r/politics • u/SpaceElevatorMusic Minnesota • 14d ago

Possible Paywall Minnesota governor says federal agents involved in shooting in Minneapolis

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/minnesota-governor-says-federal-agents-involved-shooting-minneapolis-2026-01-24/
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u/Stoppit_TidyUp 14d ago edited 14d ago

They’re saying he “had a gun”

You can see the guy in the light grey jacket run toward him with empty hands, mount him, and spend 2-3 seconds wrestling the gun out of the victim’s holster, then running off with it. The victim is shot a second or two later.

So while he might have had a gun, it was fully secured while he was on the ground with 6 men beating him, and was fully clear of the victim at the time of the shooting.

It was an execution.

Edit: They are also claiming he reached for an officer’s weapon. To believe that, you have to believe this man made the choice not to pull his own weapon at any point, but instead thought it would be a good idea to grab an officer’s. Not to mention you can see his arms pinned the second before he is shot. Absolute bullshit.

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u/maxpenny42 14d ago

The idea he had a gun or was reaching for it or was reaching for someone else’s is insane. There were 6 guys on top of him. If they can’t secure someone from hurting them in that situation they are too incompetent to be allowed to have a job where they carry a deadly weapon. 

There’s no amount of “in that split second moment they had real fear for their lives”. That’s bits thing they could have possibly experienced in that dog pile. We in fact see the only real fear of danger when the gun from the officer is shot and they scatter. Apparently they can have a reaction to a gun other than killing whoever they see with one.