Anonymous Power: The State's Unseen Killers in Minneapolis
📰 THE STORY: The Intercept reports that even the top prosecutor in Hennepin County, Mary Moriarty, cannot identify the federal agents who killed Alex Pretti during an ICE operation, revealing a Kafkaesque system where accountability evaporates once federal badges are involved. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: This isn't an anomaly. In 1992, during the Ruby Ridge standoff, FBI
agents shot and killed Randy Weaver's wife, Vicky, while she held their infant, and their 14-year-old son, Samuel. The agents involved initially faced minimal accountability, and the incident became a symbol of federal overreach and hidden identities in justified killings. Similarly, the 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald by Chicago police took over a year for footage to be released and charges
filed, underscoring systemic efforts to conceal identities and facts in law enforcement fatalities. Double Standard: Imagine a foreign government's national police force operating within U.S. borders, killing a citizen, and that nation's top prosecutor then claiming they couldn't identify the agents responsible. This would be decried as a tyrannical state, a rogue nation. Yet, when U.S. federal
agencies like ICE or Border Patrol operate with such impunity on American soil, the mainstream media frames it as an unfortunate bureaucratic snag, rather than a fundamental assault on legal due process and transparency. The narrative becomes about 'jurisdiction' and 'inter-agency cooperation,' instead of state-sanctioned anonymity and violence. Follow the Money: The budget for ICE alone was $8.7