The footage of the fatal shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, said one journalist, “shows that the final act of his life was trying to help a woman who was being physically assaulted by the masked agents who would then kill him.”

In the original video of the shooting of a man in Minneapolis, identified by the Minneapolis Star Tribune at 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a woman in a pink coat was seen in the background filming the incident with her phone. 

Drop Site News obtained footage that appeared "to come from the direction of the woman in pink filming from the sidewalk" and showed the shooting at a closer distance than the footage taken from inside Glam Doll Donuts. 

In the video, the shooting victim, dressed in a brown coat and pants, is seen filming a federal agent with his phone. He's then seen guiding another person toward the sidewalk as the agent forcefully shoves a third person to the ground.

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[–] 320 points 9 months ago* (10 children)

Alex Pretti was murdered.

Say it with me. This was no “shooting.”

And it’s going to keep happening again and again.

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  • [–] 194 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Alex Pretti was murdered by ICE

    Renee Macklin Good was murdered by ICE

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  • [–] 48 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Murderers should get murdered.

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  • [–] 47 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Alex Pretti was murdered by ICE

    Renee Macklin Good was murdered by ICE

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  • [–] 135 points 9 months ago (15 children)

    The very minute I read some synopsis on a news alert on my phone and saw that it was claimed that "he had a gun" I disbelieved that.

    Even if he had a gun and he's on the ground and tried to get up? That justifies shooting "roughly 10" times?

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  • [–] 239 points 9 months ago* (14 children)

    He did have a gun.

    He was being a responsible citizen, exercising his 2nd Amendment rights with a holstered weapon, in compliance with Minnesota law.

    Gestapo thugs tackled and beat him, unholstered and removed the firearm from his side, and only then did they unload 9 bullets into him as he laid unarmed and beaten on the street.

    But as you'll see, and as anyone who's ever paid attention to the 2A fascist assholes will know, they suddenly become hyper anti-gun the moment its someone they don't like exercising their rights.

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  • [–] 60 points 9 months ago (13 children)

    That sure sounds like something the NRA should have an opinion about

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  • [–] 82 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    The NRA exists solely for the profit of firearms manufacturers.

    This won't hinder their sales,so the NRA won't care.

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    I hope innocent people start arming themselves. It's fucking time for the 2A to kick in

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I live in MPLS and I just passed my qualification for a permit to carry yesterday. Never thought I'd be the type of person to learn about and practice firearms but now that the future is so uncertain and tumultuous I figure it's better to be educated and practiced just-in-case.

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago

    The NRA started the anti-gun movement in California alongside Reagan. In response to the Black Panthers carrying while copwatching as they did similar shit to the Black neighborhoods in the 1960s.

    The NRA will back it no problem. They have before.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Idk about the NRA, but this is the GOAs response.

    While I disagree with their statement about immigration, I gotta at least give them credit for not being totally two-faced.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    That statement some real "both sides" energy bullshit. The only ones obliged to behave like professionals here are the ones representing the US government on official duty. The rest are obliged to do exactly what they are doing. Keep watching, keep filming, keep supporting each other, and keep showing the world all of it.

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  • [–] 122 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Kristi Noem lying on TV this very moment about Alex Pretti and painting him as terrorist. And then claims the investigation will be performed. It seems to me they performed investigation 5 seconds after they put like 15 rounds into Alex. This shit needs Nuremberg type trials for entire current USA administration starting with Trump, all his hyenas and all the agents that murdered Alex and Renee. USA is a lawless wild west. They aren't enforcing laws, they are playing Judge Dredd and interpret the laws pretty much randomly the way they feel, usually ending with innocent people dying. And then they continue lying about it. This is fucked.

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  • [–] 24 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Not to be overly Comic-book-guy but:

    Judge Dredd is never portrayed killing someone for his own gratification in 2000AD. He isn't racist, or to my knowledge, even a classist.

    Yes, he is a 'judge' in an ultra violent society that devolves execution, due process and investigation to the officer on the beat.

    But no one is above the law as far as he concerned not even the judiciary. There probably isn't a president of the US that he wouldn't have arrested for their crimes, and quite a few he'd execute for their crimes against humanity. Trump wouldn't have made it to this millennium.

    These ICE thugs are just cowardly fascist scum. Law is just a weapon of suppression to them. For Judge Dredd the law was sacred and the only thing preventing humanity from eating itself in his post apocalyptic future hellscape.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Him and The Punisher (who law enforcement tend to idolize) are people we shouldn't wish for, but maybe people like them are sometimes required. When the justice system fails, who holds people accountable? If no one, then there's nothing stopping evil people from doing whatever they want.

    We don't want state officials working for vigilante justice, but occasionally in history someone does need to.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago*

    Which goes to show that one of the mightiest weapons against the oligarchs turning the people against each other is the teaching of critical thinking in schools.

    That's why this cultural virus attacks teachers and coups education boards. The pay off is these automatons believing that there is a direct mirror between the egoless Dredd having the ultimate power to end a criminal's life within the boundaries of a harsh but ultimately unprejudiced set of laws and their own prejudicial bloodthirsty fascism that constantly corrupts the law to suit their ingroup and individual needs.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Maybe I didn't made it clear, they think they are like Judge Dredd. You know, like Trump thinks he's all that shit he used generative Ai to portray himself as Superman or like fighter jet pilot and all that shit. They think they are the cool good guys, they are anything but that.

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  • [–] 67 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Something I was just made aware of: after shooting and killing Alex Pretti, ICE officers then stood back and shot him 5 more times.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    These mag-dumping morons(read, most cops and adjacent in the US) really seem to care less about the reduction of danger and more about the obliteration of opposition. Yes he was already dead, but they had make sure. Same with Good when they refused treatment, shooting her was out of cowardice but letting her die when she could have been saved was plain ol’ cruelty and punishment for the crime of making them feel small.

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  • [–] 59 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Doesn't matter to the MAGAts, they will just disobey the evidence of their eyes, as the party tells them.

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  • [–] 25 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    "I don't read propaganda" was one of the last things my mother said to me before we broke off communication for good. I don't associate with nazis or their supporters. And of course the irony is lost on her, that propaganda is the ONLY thing she consumes.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    My dad refuses to see or hear any evidence that may break his mental gymnasts back. He actually behaves like a toddler, by screaming and flailing to avoid some bitter medicine. I mean literally squeezing his eyes closed, yelling and flailing his arms when I try to show him what he has done

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  • [–] 47 points 9 months ago* (5 children)

    This is just straight up murder. He shot man in the back a dozen times with no threat to his safety at all, this is AFTER they gang beat him to the ground for no reason. This is unacceptable.

    Best video I've seen:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1qm2vi0/heres_your_proof_with_the_moment_of_truth_isolated/

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  • [–] 35 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

    Trump's Taliban doing summary street executions now.

    Thugs checklist:

    1. Pepper spray
    2. Push down on ground
    3. Feral pack pile on
    4. Run off with the gun they stole
    5. Empty clips into prone body
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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    5 happened before 4

    Its a minor detail, but really highlights the heinous nature of what happened here. They disarmed him before executing him.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Honestly, i think its a pretty major detail. They disarmed him and then shot him 10 times. Its what changes this from murder to execution. The man was not a threat the whole time but after they took his only means of being a threat they then killed him and are claiming he was a threat. They neutered their own defence. If he still had the gun when they shot him they would have an easier time lying about what happened.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    The 8 year Border Patrol veteran who shot him seemed to see the gun and unholstered his own, then the moment Alex's gun was taken away he started shooting. It's like he saw the justification and realized he could execute him and waited to be safe, at no point is the main murderer in any danger or engaged directly with Alex, he was watching from above until he started shooting.

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  • [–] 89 points 9 months ago (37 children)

    ICE murdered that man.

    From here we have two paths:

    One: Civility is eventually restored to government and these people are tried and convicted for their crimes.

    Two: All out civil war.

    We will not let ICE, Trump or any of these Nazis complete their agenda.

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  • [–] 29 points 9 months ago

    One: Civility is eventually restored to government and these people are tried and convicted for their crimes.

    Respectfully, that's an outcome, not a path to get there.

    The MAGA shitheads won't just give up and let themselves be prosecuted. They won't stop appointing judges, they won't stop cheating on elections, they won't stop manipulating media, and they won't stop harassing, intimidating, and killing their opposition until someone makes them.

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  • [–] 51 points 9 months ago (29 children)

    There's a third option: people don't resist and the regime does whatever it wants.

    So far we've chosen that option.

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I want to believe that the killing of Good and Pretti will be a turning point…but I’m a middle aged American who has developed some cynicism about my fellow countrymen…

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  • [+] -10 points 9 months ago (25 children)

    There's a third option: people don't resist and the regime does whatever it wants. we fight them in the court

    Glad I could fix that for you.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago* (22 children)

    How's that going so far? You have a 34 time convicted felon for a president sending his fascist goon squads out to murder people in the streets and none of your precious fucking lawyers have done jack shit about it.

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  • [+] -15 points 9 months ago (21 children)

    Oh, well next time you're wrong by someone and dont immediately get justice; you're absolutely justified jumping to violence... /s

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (16 children)

    Violence is always justified against fascists; it is self defense.

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  • [+] -14 points 9 months ago (14 children)

    I may agree with you if over the past 5 years the term "fascist" hadn't been deluted more than a dive bar's $0.50 draft beer.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (11 children)

    These are armed, masked government goons slaughtering civilians in the streets in a widespread terror campaign orchestrated by your criminal warlord president wherein various people labeled "undesirables" by your fascist government are disappeared to concentration camps and "deported" to prisons in other countries they have no connection to.

    If Hell existed, you would meet all your German pals in the deepest, darkest, coldest layer.

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  • [+] -11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (10 children)

    These are armed, masked government goons slaughtering civilians in the streets in a widespread terror campaign orchestrated by your criminal warlord president wherein various people labeled "undesirables" by your fascist government are disappeared to concentration camps and "deported" to prisons in other countries they have no connection to.

    10/10 exaggeration of the circumstances; and the situations you're describing are being exasperated by the population illegal obstructing legal law enforcement operations. You're making it sound like Vlad the Impaler raised Hitler and his Nazi army from the dead and they're roaming the streets eating liberal babies.

    Again, your time to fight the government is in the courts. If you want change, fight them in the courts. If you want violence and conflict then keep up the obstruction.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    10/10 exaggeration of the circumstances;

    There is no exaggeration, it is a sober recount of the facts of the situation we're currently in. This is how history will record this period, and you will be one of the many nameless fascists condemned by future generations.

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  • [+] -10 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    , it is a sober recount of the facts of the situation we're currently in.

    It's not sober at all, it's an incredibly recent, heated, emotional take as per usual on these hyper political issues.

    The emotional charge is more responsibility for these terrible occurances than policy or enforcement.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    incredibly recent,

    I've been telling you that Trump is a fascist who wants to do this shit since 2015. Nothing recent about it, you're just a fascist.

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  • [+] -6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    you're just a fascist.

    That word doesn't mean anything anymore, you've run it into the ground.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    You fucking wish. This smarmy bullshit isn't going to save you when our turn comes.

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  • [–] -4 points 9 months ago

    You fucking wish. This smarmy bullshit isn't going to save you when our turn comes.

    Oof, ain't that the sad state of affairs of American politics in a nutshell.

    I hope you don't expect that cycle to end when your turn ends.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    If you think that murdering people in the street is just a "political issue" then wow....enjoy hell

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago

    wow....enjoy hell

    I don't need to worry, there is no hell, or Santa Claus, or Easter Bunny. If you swallow a watermelon seed it won't grow in your stomach.

    I mean if you dress up in a KKK costume and walk through the Bronx, something very bad is probably going to happen to you. Some may even call it murder, but that doesn't mean you were innocent as a choir boy.

    And it absolutely is a political issues, we have people at the local, state, and federal level all escalating due to the idea that backing down is precieved as weakness. If any of those levels de-escalated none of this would have happened. No one deserved to get killed here, but no one is totally innocent.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

    It's different when they are actively murdering us. This is an urgent crisis, imagine a violent gang was roaming and blatantly murdering people and abducting children in a city and the government called them heroes? And a decent amount of the local police are friends with that gang. Courts and trials are important also but we need to use whatever means we have to prevent or slow the killing if we have the ability to.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    No one is actively murdering you when you're the one creating the aggressive situations. Stop obstructing law enforcement officers, it's dangerous and illegal. Fight them in court.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Immigrants are dying and being abused in camps, and being shot and beaten when apprehened, which is why people are filming them, Ranee Good and Alex Pretti weren't obstructing or creating an aggressive situation, and anyone who suggests they were can go fuck themselves to hell.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago

    Ranee Good and Alex Pretti

    Were creating a hostile situation where ICE agents are forced to play defensive crowd control rather than doing their job. It's a terrible situation, especially Petti who apparently did nothing but be in the wrong place at the wrong time, but they contributed to their own harm.

    If you take your convertible into a bad neighborhood and leave the keys on the dashboard; don't ask me to feel bad when it gets stolen.

    fuck themselves to hell.

    Why would I when the left is already doing a fine job.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Military coup. The only way a civil war is successful is if the military are on the side of the people. The most important of which would be the USN and USAF Strategic Forces. A prolonged ground war is only won by sea, air, and nuclear forces. More specifically nuclear forces in the hands of said military who will NOT use them on our own land.

    It will present a serious challenge with all the Pentagon purges. But the majority of Flag and Line officers are from West Point, Annapolis, and Maxwell. It's unlikely most side with Trump (for now). The real trick will hinge on the NCOs, as the US Military is predominantly a middle-out force, and senior NCOs hold the bulk of our service members' respect. What they decide to do in the majority will dictate the outcome of a civil war. One NG commander already stated publicly he will order his soldiers to protect protesters from ICE agents. There is a small chance.

    Ideally the next time President Trump boards Marine 1 he's taken into custody at a military base with a large Delta, Rangers, or NG presence to subdue USSS agents. With a Federal Judge, Vance, Speaker Johnson, and Grassley in tow. Invoke 25 or Martial Law, and go down the line of succession until someone takes the oath. This is highly unlikely though. A full impeachment is more likely, but a lot of people will need to for die before it will happen.

    It's either that or The Man in The High Castle. The American Fourth Reich.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    That's uhhh, not how that works. You can't hold ground with bombs and missiles. And the Army is absolutely capable of holding ground against bombs and missiles. Nukes are, obviously, another story.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Naw you're right, but I only meant that the most critical parts of our military we would need on our side are USN/USAF. While you are correct the US Army would be the most ideal force to hold land, this task could also be completed by NG or insurgency BLUFOR. But yeah obviously the Army would be more successful and have more ass like AH-64s, MBTs, and IFVs and professional soldiers trained in occupation.

    But you cannot secure additional land and project force without sea and air superiority. I'd also add USAF's Cyber Command authority as well (I'm not sure if USSF has fully adopted this role yet). I'm also not sure which branch is doing the most work in drone tech, but I'd imagine it would have to be either USAF or USN as we've seen in Ukraine, this will also be a major factor in modern, mechanized warfare.

    And yeah you're also correct, ultimately none of this matters if our Strategic Forces are in the wrong hands. Nuclear remains the "nuclear" option.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Civility is eventually restored to government and these people are tried and convicted for their crimes.

    For that you need some power. Effectively in other countries like Ukraine, the economic nobility (i.e billionaires) comes to the rescue. The problem is that it seems that the economic nobility has built a golem they no longer control but are doubling down on controlling it.

    Two: All out civil war.

    In this case you also need some power backing it. Unless you are Cuba or some shithole like the Russian Empire in 1917.


    My marvel influenced child, the only way the society pushes back with these cards is internal sabotage.

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  • [–] 41 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Everyone should have a gun when dealing with ice

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  • [–] 35 points 9 months ago

    Looks like they are the ones starting a fight.... and escalated... and murdered. Sigh. A complete set-up to fail. Stay strong over there.

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  • [–] 35 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Do not believe anything posted by doj or their affiliates

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Sucks that TousiTV keeps getting his sources from them when he covers USA. We are trying to help Iranian/Persian people and ourselves which is tough

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I'd never heard about him until I recently found out my Trump supporting dad had been watching him. How is he? Should I be concerned? I know he's said stuff praising Israel, so I suspect he isn't leftist by any means, or anti-authoritarian either. I don't know why he cares about Iran except to weaken an enemy of Israel maybe?

    Hopefully I'm wrong about this and it is actually about oppression. I just don't see how someone can square that with supporting what Israel is doing. I'm just worried he's just an even worse far-right media person.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago*

    Have no clue how he has been in long-term back then found him recently too. In some videos he doesn't really speak well of us. He covers Iran well but definitely very on the farther right side compared to Atheist Republic and Gold Ghamari. His titles in the Live section of his videos about USA alone are bashing left as if they are far left and not accurately verifying things based on titles

    The comments by Right leaning people is very telling of what they think of and want to do to Left people here in States. But gotta wonder how many are bots, actual USA citizens, foreigners in general inciting violence, or foreigners pretending to be citizens

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  • [–] 34 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    They shot him many times so he couldn't testify later against them. 1 shot, then a bunch for the kill.

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