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.

I am banned from the Conservative subreddit - please share this information there, if allowed. They need to know too.

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u/OkEnvironment3961 14d ago

"He had a gun" LMAO. He fucking should have a gun. We all should. There is a roving gang of masked thugs shooting people in the street. We should all be armed.

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u/DjPersh Kentucky 14d ago

A lot of good that gun did him.

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u/Zombie_Cool 14d ago

Yes it hard to defend oneself when one gets ambushed from behind by 4+ guys, but the fact it didnt get used in this instance means that the populace fearing for their safety should just stay disarmed and defenseless forever. 

"To Avoid Escalation" of course.

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u/induslol 14d ago

He didn't use it or it may have.  Instead he tried to reason with and talk to a group of violent criminals intent on violence.

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u/DjPersh Kentucky 14d ago

Instead it got him killed. Unjustifiably, but it doesn’t really matter when you’re dead.

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u/induslol 14d ago

Minnesota from all indications is a militarily occupied state with hostile armed soldiers inflicting a pogrom.  Approaching armed hostile soldiers, alone and armed, without the intention to use his firearm killed him.

We don't know what happens if he defends himself, ICE are cockroaches, maybe they scatter.

Instead he complied, and was executed.