Megyn Kelly says she ‘doesn’t feel sorry’ for Alex Pretty because he was ‘resisting arrest’ like George Floyd.

Megyn Kelly He began the latest episode of his podcast by declaring that he “doesn’t feel sorry”. Alex Prettywho was shot by Border Patrol agents over the weekend, even using the clip on social media to promote the show.

Pretty, a 37-year-old ICU nurse who worked at the VA, was shot and killed by Border Patrol agents on Saturday. Soon after, several Trump administration officials called Pretty a “domestic terrorist” and accused him of “brandishing” his weapon and trying to “kill” or “massacre” federal agents.

Video evidence taken by multiple viewers, reviewed in frame-by-frame detail by multiple media outlets, contradicted these claims. At the time of the incident, Preeti was only holding her cell phone, she had a permit to carry her gun, and she did not pull out the gun. One agent found Pretty in his holster while several agents were holding him, and another agent removed the gun before shooting Pretty in the back.

However, Kelly presented his own slant on the incident, an interpretation that was notably different. The The New York Times, The Washington Postand The Wall Street Journalamong many others.

He began his comments by accusing Pretty of being “subversive” and claiming he was part of a group of “organized agitators”:

On Saturday, a 37-year-old man, Alex Pretty, was shot by border patrol agents, after a confrontation there. Alex Pretty was being subversive there. He was there trying to interfere with traffic, trying to direct traffic to the ICE operation, watching this.

He wasn’t there to help. He wasn’t there to assist law enforcement or make things easier for them. He was out there with a loaded gun trying to cause trouble for border patrol agents and that trouble backfired on him.

We’ll get into the details and frame-by-frame and all that in a minute, but I just want to say, like, I’m not personally — I’m, I’m so sick of this bullish*t — I’m, like, these organized protesters who train to disrupt and, in some cases, hurt law enforcement.

They are out there looking for confrontations that they can make viral on their social media or that they can use to propagandize people against the good guys, who are trying to free us from the scourge of child-exploitation outlaws. That’s what they want to do. They want to portray themselves as great and terrible to ICE or Border Patrol agents and get some kind of confrontation on camera or something that makes them look stupid or bad or cruel.

And then when things get really bad and cruel and dangerous, and so on Renee good And now it’s Alex Pretty, all the rest of their enablers rushing to social media and the cameras to say, “You saw it, we told you so.”

No, no. Even if I, Megyn Kelly, went to disrupt law enforcement, to make a lawful arrest and conduct law enforcement actions – with a loaded gun in the back of my pants and then I engaged in a physical confrontation with them – physical, where I’m shaking and they’re shaking – I would be in grave danger. grave danger. Yes, a gun is certainly going to raise a reasonable fear for the police officer’s own safety, but even without a gun in this scenario, I would be in grave danger because resisting arrest could lead to much worse things.

“And just ask George Floyd“Kelly continued. “Like, you don’t do it, bad things can happen – resisting arrest. You don’t resist the cops in the middle of the street on a law enforcement operation and then when they get their hands on you trying to put you under arrest, you submit! That’s what happened. submit.”

Kelly appears to have borrowed a page from his former Fox News colleague’s playbook Tucker Carlson Former Minneapolis police officer’s wildly corrupt misrepresentation of the facts surrounding Floyd’s knee-jerk death Derek ChauvinJoe is currently serving 22.5 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of Floyd’s murder.

On May 25, 2020, police body cameras and bystander cell phones recorded Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds, including 3 minutes and 51 seconds during which Floyd was unresponsive. (That 9:29 mark of 8 minutes and 46 seconds found in the original criminal complaint filed against Chauvin was redacted).

That cellphone video of Floyd went viral, showing him handcuffed and pinned dead, with Chauvin kneeling on his mother’s neck, repeatedly telling Chauvin that he can’t breathe, is unconscious, and has lost his wrists — which Chauvin repeatedly ignores and ignores. Offer to provide medical aid from off-duty firefighters and then EMTs who arrive on scene.

One hopes that Kelly doesn’t argue that he failed to “submit” Floyd when he was unconscious and four police officers pushed him face down on the asphalt, his wrists getting weaker and weaker and finally disappearing.

Continuing Kelly, she told her children that “if you get pulled over by the police or find yourself interacting with the police, you explain” and “if they’re a prick, a racist, a bully, a boss, if they’re wrong, if they don’t really have the right person, we’ll deal with it later, because we don’t deal with a lot of criminals.” which is fatal for them” and “we should be more careful about not protesting.”

With the Minnesota situation, Kelly argued, “There’s really a huge, ironic, responsibility on those protesters — they’re terrorists in my opinion — to behave better than anybody else and to submit immediately, because they’re putting these people on a razor’s edge.”

“Like, I know I want to feel sorry for Alex Pretty, but I don’t! I don’t,” Kelly said. “Do you know why the Border Patrol didn’t shoot me this weekend? Because I put my ass in and out of their operation. It’s that simple.”

“If I feel strongly about something done by the government, I will go out and protest, or I will sit on the sidewalk peacefully without interfering with my body, by whistling, shouting, by any other means,” she added. “I’m going to stand there and express my objection because interference is going south. And it’s a crime for a police officer or a border patrol officer or an ICE officer to lay hands on someone trying to enforce law and now you’re going to be arrested and if you do anything like resist, you’re in serious trouble. That doesn’t give them the right to shoot. If they do, they can be found in reasonable fear for their safety.”

Kelly’s show used a clip of her saying Pretty didn’t hurt her to promote the episode on social media.

Despite Kelly’s repeated references to Pretty as “resisting arrest” or “handling” law enforcement, that’s not what actually happened.

Rob DoerrA criminal defense attorney who serves as general counsel for the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, a pro-gun rights group, posted a lengthy tweet detailing case law across the United States that clearly holds that movements made from a “safety posture” and “survival instinct” do not constitute “resisting arrest.”

“Poor or disorganized officer tactics that create instability, pain, or involuntary movement during restraints do not translate self-protective responses into resistance,” Doerr added. “Resistance requires deliberate voluntary resistance, not motion induced by the officers’ own use of force.”

Furthermore, as reported by several media outlets that reviewed the videos, the first contact with Pretty was initiated by the agents, and at that moment, he was helping the woman who had fallen to the ground and was pepper sprayed by the agents, as described. The New York Times In its analysis:

A small group of protesters stand in the street, talking to a federal agent as whistles blow. Mr Pretty is seen filming the scene on his phone and directing traffic.

An agent starts pushing the protesters, and throws pepper spray in their faces.

At this moment, both of Mr. Pretty’s hands are clearly visible. One is holding his phone, while he holds the other to protect himself from the pepper spray. He moves to help one of the sprayed protesters when other agents come and pull him from behind.

It was reported that Pretty was holding a phone, not a gun, before agents took him to the ground and shot him. the timeAdding that the agents disarmed him and held him “with the weapon next to his head” before firing the first shot.

Several eyewitnesses to the shooting, including a medic who tried to help Pretty, also submitted affidavits saying “they did not see it. [Pretti] reach for or grab a gun,” “He did not attack the agents or see any sign of a weapon,” “He did not touch any. [the agents] – He did not turn to them, and was “only trying to help the woman.”

“I don’t know why they shot him. He was just helping,” one woman wrote in her affidavit. “I was five feet away from him and they shot him.”

It was further reported on Monday that the Department of Homeland Security has bodycam video footage of agents shooting Preeti. It hasn’t been made public yet, but given how quickly the Trump administration commented on attacking Pretty and posted a photo of Pretty’s legally carrying gun, it stands to reason that if this bodycam video had provided any kind of incriminating evidence to justify the shooting, it would have been released already.

Kelly wants her audience to believe that she knows better than the woman who was “five feet” away during the shooting in Minneapolis last Saturday, a ridiculous claim. We could spend hours going line-by-line through Kelly’s podcast clips and social media posts, debunking most of his comments as baseless nonsense, misrepresentations, misrepresentations, or just outright lies — but the fundamental sin of his comments is that they reveal betrayal and abandonment of key constitutional principles.

Kelly, who is both a lawyer and a journalist, must understand and value the protections guaranteed by the First Amendment. Pretty had the right to be there, record the events on his cell phone, and help a woman off the ground is not a crime. He also had the legal right to keep and keep his firearm; Second Amendment boundaries are not dissolved simply because a border patrol agent or other law enforcement officer is present.

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