Trump and team heap outrages upon each tragedy
By Sid Schwab / Herald Columnist
Outrage makes coherent writing a challenge. I’ll try.
Hell-bent on defending Immigration and Customs Enforcement when Renee Good was murdered, Donald Trump and MAGA could claim her killer feared for his life because, for an instant, he was stupidly in front of her car. They could pretend that when he shot her to death, standing to the side, he was still endangered, because … I don’t know. Something.
But the latest Minneapolis murder, by Border Patrol agents (why are they there?) led by Nazi cosplayer Greg Bovino, affords no such rationale. The first shot into Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse who cared for critically ill veterans, came from behind, after another attacker had removed his licensed and holstered gun, which, unlike the lies told by Trump, Stephen Miller, J.D. Vance, Kristi Noem, Bovino, and others, he had pointed at no one, nor even touched. As he was executed, Alex Pretti was held down by several so-called officers, subdued, blinded by pepper spray.
We know the videos. Pretti was holding a camera, not a weapon. When a non-violent woman was pushed to the ground by Trump’s thugs, he went to help her, and was taken down by several what-to-call-thems. He threatened no one. The gunmen who pumped 10 to 11 bullets into him, the kind Trump hires, might be professional killers, but they’re the opposite of professional law enforcement. Many are actual criminals (New Republic: tinyurl.com/notgood2u). Others are just horrible humans (X: tinyurl.com/not4nice).
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