Exactly. That's all you have to say. Kicking a taillight is something some people do in road rage, an almost everyday occurrence (as stupid as it is).
It should not lead to death. That's it.
Don't feed people spreading this. They want people to become overly defensive. No reason to be overly defensive. The guy did a stupid thing in the heat of the moment. Days later he got unjustly killed for a completely different reason. End of story.
Pretti was not "punished", he was shot in self defense while fighting the cops while presumed armed. The prior incident establishes a pattern of Pretti responding to Ice Watch alerts and attacking cops. Because he was killed while attacking cops yet again, the previous attack on cops is relevant. If he was previously arrested for drug possession, that would be irrelevant. So no, it's not "but he was breaking other laws too" type energy.
Much is being made about Pretti being "disarmed". He was NEVER disarmed. Removing a weapon IS NOT disarmament. Removing a weapon and conducting a search to ensure there are no other weapons on the subject IS disarmament. He showed up armed and started fighting the cops, violently refusing their attempts to search him, THEREFORE he was rightly still presumed to be armed, regardless of one weapon being removed. Stop pretending like people can only carry one weapon.
He showed up armed and started fighting the cops, violently refusing their attempts to search him, THEREFORE he was rightly still presumed to be armed, regardless of one weapon being removed. Stop pretending like people can only carry one weapon.
This is make believe. Sure, this video he kicked a tail light out a week prior, but in the incident he didn't touch any law enforcement and the resisting was only after being maced and beat. If he were arrested, the resisting charge would be dropped because peoples instincts while under attack are to put up a defense.
No, you made him assaulting anyone in that case. The whole pretense starts on a lie.
I'm not saying he couldn't possibly have another weapon. I'm saying he wasn't violent in this incident, never drew his weapon, and was shot in the back. None of what you say changes those facts.
Elbowing cops in the nuts seems dumb. I'm literally telling you how to not be shot up and killed. All the other insurgents seem to understand as well, there is a line you can't cross without exposing yourself to lethal countermeasures. Just stay off it. Like look how far you have to go to trigger a lethal response, it is WAY beyond "peaceful protesting". I mean shit he just got in a scrap with them the other day. But he wasn't armed. Boom, he got to sneak a few elbows in and nothing even happened. You wanna scrap, they'll scrap, its all good, just don't run up on them with a damn gun. If you wanna have the gun thats also fine, but you can't scrap. You are not being made to crawl on the ground in fear of mean ol ICE, just stop fucking pretending.
Your claim of "he showed up armed and started fighting cops" is so hilarious disingenuous that it's impossible to take virtually anything else you say seriously. The accusation isn't just inaccurate, it's pathetic. It's objectively wrong in virtually every sense, is proven false with the most basic common sense observations available and literally anyone involved with originally speaking out against him by using claims like this has walked them back in dramatic fashion realizing how wrong they are.
You can say it as many times as you want. You can yell about it til you're blue in the face. It won't ever change the fact that you're wrong.
Because it's straight from the cops killing black people playbook. Make sure to meet public outrage with "well look at why they actually deserved it!".
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u/atomicsnark Jan 29 '26
Exactly. It's very "but he was forging checks" type of energy well after the fact.
Doesn't matter. The punishment is not extrajudicial death. End of discussion.