"How do we make sense of Pretti being murdered for coming to the aid of another female ICE victim? We don’t. Maybe it’s a coincidence, maybe it’s related. We know the fascists don’t want white people standing up for immigrants and other people of color, who are the main victims of Operation Metro Surge (and all the other perversely named federal invasions, including Maine’s revolting 'Catch of the Day,' as though immigrants are fish to be caught and killed.) And apparently, they don’t want men coming to the aid of the women they assault.
"But it was not lost on Pretti’s devastated parents that he died “while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper-sprayed,” they said in a statement. They wanted us to know that fact. 'Please get the truth out about our son,' they added. 'He was a good man.'” -- Joan Walsh, The Nation, on the character of Alex Pretti, slain by the domestic terrorist organization DHS, while coming to the aid of a female fellow protester. Walsh rightly connects the dark irony of this act of brave decency compared with the brutal, fascistic violence directed at women and children by sad little heavily armed masked males. A time of great evil.
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