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muriel_volestrangler

(105,713 posts)
Sun Jan 25, 2026, 06:45 AM 15 hrs ago

'Pink lady': "I feel afraid ... I don't know what the agents will do when they find me."

Alex Pretti did not brandish gun, witnesses say in sworn testimony

Pair testify that Pretti did not hold weapon and was trying to help woman federal agents had shoved to the ground

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She said: “The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn’t see him touch any of them – he wasn’t even turned toward them. It didn’t look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn’t see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times … I don’t know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him …”

She continued: “I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.

“I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me, and I don’t feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don’t know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they’re not telling the truth about what happened.”

The second witness, a 29-year-old physician, said in their testimony that they saw the shooting from their apartment window near the scene. Before the shooting, the witness said, they could see Pretti yelling at agents, but “did not see him attack the agents or brandish a weapon of any kind”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/24/alex-pretti-killing-witness-testimony

The biggest threat to Americans is far right domestic terrorism, controlled by Trump, Miller, Noem and Bovino.
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'Pink lady': "I feel afraid ... I don't know what the agents will do when they find me." (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler 15 hrs ago OP
"Get it all on record...somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened" muriel_volestrangler 13 hrs ago #1
DURec leftstreet 11 hrs ago #2
this is a national shame bigtree 11 hrs ago #3
She should be afraid Bettie 11 hrs ago #4
Psychopaths. Probably 80-90% of them. nt Ilsa 9 hrs ago #7
When they were recruiting Bettie 8 hrs ago #12
K&R betsuni 9 hrs ago #5
Local police protection? bluestarone 9 hrs ago #6
Yeah, witness protection needed, for those who witness crimes committed by the Trump thugs (nt) muriel_volestrangler 8 hrs ago #8
Post removed Post removed 8 hrs ago #9
Did you take a wrong turn somewhere? GP6971 8 hrs ago #10
Weirdo Girl has left the building. Emile 8 hrs ago #13
Are you saying the guy that was murdered deserved to die? Emile 8 hrs ago #11

muriel_volestrangler

(105,713 posts)
1. "Get it all on record...somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened"
Sun Jan 25, 2026, 08:38 AM
13 hrs ago

"“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945"

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

Andrea Junker (@strandjunker.com) 2026-01-24T21:24:27.681Z

Bettie

(19,374 posts)
4. She should be afraid
Sun Jan 25, 2026, 10:49 AM
11 hrs ago

they're going to want her dead.

But, to be fair, they seem to want all of us dead.

The fact that none of them showed any reaction to killing a man says a lot about who they hired. Not one of those guys seemed even a little bit upset or disturbed by having murdered someone.

No conscience, no humanity in any of them.

Bettie

(19,374 posts)
12. When they were recruiting
Sun Jan 25, 2026, 01:34 PM
8 hrs ago

they weren't looking for the best and brightest. They were looking for people with no regard for human life or humans in general.

They were selecting for militia/proud boy types. Explicitly. There was an article recently about how many of them are not even literate.

muriel_volestrangler

(105,713 posts)
8. Yeah, witness protection needed, for those who witness crimes committed by the Trump thugs (nt)
Sun Jan 25, 2026, 01:14 PM
8 hrs ago

Response to bluestarone (Reply #6)

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