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

[Friday Fan]

We can offer interpretations.

The question is about the legality, though.

Here is what ICE agents do to cars. Note: this is a US citizen, so obviously they had no warrants for his arrest and just profiled him. He is ethically Mexican, US citizen and voted for Trump.

Who paid him for the car repair and unlawful arrest?

Can the way ICE treat the cars be even compared to what Alex did?

But again, we may have different opinions, we are talking about the legal side of the situation.

Look what they did to his vehicle! Pepper sprayed and restrained. Also the way they restrain people these days can injure them.

Someone I know was afraid her young adult kids would get arrested at a protest and didn't want them to get a record, so she walked up to the cops and said "Take me instead". Boy, they threw her on the ground, rubbed her face in the gravel, threw her in jail for several days and injured her back.

She was expecting something like the 70s, where they politely handcuff people.

 

[Stunned]

When it is suggested that a Nurse, or anyone, not attend to a women shoved to the ground and instead needs to walk away to avoid immediate death from government agents this is no longer America.


all imo

It's a sign that our humanity is indeed starting to decay.

 

[Stunned]

And?
I worry about my nephew, as well as myself while out observing our millions of taxpayer dollars spent terrorizing humans in our communities

I'm right there with you! I'm so proud of the next generation in my family for getting out there, but now more terrified than ever. Gotta couple of smart guys I worry about. IMO

 

[rogue ant]

They actually push quite a lot of people. Push them, pepper spray them, tear gas them. For showing up, standing on the sidewalks, and letting their thoughts be known.

So many reels out there that everyone can easily find, filmed by bystanders, showing this aggressive behaviour by ICE against protesters and observers. Against people using their 1st amendment rights.

imo

That's because they aren't "officer's". They're goons with a gun and a badge, although the latter might just be a toy from a cereal box. I mean... Dean Cain is one, sooo

 

[rogue ant]

When it is suggested that a Nurse, or anyone, not attend to a women shoved to the ground and instead needs to walk away to avoid immediate death from government agents this is no longer America.

Sobering thought.

 

[SouthAussie]

It's a sign that our humanity is indeed starting to decay.

There are religious organisations trying to retain the humanity ... while also giving people steps of what they can do.


“Our faith tells us how to live in this world in a way that follows the teachings of Jesus…seeing Jesus in our fellow human beings,” Ms. Gaona says. “And if you look at it that way, there’s nothing scary about it. You’re just trying to live the best life that you can and then trying to support others with solidarity…so that [they] can also live the best life that they can.”

Mr. Gromek has been gratified to see how our times have been met by both laypeople at the parish level and among the bishops and priests who are leading the church. He notes that “Taken, Broken, Shared: Catholic Witness Today,” a 75-minute Zoom vigil and call to action on Jan. 28, drew 3,500 lay Catholics and clergy together to share stories and to strategize a way ahead.

In the coming weeks, many more opportunities for citizen involvement are being planned by Catholic organizations involved in social action efforts to address peacemaking and the administration’s mass deportation effort. Among them, Pax Christi USA will be organizing resources and tracking events through a new campaign, STAND—Solidarity to advocate for neighbors’ dignity.

A Catholic guide to resisting the ICE crackdown

As the nation veers into policies on war-making and immigration that disturb many, average Catholics are stepping up into activist roles to voice their concerns and assist their neighbors.

www.americamagazine.org

 

[JennieM]

Homeland security secretary did not speak at cabinet meeting​

IMAGE SOURCE, AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

President Trump's cabinet meeting has just ended. Unlike previous cabinet meetings, not every department leader spoke today.

At the beginning of the meeting, Trump joked about how boring these meetings can get, and said he wanted to keep today's short.

Neither Trump nor the handful of cabinet members who spoke mentioned the ongoing unrest in Minnesota. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem did not speak.

None took questions from the media, unlike at previous meetings.

Live: Tom Homan says Minnesota operation will be 'safer, by the book'

Tom Homan has been deployed after two people were shot dead by federal agents in the city in less than a month.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[rogue ant]

“It’s rather absurd that the names are not public already,” says Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison about the lack of information on the federal officers who shot Alex Pretti.

"I've been a lawyer for 36 years and I've never seen anything like this before."

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/politics/video/agellisontownhall

 

[JennieM]

The Minneapolis revolt tells us this: even in Trump’s America, the people have power too​

Aditya Chakrabortty

[…] power doesn’t belong only to the powerful. Just look at the disarray inflicted on Trump, head of the world’s sole superpower, by Minneapolis, a city with barely more people than Croydon.

After months of resistance by Minnesotans, the president’s immigration chief, Gregory Bovino, has been forced out of the city. Trump’s head of homeland security, Kristi Noem, faces either the sack or impeachment. Key members of his team are tearing strips off each other.

[…]

Trump doubtless expected the same in the icy midwest. Instead, his troops faced a nonviolent fightback. Tens of thousands across Minneapolis and Saint Paul turned out week after week to protest, even when it was so cold, wrote one reporter, that he couldn’t take notes: “The ink in my pens had frozen.” Despite the state executions that have been all over the world’s news, despite being teargassed and assaulted, ordinary Minnesotans still turned out.

When others went into hiding rather than face the immigration gangsters, their neighbours made sure they got food and supplies. And yet others acted as ICE-watchers, monitoring the violence and barbarism of armed thugs whose salaries come from US taxpayers. Many have kept on their civic duties despite the killing of Renee Good, a poet and mother who ICE employees shot in the face then called a “ ”; and Alex Pretti, a nurse executed by a gang of seven agents, apparently for holding up a phone.

These two ordinary people were murdered by their own government, then slandered by it. Their corpses were tagged as “domestic terrorists”. Their fellow Minnesotans have been attacked as an “organised illegal insurgency” by Joe Lonsdale, a cofounder of Palantir. […] But an insurgency this is not, not when mums tooting whistles are battling masked men toting guns, paid up to $50,000 just for signing up to ICE; not when a smartphone camera is wielded against teargas; or when hecklers are handcuffed and hauled off.

[…]

As [EH Carr] wrote, “The historian belongs not to the past but to the present”. All of us will one day form the raw material of history; we will all belong to the future. That should change how we act now.

The Minneapolis revolt tells us this: even in Trump’s America, the people have power too | Aditya Chakrabortty

After months of community resistance, the president backed down. Leadership from below succeeded when politics as usual failed, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

www.theguardian.com

 

[LAborn]

My opinion, had the agents ignored Alex and walked away after losing their target, instead of approaching bystanders and pushing them to the ground, he would still be alive today.

When I read the account, all I could think of is it's like a pack of wild dogs transferring aggression from one victim to another--whoever was closest and within eyeshot. jmo

 

[LAborn]

My opinion is law enforcement is taught not to escalate situations by not using force against people who are not under arrest. But these officers did the opposite of that. I can’t help but wonder why that is.

They are, and good LE de-escalates. Some cops can go their whole careers without ever drawing their gun.

 

[Mo Thuairim]

“It’s rather absurd that the names are not public already,” says Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison about the lack of information on the federal officers who shot Alex Pretti.

"I've been a lawyer for 36 years and I've never seen anything like this before."

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/politics/video/agellisontownhall

That's the thing about secret police. No accountability. No transparency.

 

[Hexe]

I would like to know what transpired to cause an ICE agent to push her, why or how it came to be she was in that situation to begin with, and most importantly, if at that moment the agent was perceiving a threat.

Watch the videos. Or, here, you have neat snap by snap analyse. You can see that the woman Alex later helped was, with another civilian, speaking to the agents that were getting into their car. Look at the agents. They have their backs turned to the civilians. That's not how a threatened person behaves.

That interaction enraged one agent so much he started shoving both women from the road. Look at his posture, it's not defensive, it's not wary of the actions of potentially threatening people. It's fully on aggresive and enraged.

And again, dealing with the protesters is not a duty of the border protection agents. All the law enforcement services are taught to deescalate situation, which was absolutely not what that agent did.