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Will Minneapolis be our Selma?
Last night, we saw federal agents in Minneapolis execute a young man for exercising his first amendment rights.
“Video footage shows that Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an intensive care nurse at a Veterans Affairs hospital, stepped between a woman and an agent pepper spraying her, and then was sprayed himself. He appeared to hold a phone in one hand and nothing in the other.
As agents restrained him, one appeared to take his pistol, videos show, and then agents opened fire, killing him.
Chief Brian O’Hara of the Minneapolis police said that Mr. Pretti was an American citizen with no known criminal record, and had a firearms permit allowing him to carry a gun openly."
Also read the sworn affidavit of a witness to the killing, below.
These are agents of the same federal agency that killed Renee Good, took a 5 year old from his family, pepper sprayed a protester inches from their face, engaged in mass deportations without due process of law--while aggressively and unlawfully attempting to silence dissent, leading to at least two murders now of non-violent citizens exercising their constitutional rights.
With all of this bring covered up and instigated by the highest people in the administration: Bondi, Miller and Trump.
I applaud the courage of those who are risking their lives and safety to defend our rights against a government that seeks to deny them.
And I’m reminded of what happened on a bridge in Selma over 60 years ago, which awakened many Americans to reject police brutality against fellow citizens for standing up for their rights.
Will Minneapolis be our Selma? Will it awaken Americans to reject today’s police brutality against fellow Americans for standing up for their rights? For our rights?