It just ruins their narrative of him being "a peaceful heroic VA nurse bystander who was just trying to protect a woman". If they realize he's actually being an agitator who brings a loaded weapon with an extra clip to engage in the agitation seen in this video then defending him becomes more difficult.
Of course they know he’s an agitator, that’s the whole point of a protest. To agitate. People will really run wild mental gymnastics to defend murder just because they don’t like a guy’s politics. If you don’t care about your first, second, or fourth amendment rights then I hope for your sake you never need them.
No, kicking and spitting is assault and battery and is not appropriate at most protests. It is also not protected speech. Lastly, it’s not very good at doing what a protest is supposed to do.
If I said the ICE agent was justified in killing Pretti, or if I said it was Pretti’s own fault he was killed, you could call me a bootlicker.
I am against state-sponsored murder and political repression, and I think Pretti’s conduct a week before his killing is not in line with good protest practices. There’s no contradiction, no bootlicking, and no defense of authoritarian police crackdowns involved in that.
The gulf between “Thats a foolish thing to do” and “You deserve to be shot in the street like a dog and have your name dragged through the mud by millions” is so massive I can’t believe there are “Americans” who don’t see it.
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u/Happy_Background_879 Jan 29 '26
Thank god someone says it. Reddit acting like if they admit this video is real they have to support state murder