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‘This is what fascism looks like’: terror in Minneapolis reminiscent of civil war
The Guardian ^ | David Smiith

Posted on 01/25/2026 3:51:20 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Alex Pretti’s death could be a moment of reckoning for Democrats to call time on Trump waging war on his people

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 killing took place just over a mile from where Renee Good was fatally shot on 7 January, a scene that itself was less than a mile from where police murdered George Floyd in May 2020.

“How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end?” the Minneapolis mayor, Jacob Frey, demanded at a press conference on Saturday, referring to the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration crackdown in Minneapolis. An angry crowd gathered and swore profanities at federal officers, calling them “cowards” and telling them to go home.

Donald Trump spoke of “American carnage” in his first inaugural address nine years ago. 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. In this, he is borrowing from an authoritarian playbook reminiscent of Saddam Hussein of Iraq targeting the Kurds or Soviet leader Joseph Stalin causing the...

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They have the narrative machine is cranked up to full power.
1 posted on 01/25/2026 3:51:20 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

bwahahaha.

No, this is what FAFO looks like.


2 posted on 01/25/2026 3:53:16 PM PST by yldstrk
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Left wing Guardian. Not surprising.


3 posted on 01/25/2026 3:53:22 PM PST by ConjunctionJunction (Vim vi repellere licet)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The terrorists in Minneapolis are reminiscent of Hitler’s brownshirts in 1939 Berlin.


4 posted on 01/25/2026 3:53:51 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Voters will fall for big time and then find out the democrats have filled the US with very Dangerous criminals


5 posted on 01/25/2026 3:58:45 PM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: ConjunctionJunction
Left wing Guardian. Not surprising.

Pure apologists for the violent left. The wankers can’t even mention the basic violations of law under all of this. Screw the Guardian.

6 posted on 01/25/2026 4:00:11 PM PST by paulcissa (The left hates you and wants you dead.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

OK, RED Guardian of Manchester— now tell us HOW MUCH MORE what the anti US Law Left is “What Communism Looks Like”!!

Can you do that, RED Guardian. What a joke of a Leftist rag.

Convenient to try to describe enforcement of US immigration law which has been on the books over 40 years... as “fascism” because it couldn’t just be citizen’s representative-created and passed... Law! And every other country in the world has exactly the same restrictions and no open borders. Neither did the former or current Communist states.

So, shut the hell up Red Guardian!


7 posted on 01/25/2026 4:00:51 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Do these people know what a country is?


8 posted on 01/25/2026 4:02:26 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: paulcissa

Nunchucks. I repeat. Those would work. No need for the pushing and shoving. They’ll retreat.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yW3gybMTq2k


9 posted on 01/25/2026 4:03:18 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Every protester in the group with Alex Pretti should have been arrested, charged, tried, and convicted for murder.

This is similar to when a bank guard kills a bankrobber and the rest of the gang of bankrobbers, including the getaway driver, are charged and tried for murder.


10 posted on 01/25/2026 4:04:52 PM PST by Carl Vehse
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‘This is what fascism looks like’

An amazingly stupid statement and article.


11 posted on 01/25/2026 4:11:07 PM PST by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What a load of crap from The Grauniad.

If government was fascist and wants these insurrectionists dead, then ICE would be shooting them by the dozens and stacking up dead Anfifas like cordwood.

What is happening in the USA is a rebellion of marauding anarchists trying to stop the government from reversing their lawlessness of bringing tens of millions of undocumented unknown illegal alien villains and criminals to wreak havoc upon our people.

We all voted, the Majority, to get these illegals out of the USA. Plus the democrats in the shithole cities and blue shithole states are robbing the taxpayer blind! Nothing but excuses.

It is way past time for insurrection Act and martial law in Minnesota and to arrest the Governor there. Every day this idiocy gets worse. Put a stop to it already.


12 posted on 01/25/2026 4:13:11 PM PST by FlyingEagle
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“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.”

Right…. We’re to ignore illegal aliens and the burdens associated with with them. We’re to ignore BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars lost to fraud. We’re supposed to exempt anyone from obeying the law if they’re anything but white.

How about this for The Guardian: the disaster in your backyard is the result of leftist policies you praise. Wake me up when your home country is not swirling the drain towards ‘utopia’.


13 posted on 01/25/2026 4:13:55 PM PST by Made In The USA (One and Two and Three and Four and)
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It is what fascism looks like... The protesters are exactly like the Brownshirts in the streets. Organized revolutionary socialist street brawlers.


14 posted on 01/25/2026 4:14:45 PM PST by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: ConjunctionJunction

A COMMUNIST NEWSPAPER REPORTS !!


15 posted on 01/25/2026 4:17:41 PM PST by Pearfect
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To: MileHi

apparently the Guardian isn’t paying attention to what is going on in Fascist Britain


16 posted on 01/25/2026 4:17:52 PM PST by RaginRak
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Here is what highly organized resistance to the U.S. gov looks like and how deeply involved MN gov officials are in it.

Their PRIVATE CHAT just got LEAKED.

That is a 20 min excerpt from Matt Morse' morning show today. It has receipts, names and a full expose of the tactics and strategies being used in their own words from their own transmissions to their field operatives.

Matt's full show, 1:23:00, can be seen here. One hour of content and commentary and 23 minutes reading his chats w/ his commentary. The first half hour was about yesterday's shooting incident. The second half hour (approx) is in the excerpt linked above.

I don't know how anyone could view this and not consider it mind blowing in scale.

The State of Minnesota is in Full Rebellion Against the United States. (my opinion)

17 posted on 01/25/2026 4:20:26 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat/leftist strategy is "maximum chaos until collapse is acheived.")
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To: RaginRak

Or what the word even means


18 posted on 01/25/2026 4:21:16 PM PST by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“TV mic”

Q:
So if it was a TV Mike and not on vid how do they know who they could be hearing ?

A:
They couldn’t.
Pure analist b.s. meant to incite more violence.

Here is the vid

https://twitter.com/pvtjokerus/status/2015531123502391568

Looks to me like it

shows the perp with the pistol drawn in his hand and the action of the slide as he pulled the trigger and a round was being shot.

I’m sure the media will never show this vid.

Now we can see why President Adams threw media in a cells.

They were/are actively inciting violence on purpose and with nefarious intent IMHO.


19 posted on 01/25/2026 4:23:09 PM PST by cuz1961
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This is what stupid looks like.

L


20 posted on 01/25/2026 4:23:46 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.s)
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