The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
These guys were career CBP, NOT new hires. That means ALL CBP is trained and held accountable to the same level as them, and has been for over a decade.
I do think it’s super important to point this out. This wasn’t a greenhorn or a training failure. This was done by people who have been in there for a long time. This speaks to the caliber and type of person ICE and CBP have been hiring for years.
I still don’t buy this wasn’t intentional. Nobody puts 10 bullets (in 2 separate rounds of firing) in somebody who’s already been disarmed and incapacitated by accident. Even for Border Patrol that was excessive. Definitely not the first time they’ve encountered protestors, but the first time a “border czar” happened to be waiting in the wings with the promise this could all be over so quickly if local police would just start rounding people up and handing them over to DHS so that “ICE and Border Patrol could stop putting themselves in danger.”
I’ve seen enough bad cop videos of situations escalating out of control for this not to be a surprise. Our military is trained better at de-escalation tactics than our domestic forces.
When you WANT to kill a few people, and send a message and intimidate your enemy, you give the orders to veteran professionals, not some still damp noob, who might freeze up or shoot himself. You want it to be someone you can count on.
Stephen “PeeWee Himmler” Miller thought that a little of the old untra-violence would scare citizens into their houses, but unfortunately for him, Americans don’t intimidate easily. He views everything from a Nazi perspective, but we aren’t 1930s Germans, still recovering from a WW1 shellacking. Americans are raised on fables of revolution and thrashing the most powerful military in human history.
You kill ours, we don’t back down, we get even. We’re coming for you, PeeWee Himmler.
These guys were career CBP, NOT new hires. That means ALL CBP is trained and held accountable to the same level as them, and has been for over a decade.
I do think it’s super important to point this out. This wasn’t a greenhorn or a training failure. This was done by people who have been in there for a long time. This speaks to the caliber and type of person ICE and CBP have been hiring for years.
I mean I figured it was the case that whoever shot him wasn’t just some rookie, but DHS was even attempting to leak to the press this was just a big whoopsie on account of the new guys being inexperienced, unprofessional, and startled easily.
I still don’t buy this wasn’t intentional. Nobody puts 10 bullets (in 2 separate rounds of firing) in somebody who’s already been disarmed and incapacitated by accident. Even for Border Patrol that was excessive. Definitely not the first time they’ve encountered protestors, but the first time a “border czar” happened to be waiting in the wings with the promise this could all be over so quickly if local police would just start rounding people up and handing them over to DHS so that “ICE and Border Patrol could stop putting themselves in danger.”
Homan has been pushing this bullshit since last summer. If they can’t round people up in the safety of jails, they’ll just have to invade communities.
I’ve seen enough bad cop videos of situations escalating out of control for this not to be a surprise. Our military is trained better at de-escalation tactics than our domestic forces.
This along with things like border patrol operations covering 100 miles inland from every border needed to be fixed years ago IMO.
Especially when airports are considered borders.
When you WANT to kill a few people, and send a message and intimidate your enemy, you give the orders to veteran professionals, not some still damp noob, who might freeze up or shoot himself. You want it to be someone you can count on.
Stephen “PeeWee Himmler” Miller thought that a little of the old untra-violence would scare citizens into their houses, but unfortunately for him, Americans don’t intimidate easily. He views everything from a Nazi perspective, but we aren’t 1930s Germans, still recovering from a WW1 shellacking. Americans are raised on fables of revolution and thrashing the most powerful military in human history.
You kill ours, we don’t back down, we get even. We’re coming for you, PeeWee Himmler.