as does the Minnesota government. Hopefully the call between Waltz and Trump was good, and that it will result in a deescalation of all social pressure and emotions. The narrative around illegal immigration enforcement needs to be diffused, otherwise we may end up with an Archduke Ferdinand scenario or USS Maine scenario that trips off the country to kinetic warfare, and if we can learn anything from the Spanish Civil War, those wounds don't heal easily.
“The firearm matters—and the media is hiding it. At the Minneapolis Border Patrol shooting, the suspect was armed with a SIG Sauer P320 AXG Combat, a high-capacity 9mm pistol with a threaded barrel, extended 20–21 round magazine, and a SIG Romeo optic—a setup costing $1,500–$2,000. This was not a cheap carry gun.
“Officers were in a physical struggle with an armed suspect when a gun was perceived and the word “gun” was shouted. Under settled self-defense law, officers are entitled to rely on fellow officers’ reasonable perceptions. They do not have to personally confirm the threat.
“Once a firearm appears during active resistance, the legal standard is simple: reasonable perception of imminent deadly force. That standard was met here. Freeze-frame activism doesn’t override real-time dynamics, and the law does not require officers to wait to be shot. This was a tragic—but lawful—use of force.”
Andrew F. Branca, Attorney
Thanks, atty. The split second determination of reasonable of using a weapon given the totality of evidence.
With so much going on in these videos, one point that an agent takes it from the man and seen point it at the ground. Some said it went off, and others said it was murder by ICE. IMO if you kept your camera out of the agent's way (Piss-poor choice) things could have ended differently...
Dana, our nation needs you to find a way to put a bug in these foolish spokespersons' ears, because they are ceding our high ground with their careless messaging.
Thanks for your excellent take on this. As usual you are concise, logical and sane. [please don't think I'm damning you with faint praise, sanity seems to be tragically absent from far too many conversations these days]
One thing is certain, mistakes were made. Starting with, and to your point, local leaders not cooperating with ICE detainers, a man who opted to carry a concealed handgun to a protest possibly without the permit or ID, interfering with CBP agents leading to the chain of events facilitating in his death.
You brought up some good and fair questions that have to be answered by an independent investigation.
I have seen it reported that it is *not* legal to carry a firearm to a protest under Minnesota gun-control laws. Also that Minnesota law requires carrying ID while carrying a firearm, and that the deceased was not carrying ID. I don't know about the truth of these claims, but it seems important to verify, one way or the other.
Regardless, is it the prerogative of federal officers to enforce local laws that are more restrictive than federal laws?
Regardless, do local officials have a right to complain about the outcome of federal law enforcement, if they don't have local law enforcement on site enforcing local laws? That is, why are they allowing carrying guns at protests without ID if both are illegal?
Because that's what criminals do. It's called "crime" when you break the law. Only crazy people and stupid people think crime is ok. It may not be a federal crime to carry a gun at a protest, but it is a crime to kill a law enforcement officer. If a law enforcement officer is threatened with deadly force, that officer is entitled to defend himself. If you think local law enforcement should enforce local laws, then I encourage you to petition the local government to do so. That way no one else brings guns to protests. But I don't think local law enforcement is interested in enforcing their own laws.
Of course not. That was my point. Criticizing the leftist politicians blaming the federal government for the results of their own failures.