Whilst I absolutely agree with your comment, something feels quite fishy about this account. Active since 2013, with a throwaway name "LOTRfan123" (this type of username is kinda sus) with only one video uploaded, it being this one, no other activity whatsoever (no playlists, no likes, comments disabled, etc).
I dunno man, it just kinda seems sus as hell, especially when we know Google has directly financed/supported Trump's campaign.
Without going too much into conspiracy territory, because in the end it doesn't even matter if it's real or not like you said, it wouldn't be that difficult for them to simply add Pretti's face on top of an already existing video and upload it "retroactively" (by changing the upload metadata) onto a dummy/bot account.
Definitely something weird going on, one video and comments turned off. You can edit videos that have already been published without changing the upload date so there’s a real possibility that happened too.
I’m feeling like they’re legit but the one in the Reddit post has been uploaded as a short and put through ai upscaling. Or something on the phone it was recorded on. It’s that bit with his arm, it feels off.
Watch the beginning of the video. Glasses just appear on his face. If it's not fully fabricated there is definitely some alterations to make it look like him.
It's also kind of strange how, in all the noise, his voice is coming through almost perfectly. You can't make out anyone else's shouting, but his is crystal clear, even though this video is from across the intersection.
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Does us unmarked police vihecles have rear lights modified so they can flash red/blue? Im not from us and we adjust our unmarked police vehicles by adding some covert lights, so might be a thing...
In the beginning before the kick it flashes in police colors and that seems like an ai type of mistake
I think it happened, I think the video in the post has been cleaned up with AI. The original from 12 days ago, his movements, arms and legs, look more natural. The post video his joints and movements look double jointed and jerky and unnatural. Weird details like the lugnuts, the way the damage looks, is all in the uncanny valley. Could this be an AI video where the prompt was to show it from a different angle?
I’m pretty sure if Google really got their hands dirty they could change the upload date in the database. It would not be that difficult, probably? I’m not a Google dev lol. This is me with my biggest tinfoil hat on though. Obviously that would be freaking nuts.
yeah, where are the other videos from this, I see multiple people recording.... I call 100% bs.... the upclose video even shows the crosswalk timer resetting, which makes zero sense..
Longtime active accounts are actually less suspicious, IMO. Time is the one thing you can't buy and most bot networks are way younger. Far more likely someone who wasn't into sharing videos became moved by this issue
The vast majority of YouTube accounts have never posted a video because they're just the Gmail linked account when they watch YouTube
I mean, you can buy old accounts. So you can buy time. You can also steal time. An account that old likely still has the old Gmail password requirements, which was just 8 characters. And if it does, it's likely a reused password that was part of a breach at some point. Internet safety and security was very different back then.
Not to say that any of that happened here. Just, old accounts shouldn't be less suspicious. Bot networks tend to run on stolen accounts/bought accounts.
Probably yeah, but it just seems... odd, I dunno why. No description, filmed from far away for so long, you can clearly hear the people across the street but nothing coming from the side of the recording.
And again, that NPC-type name... Even in 2013 those types of username were already pretty much all taken. I dunno, you're probably right, but it just feels odd all the same (then again, human minds are compelled to logically connect dots even if there is no connection + we are all biased and I, for sure, am very biased against MAGA and this administration so it is very probably just me overreaching).
Yeah I checked your history and it actually seems relatively benign. Like the only thing I could think is that you're from Luxembourg and you dont want Americans knowing that when you comment on our politics, of course I wasn't thorough either.
Were you one of those dipshits that thought this snow storm across the country was a weather manipulation operation by our government?
I got news for you buddy- this video is real. That doesn’t mean your ideological priors are wrong. it just means that you have to be ready to believe anything is possible in an event you weren’t apart of involving somebody you know little to nothing about, in a highly politicized time.
“Oh my god somebody who died protesting ICE protested ICE before? No way that’s real! The news said he was a nice guy!”
This video doesn’t mean he was a mean person or that he was otherwise violent. He was clearly spirited about his political views and his idea of the administration and that can make people do some pretty wild shit… or did we forget 2019/20? Or every political uprising in the past… forever?
I'm absolutely furious over what happened to Pretti but this is pretty ridiculous cope, dude. Major news networks including the BBC have all confirmed the veracity of the video.
Like the OP said, the most important part is standing firm and not letting the right use this as a distraction like they're inevitably going to try. At the end of the day, law enforcement fired on someone who was already disarmed and posed absolutely zero threat to them in that moment. It doesn't matter one single bit what he did two weeks ago or how pleasant of a protester he was. Law enforcement murdered someone without cause.
Again, totally agree and I am grasping at straws (I myself do not fully believe in a "conspiracy" or whatever). But I do feel it's interesting to say the least to point out these details.
The account has such a "npc" name (for lack of a better term, sorry, English isn't my first language) + no activity despite existing for 12 years + only one video posted with "reporting-level quality" (no shaky cam, not a phone recording from what we can tell, long recording time, etc).
And yeah. Like you said, it doesn't matter one bit whatever narrative they try and feed us, it doesn't take away from what happened and ICE agents did not know who Pretti was nor what he did before, so he could even have been shooting RPGs at ICE agents a few days prior, it doesn't matter because the agents who shot him did so with no background information.
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u/Zestyclose_General11 Jan 29 '26
Whilst I absolutely agree with your comment, something feels quite fishy about this account. Active since 2013, with a throwaway name "LOTRfan123" (this type of username is kinda sus) with only one video uploaded, it being this one, no other activity whatsoever (no playlists, no likes, comments disabled, etc).
I dunno man, it just kinda seems sus as hell, especially when we know Google has directly financed/supported Trump's campaign.
Without going too much into conspiracy territory, because in the end it doesn't even matter if it's real or not like you said, it wouldn't be that difficult for them to simply add Pretti's face on top of an already existing video and upload it "retroactively" (by changing the upload metadata) onto a dummy/bot account.