Guest Column: On Pretti and protesters in Minneapolis
ICE has been out of control over the past few months, and particularly since the beginning of this year.
Over the three decades I’ve been practicing immigration law, I’ve never seen the level of chaos and division, fomented by the rhetoric of Donald Trump’s DHS and front woman Kristi Noem and the Dark Prince of D.C., Stephen Miller.
The lies about “domestic terrorists” like Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse. It should repel everyone who saw the videos of his murder.
They shot him while he was facedown, immobile, likely taking his last breaths.
If you are capable of justifying that, you should skip over the rest of my column because I write in a language you don’t understand.
Yes, he had a gun, with a license to carry.
Foolish of him to bring it to a volatile situation, one where other people also had guns and the legal authority to use them.
And there is another video of him engaging with ICE agents in a violent manner, attacking their vehicles and screaming expletives.
That bit of phone camera verite shows us that he was not a martyr. He was not an angel.
He was far from perfect, and clearly a man with anger issues. The people who leaked that video have the same sort of agenda as the activists who film ICE, hoping to catch them in these moments of........
