The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

The records viewed by ProPublica list Ochoa, 43, and Gutierrez, 35, as the shooters during the deadly encounter last weekend that left Pretti dead and ignited massive protests and calls for criminal investigations.

Both men were assigned to Operation Metro Surge, an immigration enforcement dragnet launched in December that sent scores of armed and masked agents across the city.

CBP, which employs both men, has so far refused to release their names and has disclosed few other facts about the deadly incident, which came days after a different immigration agent shot and killed another Minneapolis protester, a 37-year-old mother of three named Renee Good.

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    Sooooo… 2 Hispanic men working for ICE killed a Caucasian man protesting the deportation of Hispanic people??? What kind of bazzarro world are we suffering through?

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      I’ve been saying this for decades. We live in the dumbest timeline. We live in a timeline where during covid they shut down the gyms. In response to this, hundreds of people showed up outside the locked gym doors and protested the closure saying they need to workout everyday. They did this by doing pushups, and full cardio classes as a group on the sidewalk. When the governor pointed out that they don’t need the gym to workout, and that they’re working out right now, the big guy who had been talking to cameras got pissed off and started aggressively doing pullups on a small tree that was planted in the treelawn. The tree didn’t support his weight, and he fell on his ass. Then he blamed the governor for that.

      We live in a timeline where a couple kids ate tidepods. That in itself was not a story. But the media reported it as if it was a new epidemic among teenagers. They said it causes permanent damage to your digestive tract, and can be lethal. Which in itself MADE it an epidemic among teenagers, and NOW thousands of them started eating tidepods because of the media stories.

      We live in a timeline where roughly half the country cares what genitals you have, which bathroom you use, and what pronouns you carry. As if a penis leaking pee is a different substance than a vagina leaking pee. As if ANY of this shit matters.

      We live in a timeline where white people for nearly a century had segregated EVERYTHING. As if a black person drinking from the same water fountain as a white person was in any way different than two white people drinking from the same fountain.

      We live in a timeline where we arrested Paul Rubins for going to a solo porn theater, which is designed specifically for masturbation, and he gets arrested for masturbation.

      We live in a timeline where in 1996 McDonalds released a burger in Cleveland, which was 6 quarter pounder patties, layered between 8 slices of cheese. I can’t find anyone who remembers this happening, so I think it was a test market, and sales were as bad as you’d think. With our local news stations jokingly called it the McHeart Attack.

      Ok, I’m going a bit off the rails a bit towards the end, but my point is, everyday I wake up, remember I’m on earth, and my reaction is always the same. “Ugh, humans…”

      Because everything on this god damned planet is dumb as hell. People are dumb as hell. I don’t understand why people are afraid of being abducted by aliens. Yeah, sure, they play with your butthole a bit, but then you get to go to a different non-earth planet. I’m 42. I get my butthole played with just going to the doctors, and afterwards I still have to live on earth!

      Look, I’ve lost track of the point I was making because I got angry thinking about how my mom wouldn’t let 13 year old me eat the McHeart Attack. And now 42 year old me just wants to hang out in some corn fields, and chill with some aliens on another planet. And if they need to check my butthole for drugs or whatever, so be it.

      TAKE ME WITH YOU ALIEN FRIENDS!!!

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      That’s the point, really. People can be terrible or great, no matter their background, or identity.

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    From a masto comment in the wild:

    Jesse Ochoa’s Facebook is batshit crazy. Thinks Trump is anointed by god and plays Qanon number games with the bible. And leftists/Obamas are literal demons, of course.

    How tf did these guys pass any sort of employment screening, and well before Trump’s current reign of terror?

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      When did he get hired? Because those sound like the job qualifications they’re looking for right now.

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      You don’t think that makes them qualified for this administration?

      Also the video trump reposted where he kicks the tail light. It doesn’t really day what he think it says. It actually gives credence that this could even be a first or second degree murder.

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      well before Trump’s current reign of terror?

      Now you’re starting to understand…

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    In the initial aftermath, Stephen Miller, a top Trump aide and a leading force behind the immigration enforcement operations, called Pretti “a would-be assassin.” But Miller changed tack later in the week when he said in a statement that CBP officers “may not have been following” protocol related to confronting bystanders.

    No honor amongst thieves.

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      I bet he changed his tune because he saw their last names. It can’t be overstated how much Miller hates Hispanic people.

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        People are complicated and layered and there can be more than one reason why something happens.

        But the way he “broke up” with his latin best friend in high school suggests… there’s more than racism to his visceral hatred of latinos.

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          Miller is pretty well documented as being a racist since at least high school. There was an article recently where they interviewed a bunch of his classmates and they all concurred he’s been like this for a while.

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            Okay? That’s what I said.

            What I left unsaid but strongly implied is that he was (likely) in love with best (latin) friend.

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        The biggest Trump supporter I know is my 52 year old Hispanic neighbor. He would love ICE to come through our neighborhood, but he’s literally the person on our street they’re most likely to take. Needless to say, his life is pretty miserable. Dude pretty much hates everyone, and talks shit about his wife all the time

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          I don’t think you should, but you could always send in an anonymous tip to ICE thereby calling out your neighbor on his bluff.

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            The thought has definitely crossed my mind lmao

            But no, I don’t need to bring that energy to my neighborhood right now. Maybe I’ll wait until right before the election so he can’t vote

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              Good call, as in no way they’d stop at this person alone for once, and for twice I don’t think that with all his thickness in the head, you’d like to see him being beaten and shot by the brownshirts.