"The masks may work less to protect federal agents from danger than to to make it easier for them to do unspeakable things."
#Trump #StephenMiller #RaymundoGutierrez #JesusOchoa #CBP #ICE #MaskedThugs #violence #AlexPretti #murder #execution #immigrants
/9
"Alex Pretti had courage and all the things the myths and tales say men should aspire to. He had them because of his empathy, because of his ethic of care. His executioners had the performance of masculinity, the kind won by meting out violence and terrorising communities."
~ Alexander Hurst
#Trump #ICE #CBP #JesusOchoa #RaymundoGutierrez #AlexPretti #murder #execution #masculinity
/10
"On a street in Minneapolis, two versions of masculinity clashed. One anchored in fear, the other in care."
#Trump #ICE #CBP #JesusOchoa #RaymundoGutierrez #AlexPretti #murder #execution #masculinity
/11
"The masks may work less to protect federal agents from danger than to to make it easier for them to do unspeakable things."
#Trump #StephenMiller #RaymundoGutierrez #JesusOchoa #CBP #ICE #MaskedThugs #violence #AlexPretti #murder #execution #immigrants
/9
"Alex Pretti had courage and all the things the myths and tales say men should aspire to. He had them because of his empathy, because of his ethic of care. His executioners had the performance of masculinity, the kind won by meting out violence and terrorising communities."
~ Alexander Hurst
#Trump #ICE #CBP #JesusOchoa #RaymundoGutierrez #AlexPretti #murder #execution #masculinity
/10
"When you are asking men to essentially make war on their fellow citizens—to force lightly dressed people out into the frigid Minneapolis winter, detain elementary schoolers, follow good Samaritans as they deliver food to hiding families, and drag, tackle, beat, tase, or even shoot American citizens—you may find telling them that they can keep their identity hidden useful."
#Trump #CBP #ICE #MaskedThugs #violence #AlexPretti #murder #execution #immigrants
/8
"The masks may work less to protect federal agents from danger than to to make it easier for them to do unspeakable things."
#Trump #StephenMiller #RaymundoGutierrez #JesusOchoa #CBP #ICE #MaskedThugs #violence #AlexPretti #murder #execution #immigrants
/9
"ProPublica is publishing the names of the two federal immigration agents involved in the fatal shooting of Minnesota protester Alex Pretti. We believe there are few investigations that deserve more sunlight and public scrutiny than this one, in which two masked agents fired 10 shots at Pretti as he lay on the ground after being pepper-sprayed."
~ ProPublica
#Trump #StephenMiller #TomHoman #MikeJohnson #AlexPretti #JesusOchoa #RaymundoGutierrez #Latinos
/9
"Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, Mike Johnson — they’re not trying to keep their officers safe. As Phil Bump laid out the other day, that simply has not happened.
They’re trying to hide how much even their deeply racist project is helpless without brown labor."
#Trump #StephenMiller #TomHoman #MikeJohnson #AlexPretti #JesusOchoa #RaymundoGutierrez #WhiteSupremacy #Latinos
/8
"ProPublica is publishing the names of the two federal immigration agents involved in the fatal shooting of Minnesota protester Alex Pretti. We believe there are few investigations that deserve more sunlight and public scrutiny than this one, in which two masked agents fired 10 shots at Pretti as he lay on the ground after being pepper-sprayed."
~ ProPublica
#Trump #StephenMiller #TomHoman #MikeJohnson #AlexPretti #JesusOchoa #RaymundoGutierrez #Latinos
/9
As Fanon says, it is not uncommon for some members of oppressed minority communities to internalize the negative self-image imposed on them by their oppressors, and to turn against their own group to curry favor with their oppressors. This an old, sad dynamic, and not in the least surprising, given how recurrent it is.
#Trump #StephenMiller #AlexPretti #JesusOchoa #RaymundoGutierrez #WhiteSupremacy #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #Latinos
/5
"Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, Mike Johnson — they’re not trying to keep their officers safe. As Phil Bump laid out the other day, that simply has not happened.
They’re trying to hide how much even their deeply racist project is helpless without brown labor."
#Trump #StephenMiller #TomHoman #MikeJohnson #AlexPretti #JesusOchoa #RaymundoGutierrez #WhiteSupremacy #Latinos
/8
"There are a lot of reasons Stephen Miller’s goons wear masks. To terrify the communities they invade. To make it harder to shame them. To make it harder to tie them to other crimes they may have committed."
~ Marcy Wheeler
#Trump #StephenMiller #AlexPretti #JesusOchoa #RaymundoGutierrez #WhiteSupremacy #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #Latinos
/6
https://emptywheel.net/2026/02/02/stephen-miller-paid-latino-thugs-to-murder-alex-pretti/
"But there is accumulating evidence that a big reason these goons hide their faces is to hide that the white nationalist project Stephen Miller is pursuing — like virtually everything else in America — relies on brown people to do the hard work. Miller can only sustain the myth of white self-reliance by hiding the faces of those who murder white men at his behest in the streets of Blue cities."
#Trump #StephenMiller #AlexPretti #JesusOchoa #RaymundoGutierrez #WhiteSupremacy #Latinos
/7
"Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, Mike Johnson — they’re not trying to keep their officers safe. As Phil Bump laid out the other day, that simply has not happened.
They’re trying to hide how much even their deeply racist project is helpless without brown labor."
#Trump #StephenMiller #TomHoman #MikeJohnson #AlexPretti #JesusOchoa #RaymundoGutierrez #WhiteSupremacy #Latinos
/8
"There are a lot of reasons Stephen Miller’s goons wear masks. To terrify the communities they invade. To make it harder to shame them. To make it harder to tie them to other crimes they may have committed."
~ Marcy Wheeler
#Trump #StephenMiller #AlexPretti #JesusOchoa #RaymundoGutierrez #WhiteSupremacy #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #Latinos
/6
https://emptywheel.net/2026/02/02/stephen-miller-paid-latino-thugs-to-murder-alex-pretti/
"But there is accumulating evidence that a big reason these goons hide their faces is to hide that the white nationalist project Stephen Miller is pursuing — like virtually everything else in America — relies on brown people to do the hard work. Miller can only sustain the myth of white self-reliance by hiding the faces of those who murder white men at his behest in the streets of Blue cities."
#Trump #StephenMiller #AlexPretti #JesusOchoa #RaymundoGutierrez #WhiteSupremacy #Latinos
/7
As Fanon says, it is not uncommon for some members of oppressed minority communities to internalize the negative self-image imposed on them by their oppressors, and to turn against their own group to curry favor with their oppressors. This an old, sad dynamic, and not in the least surprising, given how recurrent it is.
#Trump #StephenMiller #AlexPretti #JesusOchoa #RaymundoGutierrez #WhiteSupremacy #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #Latinos
/5
"There are a lot of reasons Stephen Miller’s goons wear masks. To terrify the communities they invade. To make it harder to shame them. To make it harder to tie them to other crimes they may have committed."
~ Marcy Wheeler
#Trump #StephenMiller #AlexPretti #JesusOchoa #RaymundoGutierrez #WhiteSupremacy #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #Latinos
/6
https://emptywheel.net/2026/02/02/stephen-miller-paid-latino-thugs-to-murder-alex-pretti/
If a crab trapped with other crabs in a basket tries to claw its way out to freedom, they said, the other crabs will pull it back into the basket — doing the dirty work of the person who has trapped the crabs and intends to cook them.
Franz Fanon analyzes the dynamics in his magisterial book Wretched of the earth.
#Trump #StephenMiller #AlexPretti #JesusOchoa #RaymundoGutierrez #WhiteSupremacy #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #Latinos
/4
As Fanon says, it is not uncommon for some members of oppressed minority communities to internalize the negative self-image imposed on them by their oppressors, and to turn against their own group to curry favor with their oppressors. This an old, sad dynamic, and not in the least surprising, given how recurrent it is.
#Trump #StephenMiller #AlexPretti #JesusOchoa #RaymundoGutierrez #WhiteSupremacy #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #Latinos
/5
"But whiteness itself is confused and confusing. It’s not an existential truth; it’s a way to organize violence, hierarchy, and hate."
In the years I spent teaching in historically Black colleges and universities, my students spoke to me of what they called the crabs-in-the-basket syndrome.
#Trump #StephenMiller #AlexPretti #JesusOchoa #RaymundoGutierrez #WhiteSupremacy #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #Latinos
/3
If a crab trapped with other crabs in a basket tries to claw its way out to freedom, they said, the other crabs will pull it back into the basket — doing the dirty work of the person who has trapped the crabs and intends to cook them.
Franz Fanon analyzes the dynamics in his magisterial book Wretched of the earth.
#Trump #StephenMiller #AlexPretti #JesusOchoa #RaymundoGutierrez #WhiteSupremacy #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #Latinos
/4
Berlatsky writes,
"Ochoa and Garcia are only the latest in a long line of people who have pledged themselves to white supremacy without being white—or who have become white(r) in part by pledging themselves to white supremacy. ...
It may seem confused or confusing to say that two non-white men enforced white supremacy by murdering a white person."
#Trump #StephenMiller #AlexPretti #JesusOchoa #RaymundoGutierrez #WhiteSupremacy #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #Latinos
/2
"But whiteness itself is confused and confusing. It’s not an existential truth; it’s a way to organize violence, hierarchy, and hate."
In the years I spent teaching in historically Black colleges and universities, my students spoke to me of what they called the crabs-in-the-basket syndrome.
#Trump #StephenMiller #AlexPretti #JesusOchoa #RaymundoGutierrez #WhiteSupremacy #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #Latinos
/3
Noah Berlatsky notes that the federal agents who shot Alex Pretti have now been identified as Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez, and that right-wing memes are being produced now to claim that Trump's and Stephen Miller's ethnic cleansing agenda cannot be about white supremacy if Latinos participate in it.
#Trump #StephenMiller #AlexPretti #JesusOchoa #RaymundoGutierrez #WhiteSupremacy #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #Latinos
/1
https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/not-all-white-supremacists-are-white
Berlatsky writes,
"Ochoa and Garcia are only the latest in a long line of people who have pledged themselves to white supremacy without being white—or who have become white(r) in part by pledging themselves to white supremacy. ...
It may seem confused or confusing to say that two non-white men enforced white supremacy by murdering a white person."
#Trump #StephenMiller #AlexPretti #JesusOchoa #RaymundoGutierrez #WhiteSupremacy #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #Latinos
/2
Noah Berlatsky notes that the federal agents who shot Alex Pretti have now been identified as Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez, and that right-wing memes are being produced now to claim that Trump's and Stephen Miller's ethnic cleansing agenda cannot be about white supremacy if Latinos participate in it.
#Trump #StephenMiller #AlexPretti #JesusOchoa #RaymundoGutierrez #WhiteSupremacy #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #Latinos
/1
https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/not-all-white-supremacists-are-white
Hot off the presses, the ICE agents who murdered Alex Pretti have been identified as Jesus Ochoa and officer Raymundo Gutierrez. Both are cops with the CBP (customs & border patrol) and according to ProPublica have been named in government documents.
Don Lemon is out and says he'll be right back to journalism as usuall after his unwarranted arrest for his on the ground coverage of ICE Minneapolis.
📸 Don Lemon
Hot off the presses, the ICE agents who murdered Alex Pretti have been identified as Jesus Ochoa and officer Raymundo Gutierrez. Both are cops with the CBP (customs & border patrol) and according to ProPublica have been named in government documents.
