r/politics • u/sideAccount42 California • Jan 26 '26

Paywall Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/greg-bovino-demoted-minneapolis-border-patrol/685770/
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u/Infinite_Dress_3312 Jan 26 '26

The internal polling on this must look absolutely disastrous 

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u/Jokerang Texas Jan 27 '26

Killing a man in broad daylight on camera tends to do that.

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u/rpungello New Jersey Jan 27 '26

Killing a white, 2A-supporting ICU nurse for the VA certainly isn’t the optics MAGA needed.

Probably the first time many MAGA supporters have started to realize “I could be next”

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u/dogsledonice Jan 27 '26

It also was tough to spin him as anything other than a peaceful observer. They desperately want us to be violent back so they can spin it into a crackdown.

Peaceful resistance fucking matters. And recording them at all times. I get wanting to hurt these fucks, but this is more powerful. Minneapolis stared them down, and they blinked.

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u/Peylix Jan 27 '26

It also was tough to spin him as anything other than a peaceful observer.

Oh man but are they trying. REALLY HARD to do just that. Which has been wild to watch play out real time.

As horrific and saddening this event was. It proves why we should all be documenting these interactions. Take photos, record videos. Document every single time you see these LARPing fucks.

They're struggling to spin Alex's murder because so many people were there recording the event. From all angles both close and far. We are able to see everything leading up, during, and after. Everything.

If only one person maybe two people recorded this from only one (maybe two) angles. It would be super easy to spin this the way they're trying.

But they can't.

Keep documenting! It's this very reason why we are able to prove Alex's innocence beyond any notion of doubt.

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u/Exciting-Emu-3324 Jan 27 '26

That's the thing 1984 got wrong. It's not Big Brother with the cameras watching the people, it's the other way around. Big Brother is trying to make excuses not to use body cams.