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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...

Tensions are running high within the Metropolitan police after another anti-lockdown protest descended into scenes of violence, with eight officers injured. Ken Marsh, the chair of the Metropolitan Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers in the force, said he would be raising the matter of the protest with senior management with “utmost urgency”. Demonstrators hurled bottles as officers attempted to disperse the crowds in Hyde Park on Saturday evening after a rally against restrictions implemented to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Eight officers injured policing anti-lockdown protest in London Photographs posted on social media showed a female police...