Minnesota protesters bit off federal agent’s finger during protest, DHS claims

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/protester-bites-off-federal-agent-finger-minneapolis-b2907101.html

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watson387@sopuli.xyz · 165 pts · 223d (5 replies)

They're just trying to paint the protestors as feral animals. Just another attempt to dehumanize "the enemy".

oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 49 pts · 223d (1 reply)

Dehumanizing people, totally not a thing that predates bloodshed ever. Just ignore every war ever, every genocide ever, every massacre ever…

watson387@sopuli.xyz · 26 pts · 223d

Exactly.

Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip · 39 pts · 223d (1 reply)

They dehumanize themselves more and more each day.

watson387@sopuli.xyz · 19 pts · 223d

No doubt.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 221d

they have to keep the soundbites for fox ongoing, since republicans have memories of goldfish.

BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz · 88 pts · 223d

Protesters bit off a FINGER and that NURSE was a TERRORIST and that MOTHER was a TERRORIST!

-Republicans who Do Their Own Thinking!

Tikiporch@lemmy.world · 84 pts · 222d

You know how I know this didn't happen? They didn't kill the person who allegedly did it.

sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world · 71 pts · 223d

Was it his trigger finger? Because at this point I think that's self-defense

aramis87@fedia.io · 64 pts · 223d

Oh, just like the "internal bleeding" (a bruise) that Renee Good's murderer had?

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 223d (4 replies)
  • DHS, in a post on X, said the man "approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun" and that "officers attempted to disarm the suspect but the armed suspect violently resisted."
  • "Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, an agent fired defensive shots," the post continued.

Lies.

800XL@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 222d (2 replies)

They are really fragile, aren't they?

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 222d (1 reply)

Brave men shooting nurses in the back of the head.

800XL@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 221d

The snowflakes

MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 221d

"defensive shots"

Translation: emptying an entire magazine into the now-unmoving, limp body of the innocent human being you and your baby-dick friends executed publicly with a single bullet to the head, because you were tired of him struggling whilst you were ruthlessly beating upon him.

ccunning@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 223d

No they didn’t…
…ask any jury…

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org · 49 pts · 223d

Based if true

over_clox@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 223d

Even if true, the title is straight up misleading bullshit.

'protesters' is plural, so you mean to tell me it took multiple protesters to bite off a single finger?

Why do I already smell some level of bullshit? 🤔

Chozo@fedia.io · 44 pts · 223d (1 reply)

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin shared graphic photos on X showing the officer’s bleeding finger alongside the severed portion preserved in a jar.

Bullshit. Why would they put it in a jar? Did the agents just have jars laying around? Because a medical professional wouldn't have put it in a jar.

Willing to bet that this is more AI-powered misinformation.

hector@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 222d

Bit off fingers would be reattatched not put in a jar. These clowns do not think they have to try to make anything believable to us reality based folk.

Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 223d

They're not wearing gloves?

In this weather?

apftwb@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 222d (1 reply)

Hight of - 2 and low of -10 (-19/-27 in C). Yeah that is glove weather.

Crazy we don't have 14 different videos of the event, just a photo I cannot even see because its on X.

MeThisGuy@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 222d

x cancel. com

AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 223d

She also posted images of two individuals allegedly involved in the attack, though their roles and identities remain unclear.

I’ve seen cops do this at protests—they’ll grab a few random, odd-looking people just because they look scary, so they can post their mugshots the next day alongside their narrative of events. Then once the news cycle is over they’re released without charges.

FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com · 33 pts · 223d (1 reply)

Good!

pageflight@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 223d

Yeah. And even if true, still not a crime that merits extrajudicial execution. And I don't believe it until we see the body cam footage (oh, is there none?).

frongt@lemmy.zip · 30 pts · 223d

Why did an ICE agent put his finger in someone's mouth?

ButtermilkBiscuit@feddit.nl · 28 pts · 222d (2 replies)

Saw the pic, clearly AI. Are they just making shit up again? Hang these fuckers

BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 222d

If they’re not AI — and I suspect they are at least AI doctored because the anatomy is wrong — then it is absolutely not a bite wound. Everything they say, every statement they make, is a bald faced lie.

DCErik@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 222d

He got better...

Blackmist@feddit.uk · 27 pts · 221d

Sorry, you'll need that on video from at least three angles.

You know, like the ones we have of your murderers.

breezeblock@lemmy.ca · 26 pts · 223d

I don’t believe you.

sik0fewl@piefed.ca · 26 pts · 223d
mrslt@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 221d (2 replies)

Probably didn't happen, but I approve if it did. Next time, go for the eyes.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 221d

Biting the hand that beats you.

Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 221d

Boo would 100% go to town on ICE.

kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 221d

What was that finger doing in or near a protesters mouth? And what was the agent doing to the protester at that the time? If you're unlawfully beating or kidnapping me and I have no other defense, you better believe biting is an option. Keep your hands to yourself and you won't have this problem.

Sharkticon@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 223d (3 replies)

Such utter bullshit. There's no way anyone who's seen the videos believe this. The person who shot him came up behind him and just executes him. This is such an utter bald-faced lie and the fact that apparently the independent is repeating in this disgusting matter is such an indictment of their integrity.

TheRealKuni@piefed.social · 15 pts · 223d (2 replies)

I’m not sure they’re referring to Alex Pretti.

Edit: Yeah they’re talking about two other people.

Sharkticon@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 223d (1 reply)

They're talking bullshit is what they're talking.

TheRealKuni@piefed.social · 11 pts · 223d

Well yes. But different bullshit.

Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 223d

Hopefully it was his trigger finger

aesthelete@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 221d

Me to DHS:

HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 221d

My first question would be to ask why the agent's hand was in their face to begin with

DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 221d

"We executed two white American citizens 1300 miles from the southern border. The optics are horrible. Quick, make shit up."

frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 12 pts · 223d

Whatever goes in my mouth is fair game, biting is reflexive

HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 222d (2 replies)

I hope they keep it. Fascists don't deserve fingers.

Darukhnarn@feddit.org · 7 pts · 222d

Fascists deserve one thing and one thing only: death.

agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 222d

Well ...

Rhaedas@fedia.io · 11 pts · 223d

Which ER did they go to? Hmmm.

Sharkticon@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 223d

Bullshit

frunch@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 221d

ICE has killed 2 people out there recently. This is nothing

merdaverse@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 221d

Damn, I hope the protesters are alright. Putting poisonous scum in your mouth is bad for your health.

RustyShackleford@programming.dev · 10 pts · 221d

PointlessProtestAgainstTheMachine@lemmy.org · 6 pts · 223d

MY FUCKING HERO

phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 221d

Sure.

If I may quote my friend Wikipedia:

As in: show me the fucking evidence and I'll believe that a protester was assaulted badly enough for them to try and defend themselves.

Without evidence though, I'm not believing this further than I can throw Der Führer the president

sudo@programming.dev · 5 pts · 223d

Neat

rosefiend@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 221d

They said this because they blew off a protesters finger.

Sunflier@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 222d
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antonamo@feddit.org · 1 pts · 221d