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Civil Unrest in Minneapolis. Trump Chooses Violence to Deal With Protestors.

Well by now everybody has seen the videos of another death by police in Minneapolis, by individuals connected to the state. The footage by cellphone shows the man, Alex Pretti, approached officers beating a man, and tried to record it on his cell phone. The police response was swift, firing 10 shots at Pretti, who was caught up in the chaos, leaving him dead.

The first fibs from the Trump administration was he approached the officers with a gun drawn. Well after seeing peoples footage who were watching and filming, it became clear Pretti, although armed with a gun, had it holstered. Rather he had his cell phone out when he was beaten and shot by riot police.

It is legal to carry a gun in Minneapolis to a demonstration, WIsconsin has similar laws. We saw this with Kyle Rittenhouse,when it was legal for him to not only carry a gun in Kenosha, but to kill 2 people in the demonstration, and cripple a third.

Regardless of what one may think is proper, with some Republican bourgeois trying to say it is illegal to come to the demonstration armed, the right to join a militia in the second amendment of the constitution should lay waste to this concern.

They made their bed now they can sleep in it. All those years of arguments for less gun control, only to suggest it was illegal for Pertti to have a gun on him. If you can’t take it, don’t dish it out.

If Trump wanted to help local law enforcement, he could have just increased spending on Milwaukee PD. You would think this would be the first thing he would do; logically to stop a crime problem use the police.

Instead Don has called out the National Guard, ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), DHS (department of homeland security), etc, supposedly to help police in lawless cities.

Instead we see films of ICE killing our countrymen, and it is a worry people will just get hardened to seeing this and soon it will soon not bother them so much.

It is still a mystery who constitutes the federal government, who trains them, and where they came from to Minneapolis. What is clear is these are Trump’s men, and are loyal to him. He is responsible for his troops like any other commander in the Army. The buck stops there.

Trump seems to have no guilty conscience, and it would be a surprise if he was to call and talk to Pretti’s family, and apologize. Don is not the apology type. He still stubbornly refuses to let even the local police investigate the shooting of Pretti.

Minneapolis is a day trip by car from Milwaukee. Chicago is closer to Milwaukee, but Minneapolis is basically the next stop after Milwaukee on the train. All we can do is hope Trump will not start calling Milwaukee “woke” and send in ICE next.

Nicholas Jay Boyes

Milwaukee Wisconsin

American Democratic Republic

1 26 2026

The epitome of the situation regarding the latest example of a worker getting killed who was innocent is this:

“WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (Reuters) – The Trump administration said on Saturday it was appealing a ruling by a federal judge that put limits on tactics employed by U.S. immigration agents operating in Minneapolis.”

“In a brief filing, lawyers for the Department of Justice told the court they were appealing an order issued by the judge on Friday that barred federal officers from arresting or tear-gassing peaceful demonstrators and observers.”

Reuters 1 19 2026

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-appeals-limits-agents-tactics-toward-minnesota-protesters-2026-01-19/

The judge put “limits on tactics employed by US Immigration agents operating in Minneapolis”. This sounds like soft language from the judge, yet the reaction was what almost seems humorous.

The Department of Justice was “appealing an order issued by the judge on Friday that barred federal officers from arresting or tear-gassing peaceful demonstrators and observers.”

Wow. What does that say to you? I suppose Donald Trump should get the Nobel Peace Prize.

It is sort of like a moment like his first term., when he had the streets cleared of Black Lives Matter protestors, and brandished a bible upside down in front of the local DC church. The memories of the leader of the Army in the group striding forth into the tear gassed remains of the demonstration, Trump by his side, what a spectacle!

There has yet to be riots of the scale Wisconsin saw in the last presidential term of Trump. Remember Kyle Rittenhauer, the northern Illinois man who came to the demonstration with a loaded assault weapon? Then after shooting it he ran from the other demonstrators running after him, slipping and falling on his long gun, and then fearing the protestors, killed two and crippled another?

And what did he get for this? No jail time, the north Illinois man had high powered lawyers who got the case completely dropped.

Well Don has the Nobel Peace Prize now, given to him by the woman who won a primary election in Venezuela against Nicholas Maduro, currently a political prisoner in New York.

When it happens in Wisconsin we expect it. The court ruling Trump is appealing, that attempts to suggest it is wrong to use violence against protestors, will probably be overturned. In the meantime, the demonstrations continue.

Nicholas Jay Boyes

MIlwaukee Wisconsin

American Democratic Republic

1 19 2026