...agents surround a car of U.S. citizens who were legally observing law enforcement activity this morning in Minneapoli [View all]
These folks had guns pulled out by the agents and pointed at them.
I hope these agents get sued.
BREAKING: ICE/Border Patrol agents pulled guns on a car full of legal observers, saying they needed to “ID” them TODAY, because agents claim they had guns YESTERDAY.
Read that again.
Agents openly admit this stop had nothing to do with anything happening now, but with something they claim happened the day before.
That sounds a lot like U.S. citizens being stopped and detained for exercising their First Amendment rights, while agents catalog people they believe exercise their Second Amendment rights, into their database.
A database that, allegedly, included Alex Pretti.
In the video, agents surround a car of U.S. citizens who were legally observing law enforcement activity this morning in Minneapolis.
Multiple agents have their weapons drawn… guns turned sideways… pointed directly at a car full of U.S. citizens, ordering everyone out of the vehicle.
Not just the driver.
Every single person in the car, including people in the back seat.
This was a full-vehicle detention of legal observers, at gunpoint, with no immediate threat, and no lawful basis.
That alone is an excessive and illegal use of force.
The agents then demand that the people filming produce press credentials, further confirming that agents are illegally denying people their First Amendment rights to observe and record law enforcement activity…
Because press credentials are not required to film police.
They never have been.
And then, at the very end of the video, the justification for the illegal detainment finally slips out.
An agent admits the stop happened because YESTERDAY they claim these same people “threatened” agents with handguns.
Then the agent’s story changes…
The agent says, “they pulled them out, trying to engage us.”
A member of the press asks, “Pulling out literal guns?”
Then agent’s story changes AGAIN…
“No. Assuming that we were going to do something.”
So, no guns were actually pulled, and no threats were actually made.
The “threat” was that people disclosed they were armed… which is exactly what concealed carry holders are trained to do when law enforcement engages with you.
And then the agent finally admits what this stop is really about.
Saying, “That’s why they are being IDed right now.”
So TODAY, agents illegally stopped a car full of legal observers, at gunpoint, to illegally identify and catalog U.S. citizens…
Because YESTERDAY, those citizens lawfully exercised their Second Amendment rights.
If this doesn’t set off blaring alarm bells for the NRA and anyone who claims to be “pro–Second Amendment,” nothing should.
ICE/Border Patrol agents just used guns, intimidation, and an illegal detention to punish U.S. citizens, after the fact, for lawful gun ownership.
That is government retaliation.
And it’s exactly what the Second Amendment was supposed to protect people from.
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