“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
That line from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four has been lodged in my mind all weekend as the Trump administration and senior US law enforcement officials described the events leading up to the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis – the second American citizen shot dead in the city by federal immigration agents in less than three weeks – even as video footage and eyewitness testimony told a very different story to their preferred narrative.
