"Wearing helmets, gas masks and camouflage fatigues, the federal agents took aim and prepared to open fire. It's like Call of Duty, one could be heard saying via a TV mic, referring to a first-person shooter military video game. So cool, huh? This was the scene on the streets of Minneapolis on Saturday after armed agents, wearing masks and tactical vests, wrestled 37-year-old Alex Pretti to the ground and shot him dead."
"The US president has surely delivered it by deploying Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to the streets of a major city in order to create a spectacle of terror reminiscent of a civil war or a video game. In the first year of his second presidency, Trump's ICE deployments have been carefully aimed at cities that are Democratic-led and often Black-led, as if imposing collective punishment for their defiance."
Federal agents in Minneapolis, wearing helmets, gas masks and camouflage, confronted armed individuals and fatally shot 37-year-old Alex Pretti near sites of prior deadly police encounters. The killing occurred within a mile of where Renee Good and George Floyd were previously killed, intensifying local anger and prompting the mayor to demand an end to the operation. Crowds confronted and insulted federal officers after the incident. The deployments by Immigration and Customs Enforcement are concentrated in Democratic and often Black-led cities, prompting accusations of political targeting and comparisons to authoritarian tactics and reprisals.
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