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Experian this episode is brought to you by Good Ranchers. This Year in America 250 support the great ranchers who have brought you food for 250 years. Subscribe today. Get $25 off your first order of 100% American meat delivered right to your door. Another week, another leftist activist shot by a cop while obstructing federal law enforcement. Everybody is feverishly debating the angles, the timing, if and when he was disarmed, if and when he had the right to carry a gun. In that moment, everybody seems to be missing the point. We will get into the real crux of the matter as well as, I think, the million dollar question that people are ignoring. Why is this only happening in Minneapolis? Why is is this always happening in Minneapolis? I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. So, so much to get to. I'll explain why I sound like this and why I'm here in this room. First, though, I want to tell you about Good Ranchers right now. 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But then maybe it's because I was sledding with the little boys yesterday. Maybe. I don't know why. I appear to have contracted bubonic plague, which is why my voice sounds even deeper and more sultry than usual. So I will be doing this show as Barry White because we cannot miss it because there's another left wing riot in Minneapolis because another activist went out and got himself shot by a cop. And everybody is misrepresenting it, including some people on the right, but mostly it's coming from the left. What is really going on? First of all, just want to lay my cards on the table. I think that anybody who is counter signaling law enforcement right now is useless. Just doesn't get it. Any of the people forget about the left. They want to overthrow the whole government. But I'm talking about the people on the right, the people who say they're principled, reasonable conservatives. And they say, well, you know, I mean, look, I want to enforce immigration law, but I don't know. I mean, let's slow down the video to a micro millisecond. I don't know. Maybe those police, maybe they used a little bit too much. I'm done with that. I'm so done with that. If that's your reaction to this, you're not going to make it. Look, we'll take your votes. Thank you, I appreciate it. But you are useless to this political movement. You're just not going to make it. You're just politically useless. You don't understand what time it is. I am much, much more concerned about the ICE in my neighborhood than I am about any supposed misdeeds of ICE and federal law enforcement. Okay, waka waka. Alright. But I mean it. And you should be too. What do we know? We know that the guy who was shot, his name is Alex Preddy, 37 years old. We know that he was violently resisting as the cops were attempting to disarm him. Why were they disarming him? Because he was carrying a gun. Now there's nothing intrinsically wrong, there's nothing illegal about carrying a gun, especially if he had a concealed carry permit. Though we'll come to some complicating factors on that in a moment. Nevertheless, he was being disarmed and he was resisting. Who shot him? Was this some new person? You know they've had to staff up on ice? Border patrol's had to staff up. Maybe this is someone who didn't get enough training. Maybe it was a really young person. Maybe it was a lady cop. No offense to the ladies out there, but sometimes lady cops are a little more trigger happy. No, the man who shot is an eight year border patrol veteran. So this is a guy who is extremely well trained, who has a lot of experience. Now Preddy had a permit to carry, but according to his family, he never did carry. This was totally out of the blue for him to carry. And there's no evidence that he was carrying his identification which would have been able to prove that he was able to carry in any case. Strange, right? I'm all for concealed carry. I don't carry myself generally, but I'm all for it in principle. Why would a guy who has the permit, who never carries show up to a very tense situation which has already led to multiple riots, has already led to officer involved shootings, as in the case of Renee Goode, which was also entirely justified. Why would you show up there with a gun? What do we know about the operation? We know it was a targeted operation. So it wasn't just ICE showing up to round everybody up willy nilly. You know, if you look like you enjoy tacos, you're going to get in the van. No, this was targeted. They were going after someone who was guilty of domestic assault, disorderly conduct and driving without a valid license. Oh, and sneaking into this country Illegally. And this guy, Alex Priddy, decided that it would be a good idea to go obstruct federal law enforcement. To me, the most important little bit of context before we get to the video, which we will, is an interview that his parents gave to cbs. His parents obviously are distraught. We should pray for them. We should pray for him, for the repose of his soul. What the parents said was they had had a recent conversation with their son, 37 years old, he should be an adult, but he was clearly behaving like an overgrown child. And the parents sat him down and said, please don't engage with the federal officers. If you want to go out and protest, you can, but please don't engage. Here's the quote. We had this discussion with him two weeks ago or so. You know, that. Go ahead and protest, but do not engage. Do not do anything stupid. Basically, why did they have this conversation? Because they knew he would do something stupid. Why did they have this conversation? Because they knew that he was going to be a danger to other people and to himself. They knew that he had been radicalized. They knew that he wasn't just going out there to hold a sign and yell. He was looking for a fight. They go on. This is per the parents to CBS News. And he said he knows that. Not to do anything stupid. He knew that. He obviously didn't. Okay, let's take a look at the video of the shooting. So it opens up. There's clearly some scuffle. You see this guy in the middle of the street, which he has no right to do. This reminds us of Renee Goode. Renee Goode, who was just blocking traffic. Even that you're not allowed to do. Even that's a dangerous situation. What if someone needs to get by? What if an ambulance needs to get by? But you certainly can't obstruct law enforcement as they are trying to get violent criminals. They take him down. You hear shot, shot, shot. Then you hear the rest of the shots. And then the most pathetic reaction comes immediately after the shots. You hear the person filming say, what? What? This reminds us of the Renee Goode shooting. What are you. Why did the guns have bullets in them? Do you remember that? I think that was the lesbian partner in the Renee Goode shooting said, why do the guns have bullets in them? She didn't know that guns had bullets in them. She didn't know that the cops aren't there with, like, you know, funny little flag guns that shoot out the word boom like in the cartoons. She thought it was all fun and games. She thought there were no consequences to obstructing law enforcement. What. What did that person expect? I'm not even talking about the victim. I'm talking about the person who was filming. What did that person expect? You have someone in an altercation with the police, resisting arrest with a gun, already obstructing law enforcement, and then what do you know? Five seconds later, the cops shoot him.
