If you’re reading these words, odds are, the mainstream corporate news outlets aren’t for you. They’re for gullible people who don’t fully comprehend why appeal to authority is a fallacy.
The picture above shows two photos of Alex Pretti, the person who died in a confrontation with ICE agents just days ago. And let’s be honest about the incident, we still don’t fully know what happened. This in spite of the fact that everyone has just become a forensic video specialist, graduated from the University of YouTube.
One of the videos is the original, depicting a yam-head Pretti, while the other shows an edited version, looking more Chadish. Can you guess which one MSNPC went with?
Understandably, you might be skeptical. After all, that “original” looks like the kind of bullshit that someone would put up on social media when they want to accuse someone of being some kind of predator without any receipts.
But, merited or not, the creep vibe does emanate:
Guy looks like he grew out the sides of his beard in a sad attempt to hide his oblong head.
That MSNPC told the lie that they did tells us plenty. For one thing, just how little they trust you to come to their conclusion if allowed to do so with less processed information (you know, the truth). What’s more, their assumption about you is that you won’t feel sympathy for someone who’s not attractive, which Alex Pretti certainly was not.
But not only that, this tells us just how little they expect their audience, what little of it remains, to go on social media and quickly, easily find the unedited originals, and thus discover that MSNPC flat-out lied to them.
And why wouldn’t you? If the last decade is anything to go by, it’s that corporate mainstream news outlets are not to be trusted. And they’ll lie to you, in spite of the fact that an alternative exists in the form of citizen journalists, who you’ll be able to connect with easily by just using social media. And not only that, you can participate in the comment sections which, among other things, supplements or challenges the narrative being provided.
But it seems as though news outlets such as MSNPC is aware that the few remaining viewers that they do pander to are those who view social media with suspicion, sticking with sources that they view as authoritative for the comfort that they get out of the trusted outlets of days gone by.
I know that parsing truth from among conflicting viewpoints takes mental work, but sometimes, you need to develop new skills to remain competitive.
Now, to be fair, CNN does run a story telling us that just days prior to his fatal shooting, Alex Pretti was in a confrontation with federal agents in which one of his ribs was broken:
From what I could tell, CNN was honest with its reporting of this update, so credit where it’s due.
But as for Pretti, it seems as though the more that we learn about him, the worse that he starts to look. After all, if this guy was a peaceful protestor, as leftists were making him out to be, what was he doing confronting the same organization which had previously injured him just days before?
Just today, we have footage of the event where his rib was broken. It shows as he kicked out a tail light of an ICE vehicle which was driving from him.
Let’s be honest here: attacking a vehicle that is leaving the scene is clearly an aggressive move. If someone is leaving, they are not an imminent threat justifying the use of force. Pretti was detained, as he should have been.
He was also released, which he should not have been. He might still be alive if he were not released pending a trial (assuming there would be one). He was a violent offender, and granting him freedom clearly granted him an opportunity to get into another confrontation in which he would escalate matters beyond his ability to manage.
Interestingly, during the non-lethal incident, Pretti was in possession of the same gun that he would later bring to the incident in which he lost his life.
Getting back to that incident, I have a hypothesis as to what happened. Like everyone else who is being honest, I can admit that the footage of the fatal incident is terrible in quality to the point that it seems impossible to determine what was going on in the last few seconds Pretti had to behave like a total fuckwit.
As Pretti was brought down to the ground, the officers did succeed in taking his gun from him, and it was set on the ground. That much seems apparent.
However, I suspect that there was an unfortunate accident that caused his own gun to go off, causing the ICE officers around him to react. During the video, one of the officers moved away. As he did so, it would seem as though he may have stepped on the gun, which would have almost certainly been an accident.
And, as it so happens, Alex’s gun was a shitty-ass Sig Sauer, which are famous for NDing (Negligent Discharging). In some models, just squeezing the gun while the trigger has traveled a certain amount is all it would take for it to ND. And in the case of those models, stepping on it would likely do it.
In fact, this got significant attention just six months prior. The following video from around that time shows ND from a Sig Sauer:
So this was actually not anything new. The Sig Sauer brand actually is famous for being fucking shit.
If the incident went down as I suspect it did, then Alex Pretti’s death is a result of several factors: an officer accidentally stepping on a gun, the reactions of the officers to the sound of the initial gunshot, Alex Pretti’s poor taste in firearms, and, of course, Alex’s repeated decision to get into fights that he stood no chance of winning.
When thinking about Alex Pretti, something occurred to me. The left doesn’t actually have heroes. They have distorted theories about people that they’ve deemed useful to them.
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