More to follow soon on Ruby Ridge parallels with Saturday’s killing by the feds

Minnesota TV station analysis suggests Alex Pretti had been disarmed before the feds fired 10+ shots at him. Hopefully @DHSgov does not block evidence either way https://t.co/TyqX5Zbjfu
— James Bovard (@JimBovard) January 25, 2026
Why is @DHSgov blocking the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension from investigating the latest federal killing in Minneapolis? https://t.co/6ggIS3O1Cz
— James Bovard (@JimBovard) January 24, 2026
Feds in Minneapolis killed a guy (who was legally carrying a pistol) who was videotaping them. Ongoing lawsuit says Trump admin. is "treating video recording of DHS agents in public as a threat that may be responded to with force and addressed as a crime.”…
— James Bovard (@JimBovard) January 24, 2026
"Footage from the scene shows the man was holding a phone in his hand, not a gun, when federal agents took him to the ground and shot him." https://t.co/ErjfYZCeuG pic.twitter.com/1yfOqXon6b
— James Bovard (@JimBovard) January 24, 2026
How many of the Trump supporters cheering the killing of the Minneapolis demonstrator today would also cheer for the FBI sniper killing Vicki Weaver in her cabin door at Ruby Ridge in 1992? https://t.co/SLHgCnVNX9
— James Bovard (@JimBovard) January 24, 2026
In 1992, the FBI Rules of Engagement entitled FBI snipers to preemptively kill any adult they saw with a firearm. What rules is ICE following now in Minnesota? https://t.co/nfifAHI2SX
— James Bovard (@JimBovard) January 24, 2026
If @DHSgov has nothing to hide, why are they blocking Minnesota officials with a search warrant from examining the scene where federal agents killed a man today? https://t.co/61EKYLtFqI
— James Bovard (@JimBovard) January 24, 2026
Are Feds entitled to total secrecy on their killings of American citizens? "Federal officials have refused to disclose the identities of federal agents involved in Saturday’s shooting… " @nytimes
— James Bovard (@JimBovard) January 24, 2026
Why is @DHSgov blocking the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension from investigating the latest federal killing in Minneapolis? https://t.co/6ggIS3O1Cz
— James Bovard (@JimBovard) January 24, 2026
Feds in Minneapolis killed a guy (who was legally carrying a pistol) who was videotaping them. Ongoing lawsuit says Trump admin. is "treating video recording of DHS agents in public as a threat that may be responded to with force and addressed as a crime.”…
— James Bovard (@JimBovard) January 24, 2026

Another Ruby Ridge parallel with the DHS killing of Alex Pretti: Vicki Weaver had a .380 pistol on her side under her sweater when the FBI sniper blew her head off as she was holding her baby. Neither she nor Pretti was brandishing https://t.co/SLHgCnVNX9
— James Bovard (@JimBovard) January 25, 2026
Here is the Senate testimony of Randy Weaver: She had a .380 semi-automatic pistol that was right down here on her side, under her sweater, which I did not even know she had it on until after I had brought her into the cabin. But she was used to packing a gun."…
— James Bovard (@JimBovard) January 25, 2026
Rep. James Comer, chairman of House Oversight Committee, today suggested that Trump pull ICE agents out of Minnesota. This is the most prominent congressional Republican yet to recoil from Minnesota debacle pic.twitter.com/C9axckyr9P
— James Bovard (@JimBovard) January 25, 2026
Trump's Border Patrol boss Bovino says G-men were the real victims of the killing of Alex Pretti – “The victims are the border patrol agents there,” he said. https://t.co/QaB6n18pkF
— James Bovard (@JimBovard) January 25, 2026
Can you explain why federal agents violently attacked Alex Pretti before shooting him? https://t.co/l6MwGNvExY
— James Bovard (@JimBovard) January 25, 2026
"Destroying, Suppressing Evidence is FBI Standard Procedure" Another Ruby Ridge parallel to the federal killing of Alex Pretti? FBI got caught destroying huge amounts of evidence on Randy Weaver case. I wrote about that 8 years ago for @thehill https://t.co/ElwtlG3SHE
— James Bovard (@JimBovard) January 25, 2026
Federal indictment of Randy Weaver claimed he had moved from Iowa to northern Idaho as part of his scheme to have a conflict with the feds. That wacky argument helped the feds lose in Idaho court after killing Vicki and Sammy Weaver https://t.co/BxjLg5EAht
— James Bovard (@JimBovard) January 25, 2026
Do you automatically hate anyone that federal agents kill – as long as a Republican is president? https://t.co/OqcRgxlByd
— James Bovard (@JimBovard) January 25, 2026
In both cases, federal agencies claimed a right to preemptively kill their targets and then cover up the killings. https://t.co/2wdey6jGyT
— James Bovard (@JimBovard) January 25, 2026
FBI justified killing Vicki Weaver at Ruby Ridge by lying & saying she was shooting at a helicopter. Did Bovino lie about why the feds killed Alex Pretti? https://t.co/lyki3aPA9t
— James Bovard (@JimBovard) January 25, 2026

It’s not a very complicated question. The answer is: Because that’s who they are.
ICE/Border Patrol are violent street gangs, and violent street gangs are known to sometimes murder people.
You go to a protest and pull a gun on the Feds, you end yourself. The video is crystal clear, he pulled a weapon. Stupi is as stupid does. You new confedarates best learn the rules.
If your wishes on that video were true, then maybe Kristi Noem would not be destined to more pratfalls in her interviews today and beyonkd.
When I go to a conflicted area that may involve kinetic violence, I always scrub my social media accounts and take no identification including the photo ID and Permit To Carry that Minnesota law requires an individual to possess to be legally armed.
I also don’t have an organization behind me that can look up license plates, hand off surveillance to multiple vehicles and access cell phone number to lead threatening texts as alleged by James O’Keefe.
https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/2015260124932448533
To each their own, I guess. I’ll stay in the -20° swamp and avoid both jack-booted thugs and The American Stasi tody.
There is NO parallel to this and Ruby Ridge. None.
This clown is there aiding and abetting criminals/invaders; he is guilty of treason quite frankly. ZFG quite frankly.
[and ‘texas dan’ – your ignorance is appalling. You know nothing of Confederates or the Confederacy. Obviously a transplant into Texas]
Equating this idiot with Vicki Weaver is one of the most disingenuously stupid things I have ever read.
Your boy goes looking for a confrontation with the Feds, who I have no love for, and received same. His own parents told him not to get into a confrontation and they would know his mindset when they advised him.
He did this to protect Somalis and other illegals who cause an untold amount of crime and violence in this country. Perhaps you don’t mind the theft of our hard earned money by Somalis or the American victims of crime but many of us most certainly do.
The only thing he accomplished other than getting unalived is to give the Feds more reasons to bring in a police state and bring us closer to the upcoming war in this country.
Here’s the New York Post video I did in August 2024 on the Somali Feeding Our Future fraud scandal in Minneapolis. https://nypost.com/video/in-minnesotas-250m-fraud-scandal-walz-bowed-to-race-hustling-scammers/
There is no equivalence between what happened on Ruby Ridge and what happened here. None, zero,
and to frame this in a manner that suggests otherwise is truly pathetic left wing leg humping on your part.
I won’t go into all the reasons these two incidents are diametrically opposed, anyone who is above the
average Somali IQ knows this so I won’t rehash it here for you. You are wrong, JImmy. Own it.
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