MN - Alex Pretti dead after Minneapolis shooting involving immigration agents, US media report, January 24, 2026

[Summerliz03]

Or to not have so many illegal immigrants in the area.

Per this article, Minnesota’s illegal immigrant population is 1.6% to 2.3% of their total population. I don’t find that to be “so many”

https://www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2025/08/25/minnesota-unauthorized-immigrant-population-pew

Also wanted to add this from the bottom of the article.

 

[Inthedetails]

I certainly dont see it that way. ICE has requested that Minneapolis police assist with crowd control in these situations. The Mayor wont allow it. They aren't asking MPD to help them with the immigration arrests, just to keep the peace. Isn't that a police department's job? Neither one of these fatal shootings would have happened if police had been on scene to help with crowd control.

In the case of crowd control, there are 3000 federal agents sent to MN - it's more than greedy to expect a police force of 600 to support 3000 agents when those 600 have other jobs to do in the community. And, state officers HAVE been deployed to handle crowd control at the federal building, for example.

Here's another example of MN cooperating while the feds spread lies about it:

Minnesota Department of Corrections Releases New Evidence Showing DHS Is Publishing False Arrest Claims at Scale​

The Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) is releasing new evidence demonstrating that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continues to publish false Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “arrest” claims in press releases and on their website by mischaracterizing routine custody transfers from Minnesota state prisons. DHS’s “Worst of the Worst” (WOW) website, wow.dhs.gov/Minnesota, allows users to search by state and city for “criminal illegal aliens that have been removed from their state.”

DOC quickly identified 68 cases in which individuals were lawfully transferred from Minnesota Department of Corrections custody directly to ICE, only for DHS officials to falsely claim these same individuals were “arrested” by waves of federal agents deployed into Minnesota communities.

News Releases / Department of Corrections

mn.gov

The full press release is at the link. I posted the first two paragraphs.

 

[Inthedetails]

Per this article, Minnesota’s illegal immigrant population is 1.6% to 2.3% of their total population. I don’t find that to be “so many”

https://www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2025/08/25/minnesota-unauthorized-immigrant-population-pew

Also wanted to add this from the bottom of the article.

Of those 1.6 - 2.3% how many are the "worst of the worst" criminals we were promised ICE was targeting?

jmopinion

 

[Inthedetails]

It’s a $25 fine, which they wave if you bring your current conceal carry ID down to the station with the violation.

Or get shot 10 times by agents who don't even know if you are carrying the ID or not.

jmopinion

 

[Summerliz03]

Do you admit that ICE does indeed have the authority to apprehend illegal immigrants in the area?

Sure, as long as they follow the law to do so.

 

[Inthedetails]

Sure, as long as they follow the law to do so.

If ICE wasn't terrorizing the communities and was truly targeting the "worst of the worst," there would be no protests.

Nobody wants dangerous criminals in their neighborhood. Nobody would protest their deportation.

jmopnion

 

[PrairieWind]

Can you point to the piece of legislation that demonstrates that he was not legally carrying, please?

To me, it seems like that only law he may have broken (if you believe the Feds) was failing to carry a piece of plastic. They haven't demonstrated that not doing that made his carry of the gun unlawful.

MS 624.714

 

[tlcya]

quite frankly, I don't know that the victim in this case DIDN'T have ID on him.

I only know that the same agency that lied to us about him assaulting agents and having plans to unleash maximum damage upon agents CLAIMS that is the case. I don't find that agency credible. JMO MOO IMO

And if perchance he did not have his ID on him, there is a penalty under the law that covers such a misdemeanor infraction, and it isn't death.

 

[PrairieWind]

If ICE wasn't terrorizing the communities and was truly targeting the "worst of the worst," there would be no protests.

Nobody wants dangerous criminals in their neighborhood. Nobody would protest their deportation.

jmopnion

Mobs have descended on ICE agents attempting to arrest criminal illegal immigrants. Since the mobs don't know who ICE is after, they should not be interfering.

 

[Inthedetails]

quite frankly, I don't know that the victim in this case DIDN'T have ID on him.

I only know that the same agency that lied to us about him assaulting agents and having plans to unleash maximum damage upon agents CLAIMS that is the case. I don't find that agency credible. JMO MOO IMO

And if perchance he did not have his ID on him, there is a penalty under the law that covers such a misdemeanor infraction, and it isn't death.

The penalty is not only execution on the street, it's a smear campaign against his character.

Desparate grasping for a reason to justify what the agents did. My opinion.

jmopinion

 

[PrairieWind]

Also ICE is immigration enforcement, they have nothing to do with gun permitting or making sure US citizens are carrying with proper documentation. So seems like they may have overstepped their duties there, to put it lightly.

ICE is there trying to do their jobs and mobs keep interfering. If people just videoed from the sidewalk etc there wouldn't be a problem.

 

[Summerliz03]

Mobs have descended on ICE agents attempting to arrest criminal illegal immigrants. Since the mobs don't know who ICE is after, they should not be interfering.

But in this case, they did know who ICE was targeting. He went into the donut shop and the owner locked the door and ICE was unable to come in. At that point, ICE should have left the scene and gone to get a judicial warrant or whatever they may have needed to apprehend their target. That’s literally their ONLY job. They didn’t do that. They pushed over 2 women and then shot a man in the back.

 

[Inthedetails]

dbm

 

[Inthedetails]

ICE is there trying to do their jobs and mobs keep interfering. If people just videoed from the sidewalk etc there wouldn't be a problem.

So shooting a man 10 times after pepper-spraying and pinning him on the ground is justifiable?

I don't want to talk in circles, but get to the crux. Was the killing right?

jmopinion

 

[303gmf]

ICE is there trying to do their jobs and mobs keep interfering. If people just videoed from the sidewalk etc there wouldn't be a problem.

Mobs??
These are your fellow American citizens demonstrating, protecting others and witnessing facism that is terrifying to most of the planet of humanity

 

[Marantz4250b]

MS 624.714

Which part?

 

[kuromiiiilove]

If ICE wasn't terrorizing the communities and was truly targeting the "worst of the worst," there would be no protests.

Nobody wants dangerous criminals in their neighborhood. Nobody would protest their deportation.

jmopnion

And instead, 73.6% of those in ICE custody have NO criminal convictions. IMO they are targeting, not illegal immigrants, but immigrants trying to become citizens the ‘right’ way (by showing up at their hearings, etc. - https://www.axios.com/2025/12/23/trump-ice-green-card-interviews-immigration) because they are easier to track. They just want shock and awe.

https://tracreports.org/immigration/quickfacts/

 

[Marantz4250b]

ICE is there trying to do their jobs and mobs keep interfering. If people just videoed from the sidewalk etc there wouldn't be a problem.

It is not their job to summarily execute people who "interfere" with them.

 

[LAborn]

Of those 1.6 - 2.3% how many are the "worst of the worst" criminals we were promised ICE was targeting?

jmopinion

And the reality is immigration is a civil matter, not criminal. But for the sake of argument let's look at some stats Fact Check Team: Do illegal migrants commit more crime than American citizens?:

CATO Institute: Immigrants Are Incarcerated at Lower Rates Than U.S.-Born Citizens

To understand broader crime trends, the CATO Institute analyzed more than a decade of data from the U.S. Census and the American Community Survey.

Their 2023 incarceration rate findings:

• Native-born Americans: 1,221 per 100,000
• Illegal immigrants: 613 per 100,000
• Legal immigrants: 319 per 100,000
  
  

 

[sunshineray]

Of course. We can look at the end result and know that no one should have pulled the trigger. That much is obvious.

But, some see value in examining the events that occurred prior to the shooting in order to understand how it went wrong. Analyzing the events prior to the shooting does not equate with a statement that the shooting was justified.

A peaceful man recording. You see that man with a phone out standing still on the sidewalk and an aggressor gets up close and in his face, that agent backing off. The peaceful man then sees a peaceful fellow observer, a woman, being unnecessarily and violently pushed to the ground by an aggressor. He comes to her aid to help her up off the ground and becomes a target of all the agents for doing that. He's then swarmed by angry/violent agents, is disarmed and shot in the back, dead. There's an examination of the events. That's what my eyes saw clearly. AJMO