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So, if you're not quite sure who to believe about how the killing of Alex Pretti went down, here is BBC Verify's analysis of the available footage of the confrontation...

And lets be clear: this is the execution of a US citizen by Federal agents....

and in case you wondering, the National Rifle Association is up in arms (pun intended); carrying a legal gun in the US has often be justified as vital to resist agents of an oppressive state.

#USPol #AlexPretti #ICE

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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.

#law #murder #CoverUp


“They even got a #state search #warrant for a public area to conduct their investigation, but they were not allowed in,” O’Hara said.

The scene has since become “contaminated,” O’Hara said, adding the situation is “not ideal” for investigators.

#BCA Superintendent Drew Evans said Saturday that state & #local #police were unable to secure the scene & it was overrun by protesters, preventing the BCA from conducting its own investigation.

#law #AlexPretti #murder #CoverUp #Trump


Bureau of Criminal Apprehension arrives at #shooting scene after being turned away

More than 24 hours after a #CBP agent shot & killed #AlexPretti, personnel from #MNBCA have arrived at the scene.

#BCA staff are “canvassing & looking to collect whatever evidence may be there,” #Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said Sunday.

O’Hara said he requested the BCA to investigate immediately after the shooting, but “they were refused entry” by #federal agents.

#law #murder #CoverUp #Trump


This fucker’s priorities are revolting…

#Trump lashes out at #ballroom lawsuit as top officials defend #Minneapolis #shooting

A phalanx of top Trump admin officials assembled across Sunday morning news shows to defend the #shooting of #AlexPretti, a US citizen in #Minneapolis by a federal #immigration agent. Trump’s attention, it appears, was elsewhere.

Trump launched a 448-word missive on social media lambasting a lawsuit launched at his sprawling ballroom addition.

#law #murder #ICE #CBP


"The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed."

~ Michael and Susan Pretti

#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #truth #fascism #Minneapolis
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From Reddit, speaking is the man the government says is a terrorist. He’s honoring a Veteran in his care at the Minnesota VA hospital who had just passed. #AlexPretti #AmericanHero


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.

#uspol #alexpretti #abolishice #minnesota #fascism


Tom Emmer (R-MN) wants you all to know that he’s just waiting until a critical mass of his constituents have been murdered before he makes a statement. Any statement.

#AbolishICE #TrumpMustGo #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #ICE #JonathanRoss #DHS #Minneapolis #KristiNoem #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol


"What’s more, video evidence appears to show that ICE agents had already confiscated Pretti’s firearm in a scuffle before shooting him multiple times. …

The goal is submission and the strategy to achieve that goal is escalation. Miller, Homan and the leaders of ICE and CBP believe that they’ll come out on top at every step up the ICE/CPB escalation ladder."

#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder
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"They’re communicating this to the protestors and activists and the communities in which they’re operating: the more you resist us, the worse it will be for you and eventually you’ll have to back down. …

They believe public resisters will eventually have to knuckle under. So they’re happy to keep escalating. Because they have more and bigger guns and eventually those who oppose them will have to give in."

#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder
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"Remember dont bring a gun to a protest, unless its an illegal fire arm and you cross state lines and your name is Kyle. Then totally bring a gun, so we can call you a hero. 😒"

#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder #KyleRittenhouse
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"On January 24, 2026, 37-year-old U.S. citizen Alex Pretti was repeatedly and fatally shot by United States Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States."

~ Wikipedia

#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #murder #AlexPretti
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"Another day, another dead Minnesotan. Shot in the street while getting pinned down by masked federal thugs. And Donald Trump and Kristi Noem and Greg Bovino wasted no time putting out narratives that don’t at all square with the videos we’re seeing. But who you gonna believe? Them, or your lyin’ eyes?"

Matt Labash

#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder
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"RIP, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an intensive-care nurse by trade. Intensive-care nurses, not typically being he most war-like people. And who the goon squad is already slandering as a 'domestic terrorist.' Yeah, I’m for stopping domestic terrorism, too. Which is why someone should arrest Stephen Miller, who takes demented pleasure in waging war on his own people. While prompting his corrupt boss to do the same."

#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder
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"A New York Times video analysis shows [Alex Pretti] was holding a phone, not a gun, [when federal agents killed him]."

#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder
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"Zeteo spoke with two doctors who knew the victim to shed light on the man whom federal agents senselessly killed on Saturday.

'He was just a super nice guy, a super capable nurse,' Dimitri Drekonja, a doctor who knew and worked alongside Pretti, told Zeteo. 'And we are in a worse place for him being killed.'”

~ Prem Thakker

#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #murder #AlexPretti
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"Pretti worked as a nurse in an intensive care unit. In 2017, he was hired to support a Veterans Affairs medical trial, later moving on to work in critical-care nursing, according to the doctors who brought him on board. …

Dr. Aasma Shaukat, who co-led the trial with Drekonja, echoed the sentiment. 'He was just so sincere and very kind, just a sweet young man and eager to learn,' she told Zeteo."

#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #murder #AlexPretti
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"Again we have an ICE killing in which the Department of Homeland Security gets a story out first which, on its face, appears to describe an armed civilian in the process of committing a massacre of federal law enforcement officers. …

As now happens 100% of the time, these early DHS narratives are willfully absurd and don’t survive contact with abundant video evidence emerging from the scene."

~ Josh Marshall

#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder
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"My best current understanding is that the dead man, Alex Pretti, 37, was legally carrying a licensed firearm and was at the scene in some sort of observer status or perhaps there to place himself between ICE agents and those they were trying to assault or arrest. Video evidence seems to show clearly Pretti never brandished his firearm and actually used clear non-confrontation signals in his engagement with ICE agents."

#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder
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Statement from the parents of #AlexPretti, the man ICE executed in broad daylight:


💔Alex J. Pretti💔 age 37, of South #Minneapolis was gunned on in cold blood by #ICE thugs today. He was Brandishing his phone recording 🧊.

No criminal record. Worked for the VA as an ICU nurse. Legal gun owner. Homeowner. Upstanding member of his community. He was a hero in his career, and went out like a hero trying to protect the women the ICE officer pushed down.

A TRUE hero all around, he didn’t deserve this. RIP #AlexPretti

🦔 Reposted from Feminist News