Another ICE Shooting in Minnesota

[Anonymous]

Beautifully said by jimmy kimmel.

Jimmy Kimmel devoted his entire Monday night monologue to addressing the murder of Alex Pretti: "One atrocity after another"

"Tonight is our 23rd anniversary; we went on the air 23 years ago tonight. It was a very different time back then, a better time."

"I spent the weekend, like probably a lot of you did, looking at my phone and just feeling shocked and sick about what is happening in Minneapolis."

"You see one video after another: screaming people being torn from their families, Americans being pulled out of their cars for the crime of having an accent, and small children being teargassed and taken into custody."

"It is just one atrocity after another being committed by this gang of poorly trained, shamefully led, mask-wearing goons."

"They are committing vile, heartless, and even criminal acts. It's sickening and frustrating to watch because it feels like we’re all being forced to play a game that has no rules."

"We see videos in which one of our fellow Americans is clearly executed by ICE, and they won't even admit it was a mistake."

"They say the SUV Renee Good was driving was 'weaponized.' They say the gun Alex Pretti had a license to carry—in an open-carry state—was the issue."

"Many of these same people screamed loudly in support of Kyle Rittenhouse carrying a gun, yet Alex Pretti did not even draw or touch his weapon."

"It was taken from him by an agent before he was shot dead."

"They fired ten times on an ICU nurse and then told us it was justified. Is that the 'law and order' you voted for?"

"Every day is a nightmare. My wife and I have family in Minneapolis; they’re afraid to take their kids to school or go to work."

"I can only imagine how people who aren't white feel about this."

"What is the plan? Is it to just keep doing this in every city that didn't vote for Donald Trump?"

"Can we agree that peaceful protesters, including a mom driving an SUV after dropping her kid at school and a nurse who stepped in to protect a woman, don't deserve to be shot dead in the street by the people we pay to protect us?"

"Can we agree that when a person is murdered in cold blood, there should at least be an investigation?"

"Our ironically titled head of Homeland Security has a responsibility to get facts before telling us that what we saw, we did not see."

"If we can't agree on that, forget it."

"It's on video. Form your own opinion without being told what you saw, and then say something."

"Where are the reasonable voices on the right?"

"If this were a group of trans swimmers shooting a guy for making a cell phone video, you'd be heating up the electric chairs right now. Admit it."

"The right is claiming agents were in danger because a gun was 'produced,' but the video tells a different story."

"If that were ISIS instead of ICE, we'd be firing missiles and pledging allegiance to the flag together right now."

"This has to stop, and I’m convinced the only people who can stop it are on the right."

"We need decent people to show some courage and common sense."

"Meanwhile, the administration is focused on other things."

"Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to Governor Tim Walz asking for Minnesota’s voter rolls in exchange for 'de-escalation.'"

"It was a 'cease and desist to be a democracy' letter, which Walz flatly denied."

"Pro-tip to the Attorney General: there are two million documents in the Epstein files we’re still waiting on. Work on those instead."

"Trump claims he had a 'very good call' with Walz, which usually just means he didn't use a slur."

"He’s replacing his 'number one ice-hole' in Minneapolis, Greg Bovino—a man who looks like the Proud Boys recruited McLovin—with Tom Homan."

"Bovino actually claimed the Border Patrol agents were the 'victims' in the shooting."

"As for Homan, he was caught on tape in 2024 accepting $50,000 in a fast-food bag from undercover agents."

"In this administration, taking a bag of cash gets you a promotion."

"While the country mourns, the President is boasting about his new $400 million ballroom and sharing designs for an 'Independence Arch' that looks like something from Liberace’s lawn."

"In less than a month, this administration has started a war in Minnesota, invaded Venezuela, and killed two US citizens, yet he still thinks he was cheated out of a Nobel Peace Prize."

"Finally, I want to leave you with the man Steven Miller called a 'would-be assassin.'"

"Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse who treated veterans."

"In a video from 2024, Alex honored a patient who passed away, saying, 'Today we remember that freedom is not free. We have to work at it, nurture it, protect it, and even sacrifice for it.'"

"Alex Pretti, may he rest in peace."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:CNN headline that he Alex Pretti had a physical confrontation/altercation with ICE officers the week prior to shooting and broke a rib. It’s behind a paywall.

The interview with his colleagues somewhat disturbing. And his father's speech admitting that he warned him not to confront LEO. Why would the parent be warning their kid who is going to the peaceful protest? My children engaged into numerous protests and it never crossed my mind to warn them about not confronting LEO, even thought they are just high schoolers.

Doesn't matter. Doesn't change the facts of what we can clearly see with our eyes. Doesn't change the facts that nothing Alex did was grounds for summary execution. Stop trying to obfuscate.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CNN headline that he Alex Pretti had a physical confrontation/altercation with ICE officers the week prior to shooting and broke a rib. It’s behind a paywall.

The interview with his colleagues somewhat disturbing. And his father's speech admitting that he warned him not to confront LEO. Why would the parent be warning their kid who is going to the peaceful protest? My children engaged into numerous protests and it never crossed my mind to warn them about not confronting LEO, even thought they are just high schoolers.

The earlier incident started when he stopped his car after observing ICE agents chasing what he described as a family on foot, and began shouting and blowing his whistle, according to a source who asked not to be named out of fear of retribution.

Pretti later told the source that five agents tackled him and one leaned on his back – an encounter that left him with a broken rib. The agents quickly released him at the scene.

Now, here's some education about protests:

There was a protest in my town just after the Floyd murder. I live 8 blocks from the area in my town where it was occurring. My son called and told me to stay away as they were using tear gas. His business is close to the periphery of where the protests were going, and he stayed there all night in case he needed to board up windows; tear gas from 5 blocks away reached his location. I did stay away, just walked a few blocks from my house to where I could hear the bangs and other noise. Both he and I supported the protests.

The Minneapolis judge who initially barred the feds from using tear gas examined the legal requirements for a TRO (not sure if it was an injunction vs TRO-- I'm not clear as to the legal distinctions). Regarding the first amendment, the government tried to argue that the fact that people who had signed declarations said they planned to continue observing--which was primarily was Pretti was doing--meant their 1st amendment rights were not being curtailed. But the judge wrote that the test of chilling effects on 1st amendment rights is not whether an individual is determined to continue to exercise them, it is whether a person of "ordinary firmness" would be reluctant to do so. All the calls from the right to stay away and stay home (hard to do when your entire city is a potential site of ICE action and you can find yourself in the middle just going about your day--like the 17 year old working at Target or the family tear gassed in their car coming home from baseball practice) simply underline the judge's statements--that the very fact that "common sense" would dictate people to stay away is evidence of the government violating free speech rights.

So sure, you can maybe avoid persecution from the govt by staying home. This is true for the people in Iran and for people in the United States. But who is the perp now?

Guys, if we just would have stayed home and let the British do what they want we wouldn’t be dealing with these maga pedos and Russian bots.

Maybe they have a point.

So, you're saying these people are like Tories and Benedict Arnolds?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CNN headline that he Alex Pretti had a physical confrontation/altercation with ICE officers the week prior to shooting and broke a rib. It’s behind a paywall.

The interview with his colleagues somewhat disturbing. And his father's speech admitting that he warned him not to confront LEO. Why would the parent be warning their kid who is going to the peaceful protest? My children engaged into numerous protests and it never crossed my mind to warn them about not confronting LEO, even thought they are just high schoolers.

Doesn't matter. Doesn't change the facts of what we can clearly see with our eyes. Doesn't change the facts that nothing Alex did was grounds for summary execution. Stop trying to obfuscate.

I think it matters, because two members of LBGTQ group are dead now. Why democrats use LGBTQ as their scape goats? Are they the most disposable people?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CNN headline that he Alex Pretti had a physical confrontation/altercation with ICE officers the week prior to shooting and broke a rib. It’s behind a paywall.

The interview with his colleagues somewhat disturbing. And his father's speech admitting that he warned him not to confront LEO. Why would the parent be warning their kid who is going to the peaceful protest? My children engaged into numerous protests and it never crossed my mind to warn them about not confronting LEO, even thought they are just high schoolers.

Doesn't matter. Doesn't change the facts of what we can clearly see with our eyes. Doesn't change the facts that nothing Alex did was grounds for summary execution. Stop trying to obfuscate.

I think it matters, because two members of LBGTQ group are dead now. Why democrats use LGBTQ as their scape goats? Are they the most disposable people?

No, they are the most compassionate people who care about Somalians immigrants and their children.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We are so divided.

I think we are more united than we have been honestly. Polls showing huge swings among independents on ICE.

Lies. There were more ICE arrests in Texas than Minnesota, and no single riot, even in liberal Austin area. Same with Virginia. Even in strong blue area with a new governor who does not support ICE, no single massive protest and no ICE interference. Even democrats are divided on this issue.

I can show you the polls but I’m busy. I’m not lying though.

No one wants this.

No one wants pedophiles amd rapists rounded up?

This is the delusional left.

We do, that’s why most of the country is fighting the deployment of these Presidential Pedophile Protection Units around the country. Unqualified and unvetted scumbags are murdering people in the street and doing god knows what to the people they are kidnapping. Sexual abuse by the “agents” seems to be pretty rampant in these detention centers. ICE has done nothing but bring crime and shame to Minneapolis.

Most of the country aka Minnesota? Also, if you think these people are unqualified, there are other ways to address it, through the legal system.

No, most of the country.

We can ultimately address it by putting Miller, Noem, and everyone else involved in this on trial. It’s going to happen, we just need to put a stop to it in the meantime. The fascists are going to lose, like they always do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CNN headline that he Alex Pretti had a physical confrontation/altercation with ICE officers the week prior to shooting and broke a rib. It’s behind a paywall.

The interview with his colleagues somewhat disturbing. And his father's speech admitting that he warned him not to confront LEO. Why would the parent be warning their kid who is going to the peaceful protest? My children engaged into numerous protests and it never crossed my mind to warn them about not confronting LEO, even thought they are just high schoolers.

I'm guessing they're white.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CNN headline that he Alex Pretti had a physical confrontation/altercation with ICE officers the week prior to shooting and broke a rib. It’s behind a paywall.

The interview with his colleagues somewhat disturbing. And his father's speech admitting that he warned him not to confront LEO. Why would the parent be warning their kid who is going to the peaceful protest? My children engaged into numerous protests and it never crossed my mind to warn them about not confronting LEO, even thought they are just high schoolers.

I'm guessing they're white.

Alex Pretti was also white.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CNN headline that he Alex Pretti had a physical confrontation/altercation with ICE officers the week prior to shooting and broke a rib. It’s behind a paywall.

The interview with his colleagues somewhat disturbing. And his father's speech admitting that he warned him not to confront LEO. Why would the parent be warning their kid who is going to the peaceful protest? My children engaged into numerous protests and it never crossed my mind to warn them about not confronting LEO, even thought they are just high schoolers.

Well aren't you special. Your kids probably live in and around the DMV or NYC where for the most part the LEO are used to protestors and unlike ICE are professional. NYC and DC went through the entire BLM, NO Kings, Women's March, IMF, Pro-Choice protests with millions of protesters for and against and not one person was murdered. Oh, and the NYPD and MPD officers were constantly confronted by protesters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CNN headline that he Alex Pretti had a physical confrontation/altercation with ICE officers the week prior to shooting and broke a rib. It’s behind a paywall.

The interview with his colleagues somewhat disturbing. And his father's speech admitting that he warned him not to confront LEO. Why would the parent be warning their kid who is going to the peaceful protest? My children engaged into numerous protests and it never crossed my mind to warn them about not confronting LEO, even thought they are just high schoolers.

I'm guessing they're white.

Are you implying that black and asian kids have lower IQ and needs more lecturing from their parents?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CNN headline that he Alex Pretti had a physical confrontation/altercation with ICE officers the week prior to shooting and broke a rib. It’s behind a paywall.

The interview with his colleagues somewhat disturbing. And his father's speech admitting that he warned him not to confront LEO. Why would the parent be warning their kid who is going to the peaceful protest? My children engaged into numerous protests and it never crossed my mind to warn them about not confronting LEO, even thought they are just high schoolers.

Well aren't you special. Your kids probably live in and around the DMV or NYC where for the most part the LEO are used to protestors and unlike ICE are professional. NYC and DC went through the entire BLM, NO Kings, Women's March, IMF, Pro-Choice protests with millions of protesters for and against and not one person was murdered. Oh, and the NYPD and MPD officers were constantly confronted by protesters.

Minnesota is more used to protestors than DC, DMV and NYC all together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CNN headline that he Alex Pretti had a physical confrontation/altercation with ICE officers the week prior to shooting and broke a rib. It’s behind a paywall.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/us/alex-pretti-protesters-minneapolis-invs

CNN is free. Sounds like was filming at a different location and got tackled.

From the article:

"The earlier incident started when he stopped his car after observing ICE agents chasing what he described as a family on foot, and began shouting and blowing his whistle, according to a source who asked not to be named out of fear of retribution.

Pretti later told the source that five agents tackled him and one leaned on his back – an encounter that left him with a broken rib. The agents quickly released him at the scene."

If I were walking or driving and saw a family on foot being chased by ICE, I'd like to think that I'd also stop my car, get out, blow a whistle if I had one, film the interaction if I was able to, and make lots of noise. Why? Because it's important that citizens bear witness to these acts. It's important that the people being chased know that someone witnessed the act and can act as an eyewitness. It's important that the ICE agents know that chasing a family is not the right way to do their job. I personally wouldn't tease the officers or use expletives as some public witnesses do (not saying Pretti did), but I would certainly bear witness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CNN headline that he Alex Pretti had a physical confrontation/altercation with ICE officers the week prior to shooting and broke a rib. It’s behind a paywall.

The interview with his colleagues somewhat disturbing. And his father's speech admitting that he warned him not to confront LEO. Why would the parent be warning their kid who is going to the peaceful protest? My children engaged into numerous protests and it never crossed my mind to warn them about not confronting LEO, even thought they are just high schoolers.

The earlier incident started when he stopped his car after observing ICE agents chasing what he described as a family on foot, and began shouting and blowing his whistle, according to a source who asked not to be named out of fear of retribution.

Pretti later told the source that five agents tackled him and one leaned on his back – an encounter that left him with a broken rib. The agents quickly released him at the scene.

Now, here's some education about protests:

There was a protest in my town just after the Floyd murder. I live 8 blocks from the area in my town where it was occurring. My son called and told me to stay away as they were using tear gas. His business is close to the periphery of where the protests were going, and he stayed there all night in case he needed to board up windows; tear gas from 5 blocks away reached his location. I did stay away, just walked a few blocks from my house to where I could hear the bangs and other noise. Both he and I supported the protests.

The Minneapolis judge who initially barred the feds from using tear gas examined the legal requirements for a TRO (not sure if it was an injunction vs TRO-- I'm not clear as to the legal distinctions). Regarding the first amendment, the government tried to argue that the fact that people who had signed declarations said they planned to continue observing--which was primarily was Pretti was doing--meant their 1st amendment rights were not being curtailed. But the judge wrote that the test of chilling effects on 1st amendment rights is not whether an individual is determined to continue to exercise them, it is whether a person of "ordinary firmness" would be reluctant to do so. All the calls from the right to stay away and stay home (hard to do when your entire city is a potential site of ICE action and you can find yourself in the middle just going about your day--like the 17 year old working at Target or the family tear gassed in their car coming home from baseball practice) simply underline the judge's statements--that the very fact that "common sense" would dictate people to stay away is evidence of the government violating free speech rights.

So sure, you can maybe avoid persecution from the govt by staying home. This is true for the people in Iran and for people in the United States. But who is the perp now?

This is extremely concerning and given the fact that they’ve been impeding an investigation, I have to wonder if the agent that killed him was aware of this. Very sus that they took his gun and ran off with it and now we’re hearing that it “accidentally” discharged while the agent was running away like he stole it. Set up? Premeditated???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CNN headline that he Alex Pretti had a physical confrontation/altercation with ICE officers the week prior to shooting and broke a rib. It’s behind a paywall.

The interview with his colleagues somewhat disturbing. And his father's speech admitting that he warned him not to confront LEO. Why would the parent be warning their kid who is going to the peaceful protest? My children engaged into numerous protests and it never crossed my mind to warn them about not confronting LEO, even thought they are just high schoolers.

Doesn't matter. Doesn't change the facts of what we can clearly see with our eyes. Doesn't change the facts that nothing Alex did was grounds for summary execution. Stop trying to obfuscate.

Where did I say that? I am a strong supporter that the ICE agent should be investigated, charged and brought to the court.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CNN headline that he Alex Pretti had a physical confrontation/altercation with ICE officers the week prior to shooting and broke a rib. It’s behind a paywall.

The interview with his colleagues somewhat disturbing. And his father's speech admitting that he warned him not to confront LEO. Why would the parent be warning their kid who is going to the peaceful protest? My children engaged into numerous protests and it never crossed my mind to warn them about not confronting LEO, even thought they are just high schoolers.

I'm guessing they're white.

Alex Pretti was also white.

Yes I think that’s why people are taking this killing more seriously. Unfortunately this country often shrugs its shoulders at black men getting killed by cops and sides with Law Enforcement.