Before the videos showing Border Patrol agents disarming ICU nurse Alex Pretti then shooting him to death. Before the video showing Border Patrol “commander at large” Greg Bovino throwing tear gas at protesters. Before the video showing a 5-year-old child, Liam Conejo Ramos, being detained by agents when he came home from daycare.

Before all of those horrors, the besieged city of Minneapolis was already awash with videos. There were plenty to watch. Worst of all, of course, was the video of ICE officer Jonathan Ross shooting Renee Good through first her windshield, then her side window, killing the mom of three.

But one man who should have been watching the tidal wave of videos, and acting on them. apparently wasn’t.

These are the stories which—if he had but paid attention—could have stopped a political crisis for President Donald Trump. Far more importantly, he could have stopped the death of another American at the hands of his own agents.

A Jan. 8 video shows federal immigration agents piling onto two 17-year-old employees in the vestibule of a Target store in suburban Minneapolis. Both are wearing bright orange vests that signal they are employees. Both are slammed face down and forcibly handcuffed as if they were resisting rather than simply stunned and scared.

The agents do not react when an onlooker with a cellphone calls out, “You’re on video.” One of the two teens, Jonathan Aguilar Garcia, calls out a phone number when onlookers ask if there is somebody who should be contacted.

“That’s my mom!” he yells.

He tells the federal agents that he has his passport on him and asks to show it. They ignore him. He is being hustled to an unmarked vehicle when he calls out, “I’m literally a U.S. citizen.”

The other teen, Christian Miranda Romano, is also loaded into the vehicle. Nearby stands Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, giving no indication that his minions are doing anything but exactly what he wants them to do.

“Stop kneeing him in the face!” an onlooker cries in a Jan. 9 clip showing a man being held down in a Minneapolis street by five immigration officers, “Stop it!”

The officer continues doing it again and again as the others keep him........

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