I did a good bit of this at The Hayride on Monday, in a post objecting to endangered RINO Senator Bill Cassidy’s going wobbly on the ICE deployments after last weekend’s developments. Let’s start with what I said there, and then we’ll add more after the excerpt…
I’m not about to say I was happy over the death of a radical anti-ICE protester over the weekend. His name was Alex Pretti, and he was a 37-year-old male nurse at a VA hospital who appeared to be well-liked and good at his job.
I’ve watched the videos of Pretti’s death at the hands of ICE agents over the weekend, and counter to what the Left are now screaming in unison that he was “murdered,” I don’t claim any particular superpowers of discernment that indicate much other than a scrum, chaos and utterly idiotic situation that was bound to go badly.
What I do know is that Alex Pretti brought a gun to a protest of federal law enforcement agents engaged in an operation to deport a criminal illegal alien. He had a right to carry a firearm to that protest. But then Alex Pretti thought it would be a good idea to grapple with ICE agents as the protest turned into a mini-riot, and found out different...
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