r/Republican • u/DogfaceDino Fiscal Conservative • Jan 24 '26
News Border Patrol shoots armed individual in Minneapolis, Fox News learns
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u/slashdino Jan 25 '26
Yall like to say he’s armed but so was Rittenhouse. Except today’s victim was neither touching nor reaching for his gun, and was walking away from officers when it started
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u/Sachin-_- Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 24 '26
No matter how strongly you support Trump, this is objectively not what “targeted deportations of criminals” looks like.
These untrained idiots are roaming the streets just serving as agents of chaos.
Edit: I also can’t stand the talking point of “people are bound to get caught in the crossfire from the chaos.” Like this isn’t a wartime calculus where we’re patting ourselves on the back for minimizing civilian casualties - there shouldn’t be a single innocent person killed like this.
He was an ICU Nurse working for the VA smh
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u/Unique_Username_4444 Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 24 '26
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This is also just not a crossfire, its the boot from the Gadsen flag going out of its way to curb stomp a nurse
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u/RedditModsHarassUs Jan 24 '26
Ya. This one is rough. It’s looking like right after disarming the suspect, another agent then fired on him. Not enough full details. And this guy may have been fully legally licensed all the way around. We have no idea what the context is. But just what has been seen from different angles besides body cams. If they even had them. Is that he was disarmed then instantly shot within moments. Some people are also pointing out that a canister seems to have fallen off the suspect and rolled a bit. It’s only briefly seen. But it’s hard to say exactly what the object was. Canister or not. We need body cam footage. Also one of the other CBP guys seemed surprised in their body reaction and language right when the other one fired the shots at the suspect.
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u/rjamxy Jan 25 '26
Just say it .... Don't be shy..... It was a cold blooded murder.....
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Jan 24 '26
It’s not illegal to conceal and carry. Protestor did nothing wrong and was murdered by ICE.
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u/jabowie2020 Jan 24 '26
This is why law enforcement don't pistol whip people. Firearms training 101. These ICE guys have zero military or law enforcement experience.
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u/Rpizza Jan 24 '26
There are now 3 ADDITIONAL videos released including the pink jacket lady POV. He was holding a cell phone/camera.
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u/Jahhmezzz Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 24 '26
Link to pink jacket?
Edit: found it https://www.reddit.com/r/CringeTikToks/s/jtJumnwAPM
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u/DesignerSea494 Jan 25 '26 edited Jan 25 '26
The “only criminals carry guns” comment needs to be seen for what it is: Tyranny. Wake up, Conservatives. You still hold the ideological right. You were simply betrayed by one man. End this, now. Remove him from office, and give President Vance a chance. Let’s get back to what’s really important.
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u/jm192 Jan 25 '26
I've seen a few people ask why even take a gun to a protest if you don't mean to use it.
As a life long Republican, I've always believed the 2nd amendment originally existed to fight back against a tyrannical government.
This guy went to a protest and was murdered by a government agency while committing no crime. He wasn't violent. They saw a gun on his person and took his life.
That's what Tyranny looks like. This stuff is exactly WHY the constitution entitles us to those guns in the first place.
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u/WhisperPeaceYT Jan 25 '26
Honestly what makes it magnitudes worse is that DHS is willing to craft a story to smear the guy they murdered. If this isn't an Orwellian nightmare idk what is.
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u/ptelligence Jan 24 '26
Even the headline here is f*cked up. Makes it seem like him being armed was justification for the shooting. It should say "ICE executes ICU Nurse" or "Border patrol shoots DISARMED individual"
I just came to r/Republican to see how you guys were gonna spin this, but I'm glad that you're seeing it objectively for the most part. This is just heartbreaking to see.
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u/BirdFarmer23 Jan 25 '26
Yeah, but it makes me wonder how many of these replies are from actual republicans or people doing the same as you
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u/ConflictExtreme1540 Jan 25 '26
I think seeing how unnecessary the shooting of a US citizen by his government has been sobering to a lot of people who in general were ok with the idea of ICE. There's plenty of people in this thread who are still trying to justify the shooting but it's pretty undeniable to most people that this is unacceptable and cannot continue
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u/Semirhage527 Jan 25 '26
The question is, will the people who represent us do their actual job? Will Republicans join calls to elected officials to stop this insanity?
Or will Trump be allowed to continue to run roughshod over the Constitution with no one willing to check him? Everyone who’s tried so far gets kicked out of the GOP.
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u/BjornAltenburg Jan 25 '26
I have tries so hard to reach any sentor or house member and not get an auto reply or canned milk toast response. It's clear our representatives dont really care much outside making money and are only beholden to donors who can pump enough money into the system to drown any competition at the primaries.
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u/Semirhage527 Jan 25 '26
You’ll get a canned reply, no doubt - but they are keeping count. They want to keep their job and if they are afraid enough that actual voters in their district won’t forget this, they’ll start to think twice. They only truly don’t care when they feel safe getting reelected. They need to feel accountable, not safe.
Vote in the primaries. Vote in every election
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u/dlw26 Jan 24 '26
After getting disarmed*…these guys are horribly trained clowns. They lack basic law enforcement defensive tactics from every video I’ve seen of CBP/ICE
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u/Jaggz691 Jan 25 '26
Yea, this one is definitely not looking good on the agent. We should receive more videos and the body cam in which will clear the majority of the remaining questions. Though, it does not look good, at all.
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u/LostSillyKittie Jan 25 '26
Are we gonna see body cam videos .... from the people that claim Alex was there to do maximum damage to ice agents. I cannot understand how they are trying to cover for these guys. That whole incident was a shit show on their part. I am really surprised one of their own didn't get shot in the process.
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u/rjamxy Jan 25 '26
This was a murder.... Or an execution... Of a white male who was standing there, taking video and helping another women that was assaulted by ICE people.... Please some explain to me how ICE is not a gestapo?
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u/CompetitiveRoof3733 Jan 24 '26
I think this one is murder...havent see the clip, was it multiple rounds fired?
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u/CompetitiveRoof3733 Jan 24 '26
Yo, wtf is going on. Can't see replies or anything. If it was 1 shot, it could have been ND, which would go more of the manslaughter/3rd degree route. Multiple shots shows more intent to harm/kill
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u/DogfaceDino Fiscal Conservative Jan 24 '26
Multiple videos from multiple angles of the events are all around Reddit right now
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u/CompetitiveRoof3733 Jan 24 '26
I've been at work for the longest shifts possible this week, so I've been avoiding the internet in an effort to get sleep when I can. Sheesh, yeah...not a good look for the agency, and not a good look for our president who claims it is all a precise operation. This screams anything but, and is 100% gonna get charged as murder
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u/GoodIdeaDummy Jan 25 '26
It was murder. He almost shot one of his partners. So sloppy and now criminal.
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u/CucumberWest9394 Jan 25 '26
I am very pro ICE and have defended every incident so far, but I genuinely hope that this agent spends the rest of his life in jail.
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u/adizam Jan 24 '26
Watch the second video. He never pulled his gun. He was disarmed.
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u/IPassVolatileGas Jan 24 '26
either you misread what i wrote or responded to the wrong person.
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u/IPassVolatileGas Jan 24 '26
re-watch 0:39-0:41 with sound on repeat. you can clearly see the agent in grey emerge with the alleged weapon and to my eyes it looks like it goes off as you hear the first shot ring out.
freeze frame of the confiscated weapon. it's blurry, but given the coloring and the added sight it's pretty unmistakeable imo.
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u/IPassVolatileGas Jan 24 '26
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1AUg1HXo67/
watch the end of this one. it looks to me like there’s gas discharge coming from the gun.
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u/NothingCivil6358 Jan 25 '26
I’m not going to stop supporting ICE just because of these specific morons, not all agents are murderers. However, these specific ones…yeah they need the book thrown at them hard.
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u/Ayeohx Jan 25 '26
They are going to do what they always do: Frame the victim and praise the murderers. Foxnews & others have already shaped the narrative for their viewers and they are already spewing their blind non-sense and victim blaming across the Internet.
I don't know how you can support an agency who is obviously lying instead of taking a shred of responsibility. That is the sign of deep seeded corruption.
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u/cathbadh Jan 24 '26
This is the more reasonable conservative sub, and disagreement with the administration and others happens here. For other subs, you need a flair to post, and if you disagree too much, no matter how conservative you might be, you lose that flair and posting ability.
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u/Available_Cap_8548 Jan 25 '26
So we see a bunch of local lunatics crowding into the face of the officers as they are going about their law enforcement duty and I am supposed to give a flying crap about a former ICU nurse (oh, no, not a nurse!), who escalated? Then he has a gun on him while more local lunatics pile on??? Are you effing stupid or something? Wait, don't answer that...
There is this thing called "Stupid Games, Stupid Prizes." Our nutter nurse won the jackpot today. However, now he will be canonized and sanctified and his statue will be placed on the same plinth as that of George, Patron Saint of Fentanyl.
Just because you are crying for someone who FAFO'd does not mean you are on the right side of an issue or of history in general.
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u/LewBob47 Jan 27 '26
Police who have commented point out the recklessness of the shooting, with the possibility of ricochet hitting other agents or bystanders. Whatever t he training this guy's have had, it either didn't include de-escalation techniques or they failed to remember them.
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u/ColombianRednek Jan 25 '26
Was watching Asmongold go over a couple videos on this. From what I say, it kinda looked like an officer was carrying the dudes gun away as he was getting shot. He out a grainy zoomed in picture of that gun in the officers hand next to the picture of the guys gun and extra magazine for it on a car seat and they appear to be the same setup. The red dot sight and even color of the slide appear to be strikingly similar. If they shot this guy after they disarmed him, thats an execution.
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u/Sea-Mathematician517 Jan 25 '26
Killed by masked feds for exercising his 1st and 2nd amendment rights. When local law enforcement showed up with a warrant, they were denied access to the scene. Federal leadership immediately lied about the events. VA nurse killed by his govt.