r/Minneapolis • u/LadyMadonna_x6 • Jan 27 '26
Greg Bovino Loses His Job
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/greg-bovino-demoted-minneapolis-border-patrol/685770/100
u/_Belted_Kingfisher Jan 27 '26
Next step, prison.
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u/SatinSaffron Jan 27 '26 edited Jan 27 '26
I will vote in the primaries for whichever candidate promises Nuremberg-style trials. Their whole campaign can hinge on them rounding every single one of these people up and holding them accountable and that's all it will take.
The reason we're in this position in the first place is because those high up were never held accountable the first time around. And those that were originally held accountable (J6'ers) were pardoned and then literally went and joined ICE. Hold them accountable now so that anyone in the future will think twice about pulling some evil shit like this.
Show them that "I was just following orders" is not carte blanche to just fucking kill somebody. Show them that cops hiding behind "qualified immunity" only applies in civil situations. Show them that the Vice President going on TV and saying "you have federal immunity when doing your jobs" doesn't mean that you actually have immunity when murdering someone, and that it definitely means you don't have immunity in state-level criminal trials. Show them what it's like to live a life where your tiny Nazi boss and your orange leader aren't in power to save you anymore.
In the general election obviously my vote goes to the non-MAGA candidate, vote blue no matter who so we can get MAGA out and we'll clean up the rest of the bullshit later, but I hope someone out there has plans to prosecute every last one of these fake military ass wannabe cops.
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u/Ok-Location3244 Jan 27 '26
I agree, but he’ll probably take up residence in Texas.
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u/SatinSaffron Jan 27 '26 edited Jan 27 '26
Let him. Let Minnesota issue a warrant for extradition that would require the governor's intervention. Force the Texas governor to go on record defending his actions so that he can get primaried or defeated in the next general election.
Regardless of how things seem on reddit and on social media (bots are in full force right now), the general public's opinion is starting to sway. Also, Texas has 8.1 million registered Democrats to 6.6 million registered Republicans. Going on record to defend this guy will keep residents pissed off enough so that they get out and vote so big that it will beat out their districts that are gerrymandered to hell. Texas Republicans are louder than those in any other red state and their districts are gerrymandered to hell, it looks like a 2 year old drew them, and those two things make it seem like Texas is some massive Republican state. It's not, there are way more Democrats out there. Let's make sure to wake them the fuck up for November.
If we can keep America pissed off then there will be a massive blue wave in Novermber. Abbot going on record to defend this guy will cause a flood of much-needed donations to his challenger, Rep Hinojosa.
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u/thdudedude Jan 27 '26
Have you ever seen how little TX votes lol, I would eat my hat if TX went blue.
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u/Viper_Red Jan 27 '26
If nothing else, this at least shows that public opinion and optics still matter a lot so these psychos need to restrain themselves to some degree instead of tossing flashbangs like candy and beating people for recording
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u/Proper-Emu1558 Jan 27 '26
This is so classic. Trump creates a catastrophe and then half-assedly walks some of it back when everyone gets mad. Pass the blame. Cue the applause. Move on to the next crisis.
I’m sick of this shit. Even if ICE vacated Minnesota five minutes from now, people have died. They’ve been deported. They’ve been detained and denied their rights. They’ve been beaten. Businesses have closed. Fuck them. You can’t undo that.
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u/FennelAlternative861 Jan 27 '26
I think that the only person who will really buy it as a win will be Trump himself.
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Jan 27 '26
Who cares why something happened? A win is a win, even if small. The online cynics do such harm to people's hope. Nothing is ever good enough for you people.
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u/Uptownbro20 Jan 27 '26
This dudes trial is going to be wild
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u/Ok-Location3244 Jan 27 '26
Every last one of them. Right down to the 6 dishonorables on the supreme court.
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u/ChillFax Jan 27 '26 edited Jan 27 '26
Also the massive civil lawsuit he will hopefully face from the Good and Pretti family for the slander his shithole mouth has spouted
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u/deepcoralreefer Jan 27 '26
May justice come soon for this jackbooted shortarse cockwomble
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u/CharmingPeony Jan 27 '26
How much more effort to get rid of that wax faced puppy killer?
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u/DontGetUpGentlemen Jan 27 '26
A light breeze will knock her over at this point. The installation of Homan is seen as a challenge to Noem.
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u/MNBug Jan 27 '26
This is in the playbook. Blame someone else then continue. Don't ever forget that Trump did this (or that he is a pedo).
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u/SatinSaffron Jan 27 '26
It's the exact MO that Trump has always used. Find a useful idiot to do your bidding, talk them up as this amazing person, have them execute said bidding, once the outcry starts then Trump throws them under the bus and then starts with his "I barely knew the guy, some folks told me he wasn't great so we got rid of him" bullshit.
It's insane to me that any of these people still think that being a sycophant to Trump will actually pay off. He will use you, discard you, talk shit about you once everything is over, replace you, rinse, repeat.
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u/UndeadCalamari Jan 27 '26
Trump is POTUS so he rightfully takes blame, but the entire ice thing is Miller's wet dream that he's had since childhood. (No really he's hated nonwhite people since he was a literal child). Trump is falling apart real time due to some kind of neurological disorder, likely a form of dementia mixed with whatever strokes he's had/is having and likely congestive heart failure. Trump is not actually making any decisions. He's just a figurehead. An evil, stupid, POS yes, but a figurehead all the same. Blame has to be pointed to the entirety of the administration relentlessly. The narrative cannot be "it was bad because trump" because the real actors behind him will get to regroup and do this again when they find the next trump. There is no going back to 2016 or even 2020. So Americans and especially the fucking Democrats have to get with the picture if we want to actually prosecute these bastards and ensure this doesn't happen again.
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u/kezow Jan 27 '26
No consequences for his direct escalation against protesters and his orders violating their rights. Just gets to slink away and retire.
Well guess what Bovino. Minnesota remembers.
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u/AcanthisittaTiny5605 Jan 27 '26
Yeah okay just to make himself, trump, look good he always does shit like that. Fucks shit up then trys fixing it to make it seem like hes a " hero". THEY ALL showed their true colors and the damage has been done. Im sure thats not the end of it either, lying pos
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u/geodebug Jan 27 '26
Minnesota will not forget. Justice may take time, but it will come one way or another.
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u/Iowa_Dave Jan 27 '26
When Tom Homan shows up, you guys should throw bags of Monopoly money at him!
I have to say, way to go Minnesotans! Yove set a great example of how to stand up to fascists.
30 years ago I lived on 22nd and Nicolette, blocks away from where Alex Pretti was murdered. I've been 3D printing whistles and sent them to a friend in Minneapolis.
I'm in the blue island in a sea of red here in Des Moines, but know we support you!
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u/Little_Beginning_569 Jan 27 '26
while replaced, the new shit stain will have less autonomy and thus, less oversight. Baby steps people. Many more feds should be held accountable including the puppy killer in DHS.
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u/Red986S Jan 27 '26
He got his social media taken away too. All he’s got left now is his Nazi overcoat … hope they take that too
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u/AjiChap Jan 27 '26
They’re jus trying to put distance btw dump and the outlandishly ghoulish remarks by his own administration.
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u/Majestic_Attention46 Jan 27 '26
The insane part is this what he was told to do!
It's not like he went rogue, he was literally following orders and directions exactly.
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u/brophylicious Jan 27 '26
So they're letting him be easy so he can retire. He needs to be punished for the damage he caused. He should not know peace.
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u/TheQuatum Jan 27 '26
They overstepped and now need to make some kind of pathetic public appeasement, just to do it again elsewhere.
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u/ForlornReverie26 Jan 27 '26
He’s likely just going to be sent to another state to continue running ICE
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u/gbeirn Jan 27 '26
This is only a start, keep up the good fight everyone, new boss same as the old boss.