On Saturday, an ICE officer executed Alex Pretti in the street in Minneapolis.
Alexandria appeared on CNN shortly after, and here’s what she had to say regarding the incident:
Immediately preceding the incident, an ICE officer had violently pushed a woman to the ground and he had come over to help get her up. That is what precipitated this incident that very quickly led to an execution, a deadly shooting, in the street.
What we are seeing here is a pivotal moment for the United States and I cannot underscore enough how precipitous this moment is.
Between ICE and CBP, we will see which agencies were responsible.
But at the end of the day, under the so-called excuse of border security — where Minneapolis is over 300 miles from the United States border — we have an unleashing of federal agents, exerting a tremendous amount of violence and loss of life against the American people, who are well within their First Amendment rights, and in this case, it seems as though well within their Second Amendment rights.
In the video currently circulating online, you do not see immediate evidence of anyone reaching for a firearm.
It has been reported that Alex Pretti had a legal permit. This administration's response has been that the fact that he was a legal firearm owner was a reason for them to shoot him in the street. If you see directly from DHS's own accounts, they themselves do not claim anything in their accounts or their evidence about any precipitating action — just the fact that he was armed.
This is a pivotal moment and if we do not do something now to contain this abuse of power and violence, I do not know what can happen afterwards because the Trump administration has already indicated earlier this week about discussions to use the Insurrection Act against Americans based on their political affiliation.
We have to contain this chaos.
This administration is declaring an openness and a justification for violence against American citizens based on their organizing, based on their political affiliation — and they are using the guise of the Department of Homeland Security to do it.
We have to draw a line in the sand now across sectors — politically, economically, in our media and more.
Do not let this administration intimidate you out of using your First Amendment right to organize and mobilize against what we know is wrong.
We must remember: we outnumber them. We can't allow them to divide us. We must stay united to fight for a better future for all of us.
Thank you for reading,
Team AOC
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