A powerful tool of resistance is already in your hands

"In an eyewitness video analyzed frame by frame by The New York Times, Alex Pretti raises one hand and holds a phone in the other. Federal agents tackle him, and one appears to find and remove a gun holstered on his hip. Then, an agent shoots - and a second follows. They appear to fire nine more shots as Pretti lies on the ground."

"The phone Pretti held - like the ones that onlookers used to record his killing and share it with the world - had a kind of power that the Trump administration has repeatedly recognized as both a threat and an instrument, depending on who's using it. The visual of Pretti clutching his phone moments before his death is emblematic of millions across the country clutching to digital evidence and online forums to make sense of the events taking place across the country."

An eyewitness video shows Alex Pretti raising one hand and holding a phone while federal agents tackle him; one agent appears to find and remove a gun holstered on Pretti’s hip, and then agents fire several shots as Pretti lies on the ground. The Trump administration claimed agents acted in self-defense and pointed to Pretti’s legally carried gun; agents were later identified as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and CBP officer Raymundo Gutierrez. The phone Pretti held, and the phones onlookers used to record and share the killing, carried power that the administration has treated both as a threat and as an instrument. For opponents of federal immigration enforcement, phones and social media have become vital tools to alert, organize, and document encounters.

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