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[[link removed]]Hello,

I’ve wanted to speak about this directly since Saturday, but I’ll be entirely honest: I've not been sure what to say because I have so much on my mind about it.

On Saturday, all of us witnessed, from multiple angles, federal agents murder and gun down Alex Pretti in the streets of Minneapolis.

In the days since, we have had to listen to the ghouls of this administration tell us that what we saw with our own eyes is not what we saw. Telling us not to believe our own lying eyes.

We watched the videos, and what we see is federal agents celebrating the fact that they killed Alex Pretti moments after they did.

It makes me emotional. It makes me incredibly angry. This was an ICU nurse at the VA who dedicated his life to helping veterans and helping his community. And then he was killed protecting his neighbors. Murdered. Shot down by the state. Executed in the street.

It makes me shake with rage. As I joined my fellow Mainers to protest in the streets this weekend, I wasn’t shaking because it was cold. I was shaking because I'm angry. All of our bodies should be shaking.

This is an agency that cannot be reformed. Watching agents celebrate executing an American citizen in the street on camera shows just how little accountability they know they're going to be held to. And the federal agencies that killed Alex Pretti are the same ones now denying Minnesotan investigators access to evidence and the ability to investigate what occurred.

We all watched what occurred. You can see it in slow motion. They disarmed him. He never goes for his firearm. And after they have taken his legal firearm from him, they dump a magazine into his body.

Republicans have taken this opportunity to say that because Mr. Pretti was legally carrying a firearm – a constitutional right given to him by the United States Constitution as a Minnesotan and as an American – that he deserved to die. That that was reason enough for him to be executed.

I have been a gun owner my entire life. I served four tours in Iraq and Afghanistan as a machine gunner. I still shoot competitively. I even carry on occasion because it is my right as an American and my right as a Mainer. So to watch people in a political party that – for years – has screamed about protecting the Second Amendment… For those same people to turn around and say that because Alex Pretti had a holstered legal firearm, that he deserved to be murdered by federal agents… It is the height of hypocrisy and the height of unconstitutional behavior.

We are living in a different political situation than the one many of us have ever lived in. Too many elected officials – Republican and Democrat – fail to comprehend the moment we are actually in right now. But not me. Not you. Not us.

We have entered a new time in American history, and it is a time where it's going to take all of us to stand up together and fight back against fascist authoritarianism from the federal government.

I hope I will see all of you out in the streets as we resist. Because resist we must.

In solidarity,

Graham Platner

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