Mainstream media outlets rushed to paint Alex Pretti as a blameless ICU nurse gunned down by heartless Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis on Saturday. They highlighted his work caring for veterans and seized on video snippets showing him holding a phone. The New York Times ran with that angle, running the headline “Man Killed by Federal Agents in Minneapolis Was Holding a Phone, Not a Gun,” and claimed that footage captured Pretti only with his phone in hand, insisting that agents had no reason to believe he was armed during their encounter.
Media outlets are also quick to point out that Pretti held a valid Minnesota concealed carry permit and legally owned the gun, as if that absolved him for his actions against the Border Patrol agents.
Others point out that he had no criminal record, just traffic tickets.
This, they argue, proves he was an innocent victim, not an agitator.
But what the mainstream media isn’t telling you is that Pretti wasn’t just some random bystander.
According to Jeanne Massey, a neighbor, Pretti was part of a “Signal ICE” group chat of volunteers who organized a sophisticated operation to track ICE activity in real time and alert each other when agents were in the area.
These folks patrol streets, blow whistles, alert residents, and film operations to disrupt arrests.
That puts him not on the sidelines but plugged into the very network that coordinated responses to federal enforcement operations.
Mother Jones profiled the group just last week.
“A new activist twist on neighborhood watch is taking shape in Minneapolis and other cities under occupation by federal immigration agents: ICE Watch,” the outlet reported.
“As Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel drive around these cities, they’re often tailed by people in the neighborhoods. The idea is to make sure witnesses are present for any immigration arrest, to catch incidents on video, and to protest—or at least get the detainee’s name.”
The article described the “ICE watchers” as “passionate, determined, and just about everywhere—and ICE is getting frustrated.”
Massey and Pretti were part of the Kingfield neighborhood ICE Watch.
Massey spoke on behalf of her neighbors, saying, “Let me be clear: we are horrified, we are furious, and we are not going to pretend this is anything but what it is — another senseless act of violence carried out by federal agents in our city.”
“This is the third time in just weeks that someone has been shot during these so-called enforcement operations, and it’s devastating to see another life taken while our community is trying to stand up for justice and safety.”
Massey explained that she was one of many Minneapolis locals who flocked to the scene where the man was shot dead this morning.
She said that she was there when the ICE agents stormed the crowd and tear gassed the bystanders.
“People here are terrified, but we are also angry — angry that federal agents continue to operate with impunity, with lethal force, with no accountability,” Massey claimed.
“Our city is under siege. No one here feels safe, and that is unacceptable.”
The mainstream media seems to be uninterested in reporting on Pretti’s involvement with his local ICE Watch group.
Similar gaslighting took place after the shooting of Renee Good after she attempted to run over an ICE agent with her car earlier this month. She was immediately portrayed as a scared “Minnesota mom” who had just dropped her son off at school and accidentally found herself in the middle of an active ICE operation.
In reality, she was a committed anti-ICE activist who deliberately sought to obstruct federal immigration enforcement, and was part of her local “ICE Watch” group as well, with which she received training on how to obstruct federal agents.
Finally, here's how Dana Loesch put it:
Yes, you absolutely can carry at a protest.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is an anti-2A statist.
No, you absolutely cannot interrupt a federal op while armed and tussle with LEO.
That's how tragic things happen.
This isn't rocket science.
Hard to argue with that.
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by Tyler Durden
About one year ago, the Federal Bureau of Investigation Counterterrorism Division conducted an unclassified briefing warning of an emerging domestic threat vector described as "nihilistic accelerationism." The briefing was around the time of a series of attacks in which left-wing militants firebombed Tesla vehicles at showrooms. These attacks were largely in response to President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's crusade against the federal bureaucracy through DOGE-related initiatives.
By late summer, less than two weeks before Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a left-wing activist, we published an assessment titled "America Has a 'Transtifa' Problem." The report probably stunned most people, and they couldn't believe their eyes as the accelerating convergence of militant ideology and left-wing activism was beginning to unleash chaos.
Weeks later, we penned another note, titled "Planning War Against Fascists" - Socialist Rifle Association Boasts 10,000 Members... In our opinion, the profiling of these left-wing activists, from the Tesla Takedown fueled by dark-money funded NGOs (permanent protest industrial complex) and the militant left to anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles, to the political assassination of Kirk, only suggested to us that left-wing chaos would accelerate into the new year.
The nation has entered a dangerous period, as the turmoil in Minneapolis could be replicated in other sanctuary cities when warmer weather arrives.
Left-Wing NGOs Plan "Economic Blackout" Across Minnesota As State Becomes Testbed For RevolutionLeft-wing activists are reported to be operating shadow police-style networks on Signal to target federal immigration agents, possibly in coordination with local police and with individuals linked to Gov. Walz, in efforts to impede federal deportation operations. The clashes between activists and federal agents have already resulted in multiple shootings, including two fatal ones.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/transtifa-kyle-instructs-minneapolis-get-your-fking-guns
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara has said it does not matter if the latest killing of an ICE protester and far-left activist was legally justified.
In an interview with CBS host Margaret Brennan, O’Hara said the death of 37-year-old Alex Pretti was unnecessary because he was merely exercising his Second Amendment rights.
“It appears that he was present, exercising his First Amendment right to record law enforcement activity,” he explained.
“And also exercising his Second Amendment rights to lawfully be armed in a public space in the city,” he continued. “So, I think, very obviously, there are serious questions that are being raised.”
”I think the greater issue is, even if there is an investigation that ultimately proves that at the time of the shooting it was legally justified, I don’t think that even matters at this point because there just is so much outrage and concern around what is happening in the city.”
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Footage released after the incident showed that Pretti was attempting to wrestle ICE agents while carrying a loaded firearm.
“The officers attempted to disarm the suspect, but the armed suspect violently resisted. More details on the armed struggle are forthcoming,” the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement after the incident.
“Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, an agent fired defensive shots. Medics on scene immediately delivered medical aid to the subject, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.”
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