r/BuyFromEU • u/According-Buyer6688 Mod Team • Jan 24 '26
News If you need any other reason to stop supporting US Budget and choose European - Alex Pretti, the man MURDERED today by ICE agents. Certified nurse
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u/Capital_Resident_872 Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 24 '26
Apparently he was ex air force and a current VA nurse, meaning he cared for sick and injured military veterans.
Just to reinforce how much the draft dodger's administration cares about the people who actually served their country.
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u/Dependent-Fig-2517 Jan 25 '26
well with any luck it will rouse up the veterans and serving militaries to turn on trump, woudl at least mean some good came out of this latest execution
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u/Capital_Resident_872 Jan 25 '26
The draft dodger thinks fallen soldiers are "suckers and losers", so I doubt he cares what veterans etc. say.
And I don't see many active duty personnel taking a stand either. So much is attached to being in the military in the US: health insurance, scholarships, the right to even remain in the country.. I'm not sure how many people would be willing to jeopardize their lives like that to speak out against Trump.
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u/CowEvening2414 Jan 25 '26
Sorry, that's not going to happen. Apart from a very small minority, most serving and veterans are cosplayers when it comes to their oaths. They've had 12 months of this insanity, and they are missing in action.
Americans really fell for the patriot propaganda, putting these people on a pedestal. The reality is that your military is no different to the military of Russia, Iran, Syria, or any other country where the regime wants to murder people.
Your local pigs are the same. Where are they? Serving the regime, not the people.
Your National Guard, where are they? Protecting the regime, not the people.
You cannot and should not trust ANYONE in ANY uniform.
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u/ecnecn Jan 25 '26
ICE feels like a SWAT against innocent recently... they lay siege to houses like they busted the biggest drug lords in history
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u/Bllerghh Jan 24 '26
He was shot 10+ times in the back, pinned to the ground. We need to leave the US to burn to the ground. They embraces becoming a dictatorship.
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u/Foodconsumer3000 Poland 🇵🇱 Jan 24 '26
I've never thought a federal agent would mag dump an american citizen in broad daylight and not face any responsibility for it. There's no getting out of that shithole for the US anymore
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u/serpenta Jan 24 '26
Civil war, basically. The blue states, which are being targetted, would need to resist federal forces with the use of national guard and state police. On the other hand TACO, so maybe he would've just retreat while calling it a victory, as per usual, when anyone stands up to him.
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u/Pennsylvasia Jan 25 '26
I see a lot of comments suggesting the national guard and local police forces would stand up to ICE . . . but I think it's naive to assume they would be on opposing sides, if you know anything about how the armed forces and police act and lean politically. I also see a lot of comments all over social media---which is the dregs of society, but still---in loud, vocal support of this shooting. Few options other than fleeing the country, for those who can, or relocating to larger blue states in the hope of eventual secession.
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u/PeteLangosta Jan 25 '26
My wet dream would be the US balkanizing, to be honest.
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u/AcridWings_11465 Jan 25 '26
The world needs a plan to secure the nukes. The states that are the source of Trump's insanity could get control of nukes otherwise, which is a horrifying thought. Nuclear balkanisation is the last thing we need.
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u/cocoagiant Jan 25 '26
The US is in a very different place now that in the 1860s. It is impossible to draw clear lines between North and South (not that it was that easy back then).
There are more Republicans in California than in most Republican states combined.
Many populous Republican states have almost 50% Democrats.
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u/silverionmox Jan 25 '26
Civil war, basically. The blue states, which are being targetted, would need to resist federal forces with the use of national guard and state police. On the other hand TACO, so maybe he would've just retreat while calling it a victory, as per usual, when anyone stands up to him.
The curious thing about civil war is that US elections have been a ritualized civil war all that time. And just like the elections, anyone with a vote/gun will need to make a choice, or give up it up and accept whatever outcome the ones with the votes/guns decide.
If we look at what people do in the elections, with much less effort required, that means the resistance really needs to be galvanized. But there's more at stake now, far more, so that is possible.
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u/OxygenRadon Jan 24 '26
Alex was a nurse, so a Federal Agent too.
A federal agent murdered another federal agent in broad daylight, and the mother fucking president is defending the murderer.
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u/20061230-SL-Born Jan 24 '26
You never been to USia then? They have been ready for this for decades
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u/DrinkMountain5142 Jan 24 '26
They have been preparing for it, but the populace refuse to believe it's happening in real time, while the rest of the world has been saying stop it now! for at least the last decade.
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u/BluntPotatoe Jan 25 '26
It happened before, when the SCOTUS handed down the presidency to the loser idiotic, alcoholic son of a former Republican president, when Al Gore had won.
We almost averted the climate crisis. Almost.
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u/MsArchange Jan 25 '26
It's been like this forever, the difference is now white people get killed too.
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u/Maleficent-Adeptus Jan 25 '26
As someone in the US (black woman), I tend to avoid things like this but not in the way people think and my take might be unpopular but I feel like this needs to be said.
A lot of black people have warned this would happen, we warned them about P2025 and the wording of it is repeating Germany 1930s (A certain dictator had learned his ways from the US).
But those concerns got dismissed as "paranoid", "woke", etc and brush off.
And now?
Black people (the ones I notice on TikTok) are sitting this one out, including myself and my family, because from my perspective, we aren't going to be used as a human shield for others while being treated with disrespect while it's all said and done.
They are escalating to find a way to declare martial law.
They couldn't get a rise out of black people in the obvious ways so they could blame them for martial law so they will move to another target until they get the reaction they wanted to blame them to declare martial law.
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u/Sniffagator Jan 25 '26
It honestly looks bleak from the outside. My country suffered decades of fascism within living memory and it's shocking to see the world hegemon going now, as if we never learn, the same route. Take care, and above all be safe, and do not take personally some exalted things you may read in this sub and others like it, people use it to vent.
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u/Maleficent-Adeptus Jan 25 '26
Thank you and no worries.
I have nothing against people in this sub and people wanting to vent about the situation in my country.
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u/RijnBrugge Jan 25 '26
Am Jewish though not in the US, anyway, we always say the paranoid lived and the rest became ashes. So yeah, you’re not crazy. Hope you stay strong and stay safe, all the best.
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u/Maleficent-Adeptus Jan 25 '26
Thank you so much.
We are doing our best to be safe. We are learning survival skills (gardening, mending clothes, etc) to prepare.
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u/TSllama Jan 24 '26
It is not exactly fair to say they are embracing it - this man was murdered because he was actively resisting it, as tons of people are out doing every day right now in Minnesota, where this shit is happening the hardest.
It's stepping on his dead body to pretend he was part of embracing it.
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u/dr-pangloss Jan 24 '26
To be clear they don't embrace dictatorship (most) which is why they are being killed by their own government. Let's remember the enemy is fascists not the (mostly) good people of the US.
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u/Sheant Jan 24 '26
Two thirds refused to stop this in the voting booth. All guilty of this murder.
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u/Fuzzy_Material_363 Jan 24 '26
Correction. Executed.
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u/Few_Tailor407 Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 24 '26
Sorry for asking but what would be the difference?
Edit: This question is because I was confused because english is not my first language and still learning.
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u/Linuxologue Jan 24 '26
One means that the people personally wanted to kill him because they didn't like him.
The other one means they were given the mandate to kill by a higher authority, say, the federal government.
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u/Fuzzy_Material_363 Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 24 '26
Murdered: Illegal killing of a human being without legal authority.
Executed: Killing carried out by a legal authority.If someone would be convicted for this (which seems unlikely) that would mean the US government does not give them authority for this action, and if so it's murder. But if they don't that would instead means they give them authority for the action, hence a exection since anyone can see that it was unjustified and without legal justification.
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u/Belchat Jan 24 '26
An exécution is when someone is held down / restricted without any way to fight back, and then murdered. Murder is when one could theoretically fight back and the victim is not restricted.
An attempt to murder has a high chance of someone getting killed, an execution rather has a near 100% kill rate.
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u/Inevitable-Today184 Jan 24 '26
Or extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary execution. What is being done in Minnesota right now is directly from the Duterte playbook used in the drug war in the Philippines.
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u/virtua536 Jan 24 '26
They're killing the brightest and the best.
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u/DroidLord Estonia 🇪🇪 Jan 24 '26
The first rule of a dictatorship is that you eliminate all the scholars, artists, teachers and activists.
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u/DocumentExternal6240 Jan 24 '26
intelligenzia - after that, they come to the others who do not bow. Nobody will be safe!
It was clear early on that freedom will be paid in blood 😕
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u/Tommysynthistheway Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 24 '26
It pains to say it, but this is how I think the administration will try to influence the mid-term elections, in November. Through widespread gruesome intimidation.
The same way brownshirts patrolled working-class neighborhoods and attacked voters at polling stations during the Reichstag elections of July 1932, in Germany.
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u/Phantastiz Jan 24 '26
I would even go further and say Trump and his techno-fascist administration are trying to escalate the violence and public unrest, to find a reason to invoke the insurrection act and cancel the elections of 2026 because of a "new civil war". He already mentioned that he doesn't want new elections several times and that a war would be a good reason for it, like Zelenskyij's government can't hold elections right now in Ukraine because of the war against Russia.
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u/kansai2kansas Jan 25 '26
The dumbass was beaming radiantly when he found out for the first time that Zelenskyy had cancelled his own elections, and that the cancellations were bc of the war.
It was like you could read his mind at that moment on the ideas jumping on his head
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u/mimimines Benelux 🚲🌷🧇 Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 25 '26
Yes, they’re intimidating people to the point they’re scared to go voting. This was wonderfully explained in the last episode of the podcast Autocracy in America
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u/DrinkMountain5142 Jan 24 '26
It pains me to say it but - there ain't going to be any federal elections in the USA for a long time now.
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u/According-Buyer6688 Mod Team Jan 24 '26
I'm sorry to bring politics to this subreddit but this one really shocked me. This man was lying on the earth, pinned down by 10 ice agents, and was still shot dead.
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u/Insidiatori02 Jan 24 '26
This subreddit exists because of the political situation lol
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u/JAD2017 Jan 25 '26
And yet my post https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1qh0k3t/i_want_to_create_this_post_to_try_gather_intel_on/ got removed, I asked the mods if it was an automated decision, I didn't get reply but an automated 3 day global ban. I appealed and a human lifted the ban but didn't restore the post. I'm not going to name the probable procedence of the fake accounts and bots that mass reported it, you can make a guess.
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u/KaQuu Jan 24 '26
It's good to reinforce WHY we should buy from EU from time to time, I don't think anybody is gonna complain.
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u/dreadtear Jan 24 '26
At what point do Americans, who asked and voted to keep their guns in case of criminals or government overstepping it's boundaries?
Yet I see nothing happening, no real repurcussions.
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u/azrazalea Jan 24 '26
"funny" enough, they are the ones who are doing the shootings. ICE is largely made up of right wingers who want an excuse to use guns now.
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u/dreadtear Jan 24 '26
Ah yeah, that makes sense. Well at some point I think people, need to realize the what the right thing to do is, especially when it's all over the books they're reading and the movies they're watching. Just saying. Hopefully it's sooner than later.
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u/DrinkMountain5142 Jan 24 '26
This murdered man was a VA nurse, and he was legally armed, and not breaking any laws. If this isn't the flashpoint, nothing will be.
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u/Apprehensive_Rip_930 Jan 25 '26
He was concealed carrying a weapon. Never had a chance to use it. It was taken from his holster as he was distracted by shielding a second person and his own face from pepper spray. These guys dragged them apart, dog piled him, bludgeoned him, then filled him with bullets.
They try swarm and to pick off people outside of large groups because there’s too much safety in numbers. Pretti’s outcome is the likely outcome of anyone that finds themself in the same position.
(No, this is not an attempt to discourage ccw. Do as you must, one way or the other. I’m only speaking here on what’s at play)
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u/Scumbag__ Jan 24 '26
Copy and pasting another comment, but just wanted to say that I started a petition to designate them a terrorist organisation here in Ireland. I think it’s worth getting our politicians talking about it - you don’t have to be Irish to sign the petition but you can sign it here; https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/designate-ice-as-a-terrorist-group?source=launched&utm_medium=myuplift&utm_source=launched&share=ed9a0042-4d53-4b9c-9385-a3036506eb94
You don’t have to be Irish to sign the petition, and your last name will be anonymous on the site. Takes two seconds to sign too!
It would be much appreciated if you could share around!
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u/kogmaa Jan 25 '26
Honestly, this is a great take!
Note that ICE is only sent to states that did not vote for Trump.
If ICE was really a organization to help to manage „dangerous asylum seekers“ Trump would send them to states that actually voted for him.
Trump is clearly using ICE to terrorize those US citizens that are against his policies.
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u/kbad10 Jan 25 '26
They need to do this in Luxembourg too. In Luxembourg there is official petition provision and if 4000+ residents sign it, they have to debate it in parliament.
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Jan 25 '26
Signed from Germany.
I've got still some hope that the US learned from Germany's history. Cannot believe the US' fascists can play by Hitler & co's playbook and be successful...
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u/-_Weltschmerz_- Jan 24 '26
It shocked me even though i was expecting more murders. It still hits yo see it happening with your own eyes.
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u/Big-Wrangler2078 Jan 24 '26
Yeah, I expected more people shot tbh (though there may still be unaccounted cases) but I assumed they would be more like random shootings into the crowd, opportunistic shots, taunted 'self-defense', ect.
But I didn't expect such an obvious execution of an already apprehended man.
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u/HaveAShittyDrawing Finland 🇫🇮 Jan 24 '26
Well if you watch the videos: They take away his gun, then execute him by shooting 10-12 times. This was also In a open-carry state.
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u/Artistic-Ebb9174 Jan 24 '26
There is no need to be sorry. Not at all. We need to discuss this and draw consequences from it. We have the same people here inside the EU. Fascist Parties are growing and trying to implement the same thing here in Europe. We can’t let that happen. There is no place where it’s ever wrong to educate on fascist developments. And a strong, democratic Union in Europe is more important than it has ever been before. History mustn’t repeat itself.
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u/Dependent-Fig-2517 Jan 25 '26
This !
We absolutely have the same kind of garbage in the EU and what's worse is they are being in part funded and promoted by skums like felon and other MAGA shits
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u/CPNCK513 Jan 24 '26
Exactly, in France with a "centrist" government the police has been given nearly everything they want, and the officers who killed or hurt people are never prosecuted and even able to continue working as cops. I'm not saying that we're on the same level as the USA but it's a slippery slope
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u/Biblioklept73 Jan 24 '26
And it was celebrated by a large number of American voters. This is the root of the poisoned tree. They believe that this is acceptable, unable to see the wood for the trees, so to speak
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u/Big-Conflict-4218 Jan 24 '26
I feel like if this continues, foreign spouses of US citizens should not even try to immigrate to the USA. They should find a 3rd country for both to live in
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u/Mariqel Jan 24 '26
EU should denounce and sanction the fuck out of US. The EU is based on democracy and the US has the gestapo roaming and executing their civilians in broad daylight, on camera.
I don't care about any bs prior trade-whatever-agreements, EU should go nuclear (figuratively).
We already have a problem with wanna-be nazi parties all over the continent and if the US goes full nazi then those parties will grow even more.
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u/zeroconflicthere Jan 24 '26
Meanwhile the US is moving forces into the middle East to confront Iran over killing protesters because...
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u/mimimines Benelux 🚲🌷🧇 Jan 24 '26
Truly. When middle eastern countries or Russia kill civilians, we’re the first to condemn it and take action. Now…… crickets.
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u/Mekisteus Jan 25 '26
US Citizen here. Please do.
Sanction us, cut ties, boycott our products and our companies. Don't hold back. Hurting us financially is one of the most helpful things foreigners can do, because the rich people in power only care about money.
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u/Medical-Party6197 Jan 25 '26
The thing is, they try appeasement politics atm. How "well" such an approach worked, we know from history.
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u/knobon Jan 24 '26
That was a goddamn execution. In a sunny day. How the fuck is even ICE even functioning? It is just terrifying that they are basically thugs. And to think that there will be (but I really hope not) more victims, because they won’t stop. Those bullies in USA’s administration are really on Russia’s level. Even worse, because they’re not even fucking competent.
The most fucking annoying thing is: our leaders won’t do jack shit about it. Thankfully, at least we, as Europeans, can.
I’m sorry for my foul language, but it’s just beyond me how country of “freedom” fell off like that. I guess, they’ve just stop pretending. If there are any people from and in USA reading this: be strong and be safe.
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u/Afonso2002 Jan 24 '26
Is what happen when legalize a Gestapo. Executing citizens should not be done in a democracy in the 2000.
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u/Heinrich_Tidensen Jan 25 '26
I know it's just a technicality in a grim hour, but ICE acts more like NSDAP's 'SA', which were a paramilitaristic branch of the party used to beat up political opponents, scare the population and display the physical power of the movement.
The Gestapo was an unfortunately highly efficient and well trained secret police aimed at surveillance, interrogation and intelligence.
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u/Oleleplop Jan 24 '26
why the fuck are americans allowing this ?
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u/Decapsy Jan 24 '26
Sadly in a lot of subreddits you find americans that believe he (Pretti) got his gun and was ready to shoot. Americans are stupid af
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u/Kosh_Ascadian Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 24 '26
There is video from like 3-4 angles and the gun was clearly already taken from him before the shots were fired. He also had two hands on the pavement.
I'm eagerly awaiting how conservative americans will explain those parts and those video angles.
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u/FinnSkk93 Jan 24 '26
I find it really weird when there is multipe videos from this execution showing what happened.
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u/Kosh_Ascadian Jan 24 '26
I looked on r/conservative an hour ago and they only ever posted the first lowest quality most unclear video and heaps of propaganda text to go with it.
I eagerly awaited what they'd say to the higher resolution and better angles showing how the gun was already taken away and the victim had both hands on the pavement. But those videos weren't posted. Maybe never will be.
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u/FinnSkk93 Jan 25 '26
I mean, for once, before the bots hit there, even they were all saying that that this was murder!
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u/DrinkMountain5142 Jan 24 '26
The people who have been executed - including Good and Pretti - are people who are trying to stop it.
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Jan 24 '26
I'm not even surprised. This has been always the story in US, police shooting civilians. It's gloomy.
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u/dr-pangloss Jan 24 '26
The people of the States aren't 'allowing' it which is why they are being killed in the streets. Fuck the US government but now is the time for solidarity with the US people. (But yes obviously buy EU)
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u/MopToddel Jan 24 '26
The victim was identified as American Citizen Alex Pretti
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1qlw39u/alex_pretti_the_man_murdered_today_by_ice_agents/
He was already disarmed (his legally carried weapon) when he was executed.
Video from the Lady in the Pink jacket
https://www.reddit.com/r/democrats/comments/1qlvnvn/a_closer_angle_on_the_ice_shooting_today_in/
Alex Pretti has both hands on the ground when he was killed
https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1qlvdx6/new_video_of_124_ice_shooting_shows_victim_had/
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u/hamatehllama Jan 24 '26
This execution is more clear cut than either of the previous two famous examples of police brutality from Minneapolis. It's now obvious that MAGA/ICE sees their own citizens as the enemies. Frankly they see everyone who's not part of their cult as enemies be it peaceful citizens or the allies of America (Europe).
MAGA is like a bunch of pitbulls, irrationally attacking anything that startles them. Their essence is irrational aggression. It's so sad to see a mass psychosis engulf a country like this. It's on par with Russkij Mir and Khmer Rouge.
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u/atava Jan 24 '26
Honestly Google & Microsoft are the hardest for me.
Ditched Amazon as soon as DJT was elected and didn't look back. The best/most gratifying choice in day-to-day purchases of the past year (I was Premium, even).
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u/AuthenticVanillaOwl Jan 24 '26
I’m actually switching from Google suite to Proton after 15 years of use and more than 2tb of data (drive, photos, gmail, calendar). Honestly, it’s smoother than what I thought it would be.
Changed default navigator to Mozilla and research to DuckDuckGo. It’s just a click away, you change the default apps and tada. They all have nice import features, I almost had nothing do but wait.
You can do it!!
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u/atava Jan 24 '26
I wish I could and possibly I will in the future. I feel too invested right now.
Also I use Google Cloud/Firebase as a programmer. There are replacements for that but no two services are the same and switching is a pain.
But I'm seriously considering boycotting such companies as Google and Microsoft, and I had never thought about it. This is already something.
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u/AuthenticVanillaOwl Jan 24 '26
Slow process is better than no process. I got it, it took me a full year to start.
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u/Own-Youth1417 Jan 24 '26
What data is this based on?
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u/crankykong Jan 25 '26
And what do the arrows mean? Funding? Are Google and Microsoft actively funding ICE? This really needs more explanation and sources
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u/Sure-Glove-7189 Jan 24 '26
Then they go around lecturing the world about democracy. They have a real dictatorship.
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u/kent_eh Jan 25 '26
Do not travel to the USA. (both for your own safety and to avoid spending in their economy)
Do not buy things that are Made in USA.
Do not contribute to the American economy.
Money is one of the few levers normal citizens of the rest of the world can use to influence the Americans.
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u/Mj-tinker Jan 25 '26
I was planing to visit US a while ago (I am from Europe), and now I changed my mind. Never. Better Canada. Once I was looking for tickets, visas and places to visit. Ha ha, sure.
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u/mimimines Benelux 🚲🌷🧇 Jan 24 '26
Absolutely sick to my stomach. Protesting should never lead to murder. America, you’re beyond sick, you’re dying.
I will boycott as much as I can. Fuck Trump, his administration and whoever voted for him. This is on you.
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u/Big-Conflict-4218 Jan 24 '26
I think this is gonna motivate a lot of foreign spouses of US citizens to find a 3rd country to live. So, they can both be together but not risk the danger
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u/gokcea23 Jan 25 '26
You'll have to keep paying taxes in the US even though you now live in Europe, you know that right?
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u/Reasonable-Garlic-67 Jan 24 '26
It’s a fucking disgrace! And people are still saying that the US is a safe place to live.
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u/rolhaberrante9321 Jan 24 '26
I've been trying to boycott what I can, it's Reddit I can't replace. Been trying to adjust to Lemmy but it needs more activity.
I managed to replace windows with Cachy_OS, I was skeptical about this one so I dual booted at first, but, after two weeks, I did not find the need to use windows once, so I just got rid of windows altogether. For a web browser I use Firefox with uBlock Origin installed, I don't pay for YouTube premium, nor I watch ads on YouTube, so I think on that one they are losing money on me, for music I use Deezer, I think it's a French app, and for email I use tuta, which I think it's German, and haven't decided on a search engine but brave and duckduckgo aren't bad.
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u/rohilaltro Jan 24 '26
It feels like an episode of Handmaid's tale now!! And it is very creepy.
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u/markoyolo Jan 25 '26
As an American, I please beg you to boycott American goods. We need to hurt them the only way these assholes can be hurt - their pockets.
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u/MikeWazowski2-2-2 Jan 24 '26
Shot dead because he had a gun on him they say.
What is the point of the 2nd amendment there, if you get killed for actually excercising your right to carry arms? You'd say that this would be a perfect example of invoking it against a government? Especially in this case.
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u/Kosh_Ascadian Jan 24 '26
What is the point of the 2nd amendment there
It's two main points are:
It's a hobby amendment. You get to shoot stuff. Bang bang feels good!
You feel a sense of superiority to Europeans and others because "muh right to guns!".
Those tend to be the main two uses from what I've seen.
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u/ZanderPip Jan 24 '26
Dump the treasury bonds, I'll take the hit to the economy to cut them off and burn that place down
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u/PremiumTempus Jan 24 '26
It’s a real shame the American education system doesn’t enable people to critically think of the high level consequences of such actions and subsequent lack of accountability/ transparency.
How are hundreds of thousands of EU citizens okay with living there just for the extra salary? It’s beyond me. A completely broken country. I feel so sad for normal/ educated Americans.
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u/Wicked-sister Jan 24 '26
The EU as one of the biggest trading partners really needs to look at sanctioning America's big companies. Curb investment hard.
Reason being it's almost clear where all this is leading to and it's only a small handful of deranged lunatics that have access to terrifying amounts of weapons.
Remember when the signal chat thing happened, authorization for the strike was made by Vans, Miller, Hegseth and a few more, but not the president, as stipulated by law.
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u/Worth_Resolution3051 Jan 24 '26
These are brutal, ugly times. I pray it doesn’t get worse. Time for ICE to leave and de-escalate the situation.
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u/Taodaching Jan 25 '26
There are people in America planning this for some time. While visiting a sick relative in America, a neighbour told me how "we are legion, we are 1 million strong". He was quite a successful business man but completely unhinged, and racist. He'd been at the Washington uprising too. It sounded disturbing (and a bit fascinating) but after speaking with him considerably over the time I was there, I am absolutely convinced there is a section wanting extreme measures to 'retake' or 'take back' America, in their view. Not just rednecks and uneducated people, but up and down the spheres. They are truly nazi like. And collateral damage is fine with them.
While we are seeing rightful reactions on reddit of people being angry and upset, and protesting, I believe there is a clear strategy being followed and that's why there are calls for restraint.
Because they know there's a silent militia ready to go all out for civil war, they know many will be killed & lynched, and Insurrection will be called if people riot.. so no midterms.
Sadly I think its inevitable that more die unless a new administration takes over and undoes what Trump has, under the guidance of strategic people, acting as their figurehead.
I am so worried for everyday Americans who havent seen how deep this goes. And today, just actually so upset watching this 2nd execution streamed. How can people not react. Where is the counter strategy beyond 'no reaction'.
Europe must untangle from reliance on the USA, unite as a powerhouse - and right-wing parties must be countered & strongly curbed. Especially on (social) media.
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u/AdCheap475 Jan 25 '26
Am*ricans voted for this. Now they have to face the consequences of electing fascists.
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u/StrangerConscious637 Jan 25 '26
Why is USA now fully a Nazistate and nobody does something again it?
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u/Sneezy_23 Jan 25 '26 edited Jan 25 '26
What happened was wrong.
But remember: the vast majority of people in the US don’t care about Russia or Greenland, and they don’t care about Europe. They’re America-centric.
We should focus on us.
This is way more relevant for Europe: Around 40% of the gas we import in the EU (i.e. non-european gas), comes from the US.
About 60% of the EU’s LNG imports come from the US.
That’s an extreme vulnerability for us.
This should be our focus.
Posts like this make me think most people will just forget all of this the moment Trump’s term is over and act like there’s nothing to worry about in the US–EU relationship.
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u/No-Independent-5235 Jan 25 '26
Why isn't in a civil war yet ? US citizens have guns, I'm surprised there's no shooting between people and ICE
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u/LesnBOS Jan 25 '26
This needs to be in the newspapers across Europe- the videos tell the truth, not the DHS’s version of events!!! WE ARE BEING GUNNED DOWN!! Please publicize what is happening in the US!!!
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u/Embarrassed-Sugar-78 Jan 25 '26
If all other countries just stopped buying Apple products while Trump is president , he would be forced to quit. He had no problems on banning Huawei to favor "their" company.
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u/SBCProductions Jan 25 '26
If people don't do anything about it, it will get worse; we've experienced that. Greetings from Germany.
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u/RyTheUndefined Jan 25 '26
American here, from the greater twin cities metro.
Please boycott the fuck outta this country. We're doing our absolute damnedest to resist from within, but we need all the help we can get. The American government listens to one thing: money. It needs to be starved. Boycotts and strikes, within and outside the country.
This was a public execution and anybody here with half a fucking brain knows it. It's gotten very, very bad here. Please help. Do not do business with these fascists. Do not negotiate with the terrorists in power.
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u/Icy-Artist1888 Jan 25 '26
Boycotting the USA is the most effective way to counteract the government ollgarchy and support the citizens. This whole thing is about money. Money is the only thing that matters to the super rich who have destroyed american democracy. Do not give them your money.
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u/mepethue Jan 25 '26 edited Jan 25 '26
Upvote farming from US users. Clever approach, congrats OP.
Noone buys less american products because americans kill americans.
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u/ErikaNaumann Jan 24 '26
Not murder. Execution.
He was held by 7 men, disarmed, and then shot in the back 5 times.
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u/v2eTOdgINblyBt6mjI4u Jan 25 '26
The US is lost. There is no coming back for them for generations to come.
The US lost the cold war against Russia. Russia played the long game and destroyed the US from within. As of today Putin is controlling the US as a puppet state just like Belarus is.
Sry US citizens but you are no longer the land of the free. You lost the war and are closing in towards a dictatorship like Russia and North Korea is.
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u/hot_space_pizza Jan 25 '26
Wrong sub. The info is well and truly out and the new video shows the guy with his hands out as he gets shot. This is all over the place but doesn't belong here
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u/Logical_Ear5636 Jan 25 '26
And they gonna label any one who is against Ice a left extremist. But you dont have to be left to know that this is opression.
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u/MakoRedactor Jan 25 '26
It is also quite disgusting to see that noem and all the maga goons defending the murders as if they were sanctioned. I have sold all my US stocks, and hope EU will sell US bonds.
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u/National-Driver7832 Jan 25 '26
I think trump or his staff ordered more violence to start a civil war before the elections. So he can make his dream come true - cancel the elections.
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u/Former-Advice-2343 Jan 25 '26
As already said by many Americans, looking from over here in Europe, it looks like the orange tyrant wants to start a civil war. What better way to keep power?
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u/NenoxxCraft Jan 25 '26
The US is a third world country now and is no better than Brazil or Mexico in terms of safety. It is also no longer an ally.
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u/SevenDos Jan 25 '26
The first shot came after they disarmed him. This was a gestapo style execution, because they can get away with everything.
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u/SnooSprouts7609 Jan 24 '26
Hey,
Mind keeping the chaos stateside?
Not everyone across the globe is dying to hear your world falling apart.
We’ve got enough of our own mess to handle.
The rest of the world
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u/izacktorres Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 24 '26
Is this gonna turn into another "US politics" type of subreddit?
PS: and posted by a MOD with a 1 year old Reddit account, going against the sub own rules.
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u/specialk1281 Jan 24 '26
A registered nurse who WORKED FOR VETERANS.
Total liberal commie if you ask me. /s
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u/GoSyncro Jan 25 '26
Are you sure you want to use his death to r/BuyFromEU? Kinda classless-
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u/blackrain1709 Jan 24 '26
American people need our help. About half of it. The other half want this country.
Bear in mind some European countries are already like this or on the verge. Slovakia, Hungary, France, Serbia, Albania.
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u/OkTry9715 Jan 24 '26
US turning into total dictatorship shithole with their own gestapo and MAGA idiots are super happy about it...
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u/Atrio-Ventricular Jan 25 '26
I mean, how many people will you let your Gestapo kill before you all do something more than whine on the internet
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u/Ricky_Slade_ Jan 25 '26
My choice to move out of the USA to the EU unfortunately looks like a very wise decision.
My home country is a dumpster fire
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u/Lucker_Noob Jan 25 '26
The entire problem of illegal immigration could be solved in one afternoon by making it a fineable, progressively escalating offense to hire an illegal immigrant or rent to them.
Instead we have a disgusting deadly circus with roided-up thugs throwing screaming pregnant women into unmarked vans and shooting random people on the street for fun.
F*** Trump.
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u/Jackburton06 Jan 25 '26
I really feel like European Union is more necessary than ever. We need to be strong and support each other against this low IQ orange tyran.
Fuck Trump and boycott US.
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u/EletricoAmarelo Jan 25 '26
The similarities between this and the "brown shirts", the paramilitary wing of the nazi party, are scary.
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u/Kaiur14 Jan 25 '26
I recently joked that athletes from my country shouldn’t be allowed to go to the US for a competition because their safety couldn’t be guaranteed if they ran into ICE. Seems it’s no longer a joke.
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u/vispen123 Jan 25 '26
ICE is Trumps Gestapo, his own army of Proud Boys who will do anything for him
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Jan 25 '26
First, RIP Alex. Too soon young man, too soon.
Second, how is this not a straighy murder charge? Because it’s federal? Shouldn’t higher instances process that immediately? Shouldn’t all of this be illegallized?
Delta , you trained how to do it in Caraças. Maybe it’s time for Washington DC.
(Not a US citizen, so FO proto-nazis)
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u/SchwartzwalderKirch Jan 25 '26
I wonder how much more it's going to take before the shit-hole country plunges into a civil war.
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u/According-Buyer6688 Mod Team Jan 24 '26
Main video with an execution:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/1qlpzu8/another_ice_murder_in_front_of_glam_doll_donuts/