Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez are both officers with Customs and Border Protection, ProPublica reports

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42530526

Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez are both officers with Customs and Border Protection, ProPublica reports

Government documents have identified the two federal officers who fatally shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis as Jesus Ochoa, a border patrol agent, and Raymundo Gutierrez, an officer with Customs and Border Protection (CBP), according to ProPublica.

According to those records, Ochoa, 43, and Gutierrez, 35, were the agents who fired their weapons during the confrontation last weekend that resulted in Pretti’s death.

The shooting sparked widespread demonstrations and renewed demands for criminal inquiries into federal immigration enforcement actions. Immediately following Pretti’s killing, the Trump administration repeatedly pushed false claims about the shooting.

  • wheezy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    123·
    3 days ago

    If you haven’t been paying attention to the white Hispanic Nazis over the last decade I can see how this would surprise you.

    Nick Fuentes is the voice of the American Nazi movement.

    If it’s not clear I’ll spell it out. Fascism has never been a movement based purely on racial lines. Fascism is and always has been a method of defense and oppression used by the capitalist class to maintain power over the working class. Racism and bigotry are only as meaningful as they can be used to maintain the current structures of power.

    So, yes, people with Mexican sounding names will be recruited to as soldiers of the fascist state. Some may even lead it.

    You need to dissolve your ideas of liberal identity based politics and start thinking in terms of class struggle. If you can, you’ll be much better prepared and able to understand what will unfold over the next decade of our lives.

    • BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world
      71·
      2 days ago

      If you haven’t been paying attention to the white Hispanic Nazis over the last decade

      Yeah, no. Not something I really follow.

      • wheezy@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        This was the leader of the proud boys during the January 6th insurrection.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique_Tarrio

        There are also lot of Latino origin people that are literally just white by all means. It kind of just goes to show that being “white” is not really a real thing. It’s just a word that has always been used to describe the in-group. Irish were not white, Italians were not white, hell, you go back far enough and you got writings from Thomas Jefferson describing Germans as non white.

        I think the average “white” American doesn’t actually understand what that term even means or how it’s been used historically.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      If you haven’t been paying attention to the white Hispanic Nazis over the last decade I can see how this would surprise you.

      Nick Fuentes is the voice of the American Nazi movement.

      Enrique Tarrio quotes “White Pride”. I blame Barbie and Ken dolls.