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"Those same sources told Fox there is no indication he meant to kill agents and believe the shooting will likely be deemed a 'bad shoot' driven by split-second decisions in a chaotic moment. Several described DHS’s messaging as a disaster for crisis management that has worsened the situation, eroded trust, and cost the agency support, even as they continue to back the administration’s broader immigration agenda."
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #Minnesota #Republicans
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"Multiple federal immigration enforcement sources, including senior officials, told Fox News that DHS has damaged its credibility and internal morale by publicly exaggerating claims that Alex Pretti intended a 'massacre,' despite video evidence showing he never drew his weapon."
~ Aaron Parnas
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #Minnesota #Republicans
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"Fox’s Bill Melugin, one of the administration’s favorite reporters, wrote, 'I’m told there is extreme frustration with DHS officials going on TV and putting out statements claiming that Alex Pretti was intending to conduct a "massacre" of federal agents or wanted to carry out "maximum damage," even after numerous videos appeared to show those claims were inaccurate.'”
~ Bulwark
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #Minnesota #Republicans
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thebulwark.com/p/honor-pretti-…
Honor Pretti and Good. End the Occupation.
Now is the time to think big and be bold.William Kristol (The Bulwark)
"Calls for an investigation have come from across the political spectrum after video analysis showed officers had removed a handgun from Pretti that he was reportedly permitted to carry – and which he was not handling – before fatally shooting him on Saturday. Trump officials, meanwhile, are continuing to lie about what happened."
~ Nicola Slawson
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #Minnesota #Republicans
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theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j…
First Thing: Obamas call Alex Pretti’s killing a ‘tragedy’ as pressure mounts for full investigation
Barack and Michelle Obama say killing should be ‘wake-up call’ and accuse federal agents of not operating in lawful way. Plus, meet the OB-GYNs fighting Trump’s ‘guerrilla war on science’Nicola Slawson (The Guardian)
":The DC insider press is full of stories this morning about Congressional Republicans frustrated/worried/panicky about the incredible mess their madman-in-chief has made of things."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #Minnesota #Republicans
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hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-sen…
"The Senate and the White House are suddenly in the middle of the most serious political crisis of.....Trump’s second term"
Everyone needs to be calling Congress today - they need to hear from us. Loud and proud!Simon Rosenberg (Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg)
"Today the editorial boards of both Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal and his New York Post urged the administration to pause its ICE operations in Minneapolis after the killing of Alex Pretti."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #Minnesota #Republicans
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heathercoxrichardson.substack.…
January 25, 2026
As the nation mourned the killing of VA ICU nurse Alex Pretti yesterday at the hands of federal officials in Minneapolis, President Donald J.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
"Donald Trump is reportedly 'furious' with the way the Department of Homeland Security has handled the events in Minnesota over the past several weeks. He is not upset with the immigration enforcement activities. Rather, he is upset that Americans are seeing them."
~ Aaron Parnas
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #Minnesota #Republicans
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"This is about good vs. evil."
~ Will Bunch
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #violence #fascism #Trump #Minnesota #evil
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inquirer.com/opinion/minneapol…
Alex Pretti’s ICE murder is beyond politics. This is about good vs. evil
Trump's inhumane immigration raids and two ICE murders has triggered an American yearning for a return to morality.Will Bunch (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
"The Minnesota National Guard is being deployed to protect United States citizens from the federal government."
~ Mary Trump
#Trump #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #ICE #DHS #CBP #Minnesota #NationalGuard
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“He Was a Good Man”
The federal government murders another American citizenMary L Trump (The Good in Us by Mary L. Trump)
Posting the alt-text because I think more people need to aware of what image shared by @anamariecox.bsky.social Means:
"A combination of the #StarWars Rebel Alliance symbol and the #Minnesota state bird. The Rebel Alliance symbol is a crescent shape that’s taller than it is wide... In this logo, a Minnesota Loon bird has its wings spread out and up for the side “wings.” For the middle spire, the loon’s head is looking up and to the right with one red eye visible."
Video from Sunday morning shows people in #BCA jackets at the scene. One person asked those standing nearby to leave the area for about 20 mins so investigators could document the scene.
The BCA & the #HennepinCounty Sheriff’s Office are both suing the #Trump admin after the #shooting. Early Sunday, a federal judge in #Minnesota granted a temporary restraining order [#TRO] blocking federal agencies from destroying or altering #evidence related to #AlexPretti’s killing.
"Victor Manuel Diaz died Jan. 14 after being found unconscious in the Camp East Montana detention center in El Paso, Texas. Four days later, ICE announced the news, saying in a statement that his death was a 'presumed suicide,' though the official cause of death remains under investigation."
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
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"The family of a Minnesota man who died at a Texas facility eight days after he was detained in Minneapolis is questioning the circumstances of his death and demanding a more thorough investigation."
~ Minneapolios Star Tribune
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
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"As DHS/ICE cannot work with state and local law enforcement due to their lawless tactics they are having to fly people they detain in Minnesota out of state to other detention facilities. Even children separated from their parents."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
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hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-cou…
The Courage Of The People Of Minnesota Is Lifting Up And Inspiring A Nation
Watch now | For those in the path of the storm - stay safe all!Simon Rosenberg (Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg)
Sam Levin reports that after what ICE did to the little girl and her father was publicly known, ICE flew the two back to Minnesota and is continuing to detain the father, with the little girl now reunited with her mother.
Irina Vaynerman, one of the lawyers helping the family, states,
“The horror is truly unimaginable. The depravity of all of this is beyond words.”
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
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theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j…
US immigration agents detain two-year-old Minnesota girl: ‘depravity beyond words’
DHS detain a toddler and her father on Thursday and fly them to Texas before returning child on judge’s orderSam Levin (The Guardian)
"Video circulating on social media appeared to show agents using chemical irritants and flash-bang devices as crowds gathered at the scene."
Attorneys for the family say they were asylum-seekers who were pulled over without a warrant and did not have a final order for removal.
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
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"A 2-year-old girl and her father were detained by federal immigration agents in south Minneapolis and placed on a commercial flight out of Minnesota, despite a judge ordering the toddler’s release."
The father, Elvis Joel Tipan Echeverria, was detained near Powderhorn Park on Jan. 22, while returning home from a grocery store with his daughter, according to lawyers for the family."
~ Susan Du and Mara Klecker
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty
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"Now the visible targets of border enforcement are increasingly immigrants who have built their lives in the U.S. – neighbors, friends, co-workers – as well as anyone who opposes ICE’s tactics, like Renee Good."
#Trump #ICE #DHS #immigrants #deportations #cruelty #Minnesota
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"But Trump during his second presidency has greatly shifted immigration enforcement north into the interior of the U.S. And ICE has played a central role. ...
Americans may not know about the experiences of migrants who are quickly deported near the border, but it is harder to ignore recent images of people snatched up within their own neighborhoods."
#Trump #ICE #DHS #immigrants #deportations #cruelty #Minnesota
/26
"From 2010-2020, nearly 80% of all deportations were initiated at or near the U.S.-Mexico border. During the COVID-19 pandemic, that number jumped to 98%, as both the Trump and Biden administrations utilized Title 42, a public health statute that allowed the government to rapidly deport recently arrived migrants."
~ The Conversation
#Trump #ICE #DHS #immigrants #deportations #cruelty #Minnesota
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theconversation.com/ice-immigr…
ICE immigration tactics are shocking more Americans as US-Mexico border operations move north
Militarized immigration enforcement used to be confined to near the US-Mexico border, far away from most Americans’ front lawns.The Conversation
"ICE is the worst of America, indeed perhaps the worst of humanity – a window into the corruption that is possible in the human soul. They are animals with the gall to call themselves men."
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
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"[Pictures of Liam used as bait by ICE] make plain the sheer sadism of ICE and their agenda, the smallness, cowardice and moral degeneracy of people who would arm themselves to the teeth and cover their faces in order to attack a child not yet big enough to tie his own shoes."
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
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"It need not detract from the specificity of Liam and his suffering to say that his arrest and the photos of it that were released by the school that wants him back, are a potent symbol of what Trump’s ICE raids are doing, both to Minneapolis and to the country as a whole."
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
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"Liam’s plain blamelessness, his innocence, the useless cruelty of his capture, the bald, shameless cynicism of his use as 'bait' to capture the adults who love him – these evidence an evil I was naive enough not to know about. I am not so naive anymore."
~ Moira Donegan
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
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theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
The taking of Liam Ramos reveals the sheer sadism of ICE
It has become difficult to feel shock at the actions of the Trump administration. But this useless cruelty is shamelessMoira Donegan (The Guardian)
"You're using a 5-year-old to to bait other adults to come out and then you still detain the 5-year-old while another relative is there saying if you've got to take the father at least leave the child with us and then refuses to do that. Like you you've lost your humanity. What on earth?"
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
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Jemar Tisby comments on the story of ICE using five-year-old Liam Ramos as bait to lure his family out of their house, then sending Liam and his father to Texas:
"You've lost the plot as a human being at this point."
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
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youtube.com/watch?v=PWXo40SnYa…
The Escalating ICE Brutality and Church Protests
This week we talk about the recent autopsy reports that reveal the escalating brutality of ICE. Renee Goode’s autopsy revealed that she was shot four times i...YouTube
"No one in this family is a criminal — least of all, a five-year-old boy.
But what ICE did was not an error. It was the policy working as designed."
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
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"And because they did everything right, ICE knew exactly where to find them.
Agents didn’t have to investigate. They didn’t have to dismantle a criminal network or put themselves at risk. They simply showed up at a home and detained a preschooler whose backpack was still on his shoulders, despite having no deportation order and no allegation of criminality."
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
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"Liam is five years old. He wasn’t hiding and his family wasn’t evading the law. They entered through a legal port of entry and applied for asylum, checked in repeatedly with immigration authorities and did everything the United States asked of them — because that is what the law required."
~ Julie Roginsky
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
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saltypolitics.substack.com/p/t…
The Secret ICE Doesn’t Want You to Understand
Compliance is the new crimeJulie Roginsky (Salty Politics with Julie Roginsky)
"Trump is privately frustrated that chaotic scenes and protests in Minnesota are undermining his immigration message, with aides scrambling to shift focus from clashes and a fatal ICE shooting to highlighting arrests of alleged criminals, even as polling shows growing public concern that ICE tactics have gone too far and risks mounting political fallout ahead of the midterms."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Minnesota #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #immigrants
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The interview Status Coup conducted with a protester, which Heather Cox Richardson transcribes in the thread above, is at the link below, starting at about the 1.04 mark.
#Minnesota #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
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LIVE GENERAL STRIKE March Against ICE in -10 DEGREES | LIVE From Minneapolis
Status Coup reporter JT Cestkowski is LIVE ON THE GROUND in Minneapolis as thousands march as part of a statewide general strike to protest against President...YouTube
(continued from /4)
'"hit people with beanbag guns and batons for exercising their First Amendment rights, they don’t want people to, you know, exercise their Second Amendment rights, and certainly their Fourth, but also the Fourteenth, you know, basically, they’re attacking the whole Constitution.'”
#Minnesota #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
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"He continued: 'T]here was a memo that came out that said that they think they can break into people’s houses without warrants, you know, basically just like, trust us, which is, you know, fundamentally against the Fourth Amendment. And so if you look at the amendments, I mean, they’re trying to tear it down the First, they’ve gassed people, they’ve shot people, you know,'" (continued in /5)
#Minnesota #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
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"He explained: '[T]here is a minority who is trying to create a post-law, orderless, lawless society, where their might makes right. And because, you know, they have guns and are willing to use them, they think they can suspend the Constitution, suspend habeas corpus…, suspend civil liberties, generally speaking.'"
#Minnesota #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
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"Tens of thousands of Minnesotans took to the streets today in bitter cold temperatures with wind chills of -20°F (–28°C) to protest the occupation of Minneapolis and St. Paul by federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Status Coup News interviewed a protester walking down the street holding a sign that said: 'CLASSIC NAZI BLUNDER: INVADING IN WINTER.'”
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Minnesota #MaskedThugs
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Marimar Martinez was the first US citizen shot by ICE.
They claimed she was a terrorist. Said she was brandishing a weapon.
They lied. Video footage exonerated her and showed the ICE agent shot her five times.
He bragged to other agents “five shots, 7 holes”.
Silverio Villegas González was an undocumented immigrant who was shot and killed at close range while allegedly trying to flee.
He was dragged from his vehicle at a traffic stop after dropping his children off at school.
The bullet went through the back of his neck.
Keith Porter was shot and killed by an off duty ICE officer on New Years Eve in LA.
The officer alleges Porter pulled a weapon on him but the family and other witnesses deny that.
Renee Nicole Good was shot three times by an ICE agent who called her a “f*cking b*tch” after.
ICE claims she was using her vehicle as a weapon despite multiple videos showing she was trying to drive away from the agent.
2 of the 3 shots were through driver side door.
The ICE agent shot her through her windshield, moved out of the way of the vehicle and kept shooting.
He was in no danger. But he didn’t stop shooting until he got the kill shot.
Independent autopsy confirms it was through her left temple and out the right side of her skull.
There’s been so much documented abuse of power.
In addition to the shootings we have Liam Ramos, a five year old child who was used as bait and then taken by masked agents and sent from Minnesota to Texas.
There’s Geraldo Campos who was choked to death in an ICE camp in Texas.
The medical examiner officially ruled his death a homicide, and DHS moved to deport the witnesses!
Chaofeng Ge was found hanging in ICE custody.
They ruled it a suicide despite his arms and legs being tied behind his back.
Randall Gamboa Esquivel was in perfect health when detained by ICE.
He disappeared while in custody.
By the time his family located him, he was in a persistent vegetative state.
They deported him to Costa Rica and he died soon after.
David Courvelle worked as a detention officer in an ICE facility in Louisiana.
He sexually assaulted a Nicaraguan detainee for three months, forcing other detainees to keep watch while he abused her.
Silvia Reyna Mendoza, a mother of 8 who had been in the US for 40 years, was sexually harassed by an ICE contractor.
He reportedly would tell her if she was good to him, he would be good to her.
When she reported the harassment she was immediately detained.
Bayron Rovidio Marin had his leg broken during an ICE raid in LA.
He was then held in the hospital under a fake name so no one could find him.
He was chained to a hospital bed for 37 days until a court ordered his release.
There’s Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been in ICE custody for almost a year.
He was only two days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when they grabbed him.
He’s being denied his prosthetics, he’s been placed in solitary and his health is declining
Now there’s Alex Pretti, another US citizen shot and killed in broad daylight.
These are not just a few random incidents.
It’s not a few “bad apples”.
It’s a systemic problem.
These agents have been allowed to hide their identities, filled with hateful rhetoric and told they have immunity.
People are being abused, assaulted and killed by ICE.
This isn’t about immigration or crime, it’s about control & creating fear.
It’s tyranny and no one is safe under tyranny.
The scariest part is these are only the cases we know about.
At least 1,200 people are missing from Alligator Alcatraz.
Elected officials are regularly denied access into the camps.
We have to assume we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg.
Abolish ICE.
Close the camps.
Keep witnessing and speaking out.
I try not to discuss politics too often. I have filters to block it from my feed on Mastodon. But, murder is not politics and I cannot look away from this.
I have watched multiple angles of today's ICE murder in Minneapolis. I can't believe they are just murdering people in the streets for filming them. What this regime is doing is no different from what Iran is doing to their protestors.
They have already called the victim a domestic terrorist. He was standing there filming with his phone.
They walked up to him, shoved him, sprayed him with pepper spray, and then six agents beat him.
They claim he had weapon. Lets pretend ICE is being honest (even though the image of the weapon they posted was fake) about the weapon. Having a weapon is not illegal and it is not a terrorist act. If he pulled the weapon while he was being beaten by the six ICE agents, it would obviously be self defense.
What they did to that man is murder.
ICE are the terrorists. They are acting like the Gestapo.
The entire reason ICE exists is to investigate people who are in the US undocumented, which is not a crime. It is inhumane to give them weapons. It is inhumane to put people in concentration camps. It is inhumane to detain people without medical care.
I have resisted the urge to call this regime what it actually is up to this point. They are openly and proudly Nazis. It should not be taboo any longer to call them what they are.
“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power." -Robert G. Ingersoll
#ICE #ICEOut #Murder #Minneapolis #Minnesota
RE: hachyderm.io/@inthehands/11595…
#mnastodon #mpls #minnesota #uspol
‼️ Twin Cities residents‼️Citywide vigil, on every block
7:00pm tonight
There is no central gathering location, to prevent further ICE / DHS targeting. Vigil location is wherever you are.
Please contact your nearby neighbors now and spread the word. We want the whole city showing up. This has to end.
#MInneapolis #msp #MinneapolisProtests
Huge turnout against #ICE and #DHS, #protest/ #generalStrike in #Minneapolis #Minnesota yesterday
International observers and even some domestic observers:
You may ask why Americans aren't doing more
And I agree
But much is being done that you don't see because a lot going on is purposefully deemphasized in the #USA #newsmedia
Btw, this was in -10 F (-20 C) weather
