The second round of ‘peaceful protests’ or, as politicians and the media hedge, ‘mostly peaceful protests’, are turning especially peaceful with an armed gunman assaulting Border Patrol personnel and a peaceful protester biting off a finger from a Homeland Security Investigations officer.
Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin shared a photo on social media Saturday of a federal law enforcement officer’s severed finger after an anti-ICE agitator in Minneapolis allegedly bit it off.
“In Minneapolis, these rioters attacked our law enforcement officer and one of them bit off our HSI officer’s finger,” McLaughlin wrote in the post. “He will lose his finger.”
Also…
Hours before McLaughlin’s post, a Border Patrol agent was seen on video fatally shooting an armed man in Minneapolis amid a crowd of agitators.
The 37-year-old man, a U.S. citizen from Minneapolis, allegedly approached agents and then “violently resisted,” while armed with a 9mm pistol and two magazines, according to Homeland Security officials.
Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino said during a news conference on Saturday it “look[ed] like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.”
In other words, mostly peaceful.
Here’s how NBC News covered the story of the armed gunman.
Minneapolis man says Alex Pretti aided his dying father at a Minnesota VA
Pretti would never seek to hurt someone, former colleague and friend says
Mourners gather at makeshift memorial for Alex Pretti
He probably brought his gun to a pro-illegal alien riot because he never wanted to hurt anyone. Or if he did, it was only in the most peaceful possible way.
