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

[Friday Fan]

Are they trained and experienced in controlling serious crime, though?

Look at the behavior of the agent who disarms Alex. He just walks across the street and then doesn’t even preserve the chain of custody, as we know. (Firearm not bagged.)

This they should have been trained to do?

They don't kill too many people down there. But they do apprehend criminals. However, when they do kill people, it often seems to be on a road in the middle of nowhere. I think one agent killed someone by shooting across the river.

 

[Strangeworld]

Great move forward to identify the ICE agents involved in the shooting. This pushes accountability, even public accountability forward.

It demonstrates to other ICE agents that the masks are temporary, eventual identification has a high probability of happening if they engage in unlawful behaviour IMO

There does appear to be an informal identification of ICE agents by some members of the public. This can be risky as it could be seen as doxxing or they may wrongly identify someone (as we've seen before in other cases).

However I understand the motivation for those who do it - they are reaching breaking point at the anonymity and how it appears to feed the decision-making and subsequent actions when they are performing their duties IMO.

I wonder how many would be going about their job in the same way if their faces were exposed. Some ICE agents IMO appear unfazed as they have been filmed without their mask on readily responding to the cameras. But there are likely many who hide behind the mask.

 

[zleuther]

Over 5 days since the shooting.

I'm 95% sure Hennepin County has the names of the two shooters.

I'm 70% sure there's a whistleblower.

"The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez."

Ochoa is a Border Patrol agent who joined CBP in 2018. Gutierrez joined in 2014 and works for CBP’s Office of Field Operations. He is assigned to a special response team, which conducts high-risk operations like those of police SWAT units.

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting

The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

www.propublica.org

https://twitter.com/x/status/2018071645538091083

Don't be surprised if it takes awhile for other media to confirm (rather than to just report "ProPublica has"). ProPublica is somewhat famous for its security/tech-methodology.

IMO they have received a whistleblower document and it has caught many by complete surprise. I predict we'll learn that the same document was sent to Minnesota authorities, prolly several days before it was sent to ProPublica

 

[zleuther]

tl/dr/imo = Blanche and Bondi BOTCHED yet another COVER UP

 

[Muddy K]

tl/dr/imo = Blanche and Bondi BOTCHED yet another COVER UP

@zleuther please forgive my ignorance, but could you translate "tl/dr/imo"? I mean I get IMO, but the other two? Thanks in advance.

 

[zleuther]

tl (post was) Too Long
dr (so) Didn't Read

sometimes better expressed creatively by inventing a hashtag, say...
#BlancheBondiBooBoo

 

[Friday Fan]

Great move forward to identify the ICE agents involved in the shooting. This pushes accountability, even public accountability forward.

It demonstrates to other ICE agents that the masks are temporary, eventual identification has a high probability of happening if they engage in unlawful behaviour IMO

There does appear to be an informal identification of ICE agents by some members of the public. This can be risky as it could be seen as doxxing or they may wrongly identify someone (as we've seen before in other cases).

However I understand the motivation for those who do it - they are reaching breaking point at the anonymity and how it appears to feed the decision-making and subsequent actions when they are performing their duties IMO.

I wonder how many would be going about their job in the same way if their faces were exposed. Some ICE agents IMO appear unfazed as they have been filmed without their mask on readily responding to the cameras. But there are likely many who hide behind the mask.

They dox everyone left and right, so the tools they're using are also available elsewhere.

 

[Inthedetails]

Some snippets, but the whole article is worth reading and is a reminder that it's not just protesting and vigils happening in Minnesota, but "roll up your sleeves and pitch in" work too. bbm:


In what is arguably the most widespread effort in the country to combat Donald Trump’s severe mass deportation tactics, tens of thousands of Minnesotans have played a role in defending their neighbors from ICE. They patrol in their cars and document agents, give rides to people who feel unsafe driving, stand outside schools at drop-offs and dismissals to protect children and their parents, deliver groceries and supplies to families who are staying inside for fear of detention, and crowdfunding legal aid or rent....

But the anti-ICE resistance in Minnesota is broad. For every person documenting ICE visible in videos now spread around the world, there are hundreds more behind the scenes working to keep their immigrant neighbors safe. ...

More people got involved in December when Trump started calling Somali people “garbage” and first flooded agents into town, emptying out Somali and Latino businesses. ...

“It’s hard to be like, they will keep killing us, and we must remain peaceful,” she said. “But we also know that the conditions that we’re organizing under require us to be exceptionally careful about anything that could be perceived as violence, even if it’s self-defense. And that’s an unfortunate reality of the moment that we’re in right now, where we’re not just fighting for the soul of Minnesota, we’re fighting for the soul of the rest of the country.” ...

These are not neighbors in theory; at this point, most know someone who has been taken by ICE, either directly or in their school or work networks, or people who have been detained for protesting or observing, or businesses they frequent that can’t safely open their doors, or families that haven’t left their homes in weeks. ...

Natalie Ehret sits in a minivan, a near-constant presence with her newly started group, Haven Watch, for the last few weeks, ready to give a coat, a phone and a friendly face to those released from detention, which includes protesters and immigrants.
She and her sons had gone to the building, and her son found two people outside in the cold without coats after being released. She had printed out know-your-rights cards to bring with them, but she’d thrown them all away – the rules seemed to be out the window. ...

“This city is literally being slaughtered for political sport.”

‘We’re fighting for the soul of the country’: how Minnesota residents came together to face ICE

Networks created after police killed George Floyd were reactivated to challenge Trump’s mass deportation policy

www.theguardian.com