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

[sapphire blue]

I don't see any coercion in the letter, just our AG addressing issues related to fraud in Minnesota along with illegal immigrants and their removal according to U.S. law.

You don’t see the ‘give the feds what they want and we will go away’ tactic?
The AG is conflating issues IMO to ramp up the anti immigrant rhetoric, legal and illegal.
Removal according to us law, except that’s not what’s happening at all, people are being taken without due process.

It’s very reminiscent of the 1930s, people didn’t want to see what was happening right in front of them, that is until they were also targeted. If we fail to learn from history we are doomed to repeat it.

The long term damage and destruction to democracy and to US citizens is going to leave loads of psychological issues all round.

 

[sapphire blue]

Protestors do not have the right to trash peoples homes & yards & cause such a massive disturbance. Are they going to pay for the damage? No, of course not. That comes out of my hard earned money I actually work for. ICE has every right to be here. Like I said, people are not understanding how many ILLEGAL CRIMINALS are actually here! Especially the people who are not even a resident here! It's been an ongoing serious problem, people have been concerned about safety here for years, not to mention the fraudsters who started taking advantage of the pandemic funds.

How many illegal immigrants are in Minnesota? What percentage of the population are they?

Isn’t Minnesota ranked in the top 10 safest states of the USA? Concerns about safety can often be perceived safety risks, rather than demonstrated ones, and quite often they re shaped by public anxiety around immigration, fear of others.

https://www.sctimes.com/story/news/2025/10/22/is-violent-crime-up-or-down-in-minnesota-see-what-the-numbers-show/86834486007/

 

[Kaley Smith]

IMO If you’re in public recording from a safe distance, fine. If you are closing distance, refusing to move back, stepping into agents, blocking , surrounding, etc. you are not observing , you are interfering and you are going to get treated like a threat. The conceal carry angle is the dumbest part of the debate . A permit does not give you authority. I am very much pro 2A. It doesn’t give you a hall pass to “help” by inserting yourself into a legal federal chaotic enforcement operation . Federal agents will not play intent games. They will treat “I’m helping “ as noise if your body is in the wrong place , you are closing distance and your hands are doing the wrong thing.

Mr. Pretti made horribly foolish decisions that day. I would NEVER encourage anyone I love to take part in this nonsense. IMO

Maybe you need to re-watch the videos. I think you're seeing what you want to see, not what actually happened.

 

[Charlot123]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2015479691147149747

The words of the 44th POTUS

 

[JennieM]

10:52 PM

Alex Pretti honored at Basilica of St. Mary service​

Clergy members at the Basilica of St. Mary honored and prayed for Alex Pretti and his family on Sunday.

For 10 years, Father Harry Tasto says he worked alongside Pretti as a chaplain at the Minneapolis VA hospital.

"He was known for his kindness and gentleness to patients," Tasto said. "So don't please pay any attention to the vilification from our national leaders."

Clergy invited those at Sunday's service to take home a candle in honor of Pretti.

Katie Bartlet doesn't go to church at the Basilica; she's not even Catholic, but she felt the pull to come.

"It spoke to me to come and bring a candle for Alex," she said.

By Jason Rantala

Judge grants restraining order against DHS after Border Patrol kills Alex Pretti in Minneapolis

U.S. District Court Judge Eric Tostrud granted a temporary restraining order against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Saturday, barring the department from altering or destroying evidence in the killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in south Minneapolis.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[Charlot123]

Is Minnesota a swing state?

Technically speaking, it is not. It has voted blue at least since 1984 as the runner-up against Ronald Reagan was Walter Mondale, a Minnesotan. And before, they voted blue except for Nixon, and before that, they voted blue after Eisenhower.

But, during some elections, the margin has been low. I'd say, that in cases of "charismatic" Democratic candidates, they are "definitely blue", and in cases of "uncharismatic ones", the situation is more complex.

I believe that Michael Moore described the mood and the mentality of his state the best in his 2016 article "I think Trump is gonna win". That year, Minnesota voted for Clinton, but with a very narrow margin.

I lived in Iowa, just below Minnesota, and I can extrapolate, because both are post-industrial Midwestern states. People there are kind, hardworking, and - in sharp difference from Massachusetts or Washington, both states that i consider "mine" - having the concept of "a neighbor". While in MA people will help a lot if you ask and in WA, people are just but tend to help "causes" more, for a Midwesterner noticing when your neighbor is struggling and actively offering free help is the norm. And it is sincere.

So IMHO, this is the worst place to send ICE into because the sense of "neighborhood" is very strong there, and if their neighborhoods are in disarray, it hurts them a lot.

Just my personal opinion.

 

[CrimeDawg123]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2015562744993350135

 

[zleuther]

https://archive.is/20260126071630/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/01/26/misfire-of-victims-gun-fatal-ice-shooting/

The Telegraph examines a possibility that "as the agent runs away with Mr Pretti’s 9mm pistol in his right hand, a gun shot can be heard in the footage posted online...that in turn may have “spooked” the others"

 

[zleuther]

...The Telegraph's frame from witness vid

 

[CrimeDawg123]

We now have statements condemning the shooting from both former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. Surely we will hear from George W. Bush soon.