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Former U.S. president and first lady Barack and Michelle Obama released a searing statement on Sunday, in response to the second shooting death by immigration law enforcement officers in Minneapolis, saying federal officers appear to be using tactics "designed to intimidate, harass, provoke and endanger" Minnesota residents.

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The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

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-- Barack Obama (@barackobama.bsky.social) Jan 25, 2026 at 12:39 PM

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"Rather than trying to impose some semblance of discipline and accountability over the agents they've deployed, the President and current administration officials seem eager to escalate the situation, while offering public explanations for the shootings of Mr. [Alex] Pretti and Renee Good that aren't informed by any serious investigation " and that appear to be directly contradicted by video evidence," the Obamas wrote.

They called on "every American" to support and draw inspiration from the wave of peaceful protests in Minneapolis and other U.S. cities.

"They are a timely reminder that ultimately it's up to each of us as citizens to speak out against injustice, protect our basic freedoms, and hold our government accountable," Obamas said."

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-25 05:38 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

PEDO DONNIE RAPED LITTLE GIRLS

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-26 12:15 AM | Reply

Dummkopf Trumpf had revoked Joe Biden's security clearances, citing what he described as Biden's "poor memory," so he no longer receives the PDB given to all former POTUS as a courtesy. (UPI, 8 Feb 2025).

Trumpf did not take away Barack Obama's security clearances, so he still receives a daily PDB.

But the vindicative Dotard-in-Chief may revoke Obama's security clearance as punishment for speaking out, thus depriving him of the PDB.

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-26 05:25 AM | Reply

#3

Free Speech isn't free in Trumplandia.

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-26 10:12 AM | Reply

It's part of the plan for Trump to escalate violence. He's already signaling what he expects to get from it: specific political concessions from Minnesota.

Even if there were no plan, as Paul Krugman correctly points out, Trump won't back down from recent and future murders because his insane pride is at stake and he fears humiliation.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-26 10:49 AM | Reply

But the vindicative Dotard-in-Chief may revoke Obama's security clearance as punishment for speaking out, thus depriving him of the PDB.

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS

There is a List, and Obama's name is on it.

The goal is his arrest and imprisonmen.

#6 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-26 10:51 AM | Reply

"Imprisonment".

Obama knows he's on that List, as do Biden and the Clintons.

#7 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-26 10:52 AM | Reply

He's no more eager to escalate than all of the people coming out to "peacefully" protest.

Liberals can't see the forest for the trees. But, all both sides see is their ideology and are incapable of seeing anything else. The truth is this, regardless of how much you want to try to infect the situation with your own ideological bs.

Cons see illegals causing problems. A small portion of them are raping, murdering, abusing their time in the US, etc. Cons do not support this, liberals do. So then cons exaggerate the problem so they can send ICE. So then ICE comes in, makes people mad because they don't agree they should be there, so they start protesting. As is typical with protests, a small portion of protestors become problems and start getting violent or otherwise not peaceful with ICE, causing ICE to have to respond with violence. Liberals do not support this, cons do. This is the stupid cycle we are stuck in. All because a small portion on both sides think their ideology is better than anyone else's and feel they should take action in a way that is NOT becoming of our Constitution or any civilized society.

Just like with the LA riots and liberals claiming there aren't any riots and Trump is exaggerating, the actual problems in MN are nowhere near the levels of exaggeration libs are claiming. In the end, all that is happening is that libs accept the tiny fraction of crimes that illegals do and cons accept the tiny fraction of crimes ICE is doing. So both ideologies are fighting the exact same thing, the only difference is who is carrying out the crimes. Either Americans become victims of illegals or they become victims of ICE.

Again, you can ignore that all you want but that's the reality we are in. Like I've been saying for years, NEITHER side is fighting to fix problems. All they are doing is fighting to ensure their acceptance of the negatives of their ideology can exist without the other side's nonacceptance of the negatives. Both sides just completely ignore the negatives. Where is the lib outrage when an illegal murders, rapes, etc. an American (it IS happening and denying it at this point is just ignoring reality)? And, where is the con outrage when an American authority murders, beats, etc. a person who did nothing to warrant it (it is happening and denying it at this point is just ignoring reality)?

I'm so sick of both sides and their hypocrisy and fabricated, ideological outrage. There is one solution to this problem that fixes both issues, and that is to continue to try to stop illegal immigration as much as possible. If there were no illegals, ICE wouldn't be in MN. If ICE weren't there, protestors wouldn't be getting impacted like this.

The other part of this broken record is how libs absolutely, beyond any evidence thrown at them REFUSE vehemently like their lives depended on it that the protestors are all perfect little angels who do no wrong. And, since libs like history so much about how America is systemically racist, then they also have to accept the reality that shows when people group up in masses to fight against something, "peaceful" is hardly the word that can be used. After 250 years of history, protests en masse are anything but peaceful in America.

#8 | Posted by humtake at 2026-01-26 11:24 AM | Reply

HumTrig supports nurses getting 10 bullets in the back.

#9 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-01-26 11:27 AM | Reply

I'm so sick of both sides and their hypocrisy

#8 | Posted by humtake

You have a side, HUMTAKE

#10 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-26 11:45 AM | Reply

- both sides

Don't lie about immigrant crime rates to stir up the base and justify street executions.

#11 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-26 11:45 AM | Reply

If there were no illegals, ICE wouldn't be in MN.

#8 | Posted by humtake

There'd be some other fascist paramilitary.

Your president is a dictator, HUMTAKE.

#12 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-26 11:46 AM | Reply

#10 And it is, of course, the wrong side.

#13 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-26 11:47 AM | Reply

After 250 years of history, protests en masse are anything but peaceful in America.

#8 | Posted by humtake

The protests in Minnesota have been preternaturally peaceful. I am in awe.

There's something wrong with you, HUMTAKE.

Let me know if you want it explained to you.

#14 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-26 11:49 AM | Reply

How was BHO able to deport so many with no totally organic protesters obstructing?

#15 | Posted by john_savage1 at 2026-01-26 02:53 PM | Reply

Let's hear from FJB as well: What did you think was going to happen when your EO'd TPS expired as designed?

#16 | Posted by john_savage1 at 2026-01-26 02:55 PM | Reply

How was BHO able to deport so many with no totally organic protesters obstructing?

#15 | POSTED BY JOHN_SAVAGE1

Great Question!

Im gonna bet it was because he followed the Law and did not support and allow ICE to shoot American citizens and residents.

#17 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-01-26 02:59 PM | Reply

Daddyfist is hoping Bovino and Miller make him airtight.

#18 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-01-26 02:59 PM | Reply

FRONTLINE investigated complaints of abuse and harsh treatment as detentions and deportations of undocumented immigrants reached record levels during former President Barack Obama's first term. (Aired Oct. 18, 2011)

This journalism is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station here: www.pbs.org.

By the time this documentary premiered, more than one million immigrants had been deported under the Obama administration and critics charged that families were unfairly separated after being caught in a nationwide dragnet. Correspondent Maria Hinojosa investigated President Obama's enforcement strategies and journeyed into the secretive world of immigrant detention, with a penetrating look at who was being detained and what was happening to them.

www.youtube.com

#19 | Posted by john_savage1 at 2026-01-26 03:07 PM | Reply

Obligatory.

bsky.app

#20 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-01-26 03:08 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

A CNN segment covering an Immigration & Customs Enforcement Operation (ICE) during the Obama administration has been uncovered.

The segment, which aired on May 31, 2016, painted the immigration agency and its officers in a positive light.

Social media users who uncovered the segment claimed the network provided fairer coverage of ICE during the Obama era than that of US President Donald Trump's.

The segment, named 'A day with ICE in the 'Sanctuary City' of Chicago', featured reporter Pamela Brown tagging along with agents during an operation in Chicago.

Social media users posted the resurfaced CNN segment, with many noting how the network's tone on ICE changes between the Obama and Trump administrations.

www.youtube.com

#21 | Posted by john_savage1 at 2026-01-26 03:11 PM | Reply

noting how the network's tone on ICE changes between the Obama and Trump administrations.

Obama used Due Process. Trump doesn't. There's your "tone change" bozo.

#22 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-26 03:12 PM | Reply

JOHN SAVAGE---I don't know, that name just sounds gay to me.

#23 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-26 03:13 PM | Reply

Pedo 47's greatest hits.

www.propublica.org

#24 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-01-26 03:14 PM | Reply

The President Speaks on Fixing America's Broken Immigration System
The Obama White House

www.youtube.com

Turn on CC;transcript is 404'd by WH

#25 | Posted by john_savage1 at 2026-01-26 03:17 PM | Reply

Report Shows Poor Medical Care Led to Deaths at U.S. ...
National Immigrant Justice Center
https://immigrantjustice.org press-release report-show...
Feb 24, 2016 " ... deaths of eight people in detention centers across the country. During the Obama administration, 56 individuals have died while in ICE custody.

During the Obama administration, 56 individuals have died while in ICE custody.

#26 | Posted by john_savage1 at 2026-01-26 03:18 PM | Reply

Trump would love nothing more than for a brown or black person, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, to attack and kill a member of ICE.

So he can declare martial law, unleash the military on American cities and postpone the November election.

No one more thoroughly hates America than Trump and his Deplorable MAGA supporters.

#27 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-01-26 03:19 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Perhaps ICE's homicidal rage at the Americans who film them represents this same refusal to countenance being seen, being witnessed, being documented doing what they are doing to innocent people," Donegan wrote. "In that sense, perhaps their actions towards observers like Good and Pretti exhibit a sense of shame. Some, like Tom Nolan, a former Boston police commander and criminology professor who once advised the DHS on civil rights issues, are calling Pretti's death at ICE's hands a stone cold murder. You could also call it the elimination of a witness."

www.theguardian.com

This is what daddysfist supports.

#28 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-01-26 03:20 PM | Reply

Trump would love nothing more than for a brown or black person, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, to attack and kill a member of ICE.
So he can declare martial law, unleash the military on American cities and postpone the November election.
No one more thoroughly hates America than Trump and his Deplorable MAGA supporters.

#27 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-01-26 03:19 PM | Reply | Flag

NW flag.

#29 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-26 03:21 PM | Reply

Obligatory.
bsky.app

#20 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-01-26 03:08 PM | Reply | Flag: Yup.

Like POTUS Jimmy Carter on 20 Jan 1977 immediately pardoning Vietnam War draft evaders and ordering a review of all court-martial cases related to that hideous war, the next non-Republican POTUS must immediately abolish DHS and ICE on 20 Jan 1929.

The document will have been readied by his/her transition staff in Nov 2028.

After the traditional post-Inauguration Luncheon at the White House, POTUS can sign it at the Resolute Desk circa 1530 hours and by 1600 hours the Executive Order abolishing DHS and ICE will be posted in the Federal Register.

#30 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-26 03:22 PM | Reply

*squints against the flak*

The Border Patrol Was Monstrous Under Obama. Imagine ...
American Civil Liberties Union
https://www.aclu.org news immigrants-rights borde...
May 23, 2018 " A pattern of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse by Customs and Border Protection officials against child immigrants that existed long before President Trump ...

We have received more than 30,000 pages of internal government documents detailing this abuse between 2009 and 2014 throughout the southern border region. These records, obtained through an ACLU Freedom of Information Act request and subsequent litigation, offer a glimpse into an immigration enforcement system that had been plagued by brutality and lawlessness long before Trump was elected.

www.aclu.org

Source problem?

#31 | Posted by john_savage1 at 2026-01-26 03:25 PM | Reply

If you're trying to convince me ICE needs to go...you've won.

#32 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-26 03:26 PM | Reply

2025 was ICE's deadliest year in two decades. Here are the 32 people who died in custody

www.theguardian.com

The orange child rapist in on a heater.

#33 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-01-26 03:26 PM | Reply

#28

Let's make a deal: I'll speak for myself, and you speak for yourself. Fair enough?

#34 | Posted by john_savage1 at 2026-01-26 03:26 PM | Reply

Daddysfist, you PWZ losers sucked so bad your entire site got plonked. Lol

#35 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-01-26 03:29 PM | Reply

JOHN SAVAGE---I don't know, that name just sounds gay to me.

#23 | Posted by Zed

Come to think of it- it sure does! It was coind by a Brit, though, so makes sense it should sound at least bi-curious...

www.sparknotes.com
John becomes the central character of the novel because, rejected both by the "savage" Indian culture and the "civilized" World State culture, he is the ultimate outsider.

#36 | Posted by john_savage1 at 2026-01-26 04:02 PM | Reply

Zed was hoping for a date.

#37 | Posted by fortfisher at 2026-01-26 05:25 PM | Reply

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