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What happened in the Alex Pretti killing and why is it sparking outrage?
Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Don Lemon Show. Good evening to you. The reason our guest is up right away is because we want to get as much of Rick Wilson as possible. Rick, I know that you and I on these particular issues often have very similar stances and ideas and opinions and views. On this one, it is... I'll save my ire because I used so many F-bombs this morning. I think that my audience is probably... It is outrageous. Luckily, I am the national reservoir. I'm the strategic reserve of F-bombs for the country. It just keeps getting worse. Welcome, Rick Wilson. By the way, congratulations on your new marriage. Very happy for you, newlywed. Thank you very much. It was delightful. As you saw what happened this weekend.
And then the response from the administration as it unfolds. Were you as outraged and angry as I was and am? Don, I've tried to teach myself over the last decade that as low as they go, they can always go lower. But the fact that this wasn't even a video that was, there wasn't even a shadow of a doubt. He did not have a gun in his hand. They mobbed him, pepper sprayed him, knocked him down, took the gun that was legally being carried in his holster, in his trousers, and then shot him eight times in the back. And then sat there, instead of giving him CPR, counted the bullet holes and high-fived each other and thought, hey, we're heroes. And this administration that immediately rolls out, domestic terrorists, domestic terrorists,
Everything we know about Alex Pretty has made it even harder to take that this was a good man, that this was a man who did good work in his community that that was protecting someone when this occurred. And it is it's it's both I was both enraged and heartbroken by this story. And we have to look at it in the eye and call it what it is. This is a public execution. This is a public execution by American secret police. And there's nothing this administration can do right now to make up for this at all, except take every one of these people out of every American city. They're not about immigration anymore. They're about abusing and killing American citizens. Yep. That's what they're about. And I don't know what the answer is, Rick, because...
If the state has any recourse, but the number of federal agents outnumber the local police force. They are even, look at this, this is ridiculous. You can see that they attacked this man. He was not the aggressor here. There's so many angles of this video. But they outnumber the police force. They're blocking them from investigating this. They're blocking them from even getting close to the scene. This is going to end badly. It's sadly it's going to get worse. And I don't want that to happen. But, Rick, it is going to get worse. And what happens? I said, God forbid. What happens if there is one of these goons and they get killed? That is going to it's going to be turmoil. Don, I wrote a piece yesterday evening sort of imagining what happens when ice fires into a crowd for the first time.
It kills more than one person at a time when they move from killing retail to killing wholesale. And if they do that, I think this country is at that point kind of lost. I think we're in a civil war at that point. I think that these people in the Trump administration want it. I think they want that level of violence against Americans because they want to scare people. They want to control people. And, you know, even today, you've got people in the White House, Insurrection Act, Insurrection Act. Now, that's probably Stephen Miller off the record. But none of this... is America. This is not the rule of law. This is not the Constitution. This is not civil rights or civil liberties. This is a mad, angry bunch of men who have been sent there with no training, no discipline, and no values to assault and attack American citizens.
And if Chuck Schumer doesn't stop this damn CR this week, then ICE is going to get $75 billion more to do more of this to us. Oh, boy. Speaking of Stephen Miller, Stephen Miller was addressed at the White House briefing this afternoon.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What happened in the Alex Pretti killing and why is it sparking outrage?
0:13–5:30
2
How did ICE and federal agents reportedly behave on the scene according to the video?
5:30–21:04
3
Why are administration officials and MAGA commentators calling Alex Pretti a 'domestic terrorist'?
21:04–50:19
4
How does the Kyle Rittenhouse precedent factor into responses about armed civilians at protests?
50:19–55:28
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