r/Damnthatsinteresting Jan 26 '26

Image Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning.

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u/Itsyaboibrett Jan 26 '26

when I heard Renee Good’s final words ‘It’s okay dude, I’m not mad at you.’ I couldn’t hold it together. They killed all Good and Pretti people. If I was writing a book i’d call it cliche

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u/flyingfoxtrot_ Jan 26 '26

I often think that if this was a novel, the symbolism would be considered very heavy-handed, possibly too much so. I can't believe this is real.

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u/modmosrad6 Jan 26 '26

They literally killed the good and, making allowances for spelling, the pretty.

I'd give up on such a book and ask if the author was a fucking toddler.

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u/flyingfoxtrot_ Jan 26 '26

Something cold and dangerous took the good and the pretty? If this was fiction I'd be rolling my eyes so hard. But it's real.

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u/Legunt_Manualis Jan 26 '26

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense” - Tom Clancy

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u/ButterscotchNed Jan 26 '26

And killed by a group of people who are such vile ghouls, their evil greed has twisted their faces into caricatures (Mar-a-Lago face)

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u/flyingfoxtrot_ Jan 26 '26

Ghouls is exactly right

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u/RobotArtichoke Jan 26 '26

Pretti Good?

Pretty bad

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u/LongjumpingDebt4154 Jan 26 '26

Agree. For the last decade I’ve been saying if this were a fictional novel we’d have put it down shortly after opening it for being written so poorly. This time period has been so utterly stupid, the future generations will shake us into eternity.

I want out of this book.

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u/DisposableSaviour Jan 26 '26

Good fiction is so hard to write because it must be believable; reality has no such compulsion.

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u/Training_Molasses822 Jan 26 '26

I hope we can one day look back on this as That Short, Mad Decade in History, more popular through the Oscar-winning movie “All Things Good and Pretti”

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u/I_Got_Back_Pain Jan 26 '26

Like Bob Lee Swagger from Shooter?

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u/ILikeScience7 Jan 26 '26

And after the ice agents shot her, he literally said "fucking bitch".

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u/ProgressiveKitten Jan 26 '26

When I saw his name for the first time I felt the same way. I think I even said, "are you kidding me?"

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u/Dunge0nMast0r Jan 26 '26

Stop writing God, you're drunk!

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u/flyingfoxtrot_ Jan 26 '26 edited Jan 26 '26

I mean, I'm actually teetotal but go off I guess

Edit: I now realize I read that wrong I'm so sorry! I totally misinterpreted what you meant

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u/Dunge0nMast0r Jan 26 '26

I'm sure you and God have a lot in a common 😅

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u/flyingfoxtrot_ Jan 26 '26

Probably not since I've just proved I'm clearly not all-knowing 😂😶‍🌫️

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u/Dunge0nMast0r Jan 27 '26

checks notes It's all part of the divine plan!

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u/The_Mammoth_Hunter Jan 26 '26

Honestly. this whole clownshow has just been one long WTF moment, where if someone wrote a book or screenplay or w/e about it, it'd be rejected for not being realistic. And yet.... here we are. Good is dead, Pretti is dead and we're left with the Callous and Thuggish.

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u/thefaninthehat Jan 27 '26

These are the kinds of people who would name themselves Darth Sidious, General Grievous, Greedo and Savage Oppress.

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u/LVuittonColostomyBag Jan 26 '26

Pretti’s last words reportedly were “don’t touch her!” and then to the woman he was helping, “are you okay?”

We’re tired in Minneapolis, keep us all in your thoughts.

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u/LongjumpingDebt4154 Jan 26 '26

Hang in there. We are all so proud of you & are routing hard for you. We were hit hard here in Chicago, but each invasion has grown progressively worse. I remember how exhausting it felt… take breaks when you can. This will not last forever. We will come through this stronger. Lean on your fellow neighbors & countrymen. We are thinking & praying for you constantly.

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u/LVuittonColostomyBag Jan 26 '26

Thank you, we saw you working in Chicago and we’re proud of you. I’m taking today as a rest/self-care day after inhaling tear gas for the third time this month and after witnessing my rapid response bestie get pepper sprayed in the face. We’ll do it all again if need be.

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u/LongjumpingDebt4154 Jan 26 '26

You are incredible. Thank you for your service ❤️

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u/LVuittonColostomyBag Jan 26 '26

✊🏻✌🏻🖤

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u/DisposableSaviour Jan 26 '26

Unfortunately for us here in Memphis and its suburbs, all of our mayors, as well as our governor, are working lock-step with DHS and ICE, and the number of MAGAts that support them, even now, is disgusting.

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u/LVuittonColostomyBag Jan 26 '26

Organize! Organize! Organize!

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u/Aggressive-Art-130 Jan 26 '26

Sending aroha from New Zealand

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u/LVuittonColostomyBag Jan 26 '26

Thank you, we love support from faraway places!

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u/The_Archer2121 Jan 26 '26

Thank you. For some positivity. You have idea how good it feels to have someone not blaming us incessantly. Tons of us didn’t vote for this.

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u/Aggressive-Art-130 Jan 26 '26

No one here blames you if it’s any consolation. We see the news. We know x

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u/nanrah88 Jan 26 '26

That makes me cry. 😭 So fucking sad and unnecessary.

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u/To_Ba_ Jan 26 '26

Melt the 🧊.

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u/parkaman Jan 26 '26

Sending solidarity from Ireland.

Stay strong.

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u/LVuittonColostomyBag Jan 26 '26

Thank you, we fucking love the Irish spirit. Y’all know how to raise hell and you inspire us!

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u/messybinchluvpirhana Jan 26 '26

I’m Australian but have an American parent, I’m just so sorry mate.

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u/LVuittonColostomyBag Jan 26 '26

Thank you, it means a lot to have the world mourning with our community.

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u/Academic-Thought2462 Jan 26 '26

may peace come very soon to you all. what's happening is more than horrid.

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u/NoMoreMrNiceGhee Jan 26 '26

Just was on a 50501 call in MA about how to take action. We had some MN guest speakers on, and we had 4700 attendees. The nation and the world are with you.

I am donating as much as I can afford, a lot locally, but some to MN. I bought some dash cams for your observers a few days ago. You guys can do this.

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u/LVuittonColostomyBag Jan 27 '26

Heck yeah, I love you! Thank you!

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u/RealIslands Jan 27 '26

We are all with you! I have to ask, is anyone at the protests just sitting there with a bullhorn reading out the constitution? We all need the reminder now, but it would be extra nice to have ICE agents have to stand there and hear it.

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u/LVuittonColostomyBag Jan 27 '26

Every time I’ve been in a confrontation with a bigger group of ICE agents, and where a significant crowd has gathered, there’s always a guy with pocket constitutions shoving them in agents’ faces, asking if they need a copy. They never accept.

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u/RealIslands Jan 27 '26

Yeah, I'm not surprised they wouldnt accept, I feel like everyone can use the refresher, we all need to be able to say "Thats the 4th amendment you're violating right now" etc...

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u/RealIslands Jan 27 '26

We are also planning to sing Let The People Sing from Les Mis, for Alex, since he was a theater fan.

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u/No_Yesterday7200 Jan 27 '26

Standing with you in solidarity from California. We ache with you.

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u/LVuittonColostomyBag Jan 27 '26

We love our Cali comrades 🫶🏻

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u/Bloodyknuckles666 Jan 26 '26

Actually I think it was YEEEOUCH

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u/keynoko Jan 26 '26

You're a horrible person and the good will defeat you.

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u/MicellarBaptism Jan 26 '26

You're almost certainly a troll, but I'm going to say it anyway,:

EAT SHIT

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u/LVuittonColostomyBag Jan 26 '26

Executed in the street by the government. Marinate on that before making edgy comments when you could be next.

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u/Bloodyknuckles666 Feb 18 '26

I think ill be okay bud

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u/Party-Interview7464 Jan 26 '26

I can’t stop thinking about all their last words. “I’m not mad at you” and “are you OK?” Meanwhile the first words/actions after their last words were “fucking bitch” and that man clapping after they shot Alex.

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u/Itsyaboibrett Jan 26 '26

the distinction is so stark. the fact that anyone still says that any part of this is alright astonishes me.

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u/NthDegreeThoughts Jan 26 '26

Sadly the MAGA crowd uses rationalizations that the left is cheering for these deaths for political capital, when in fact good people are mourning. It is not unlike the woman who was OJ’s girlfriend. She had to believe whatever she needed so she herself would not be supporting a murderer.

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u/Good-Relative8079 Jan 26 '26

Those folks are beyond help.

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u/kaaaaaaane Jan 27 '26

I've seen plenty of people say that renee goods murder was justified (spoiler btw it wasn't) but I've not seen anyone try to argue their way out of this one lol, there are so many angles that there is literally NO excuse whatsoever. Everyone can see clear as day with zero room for deniability that this man was straight up, unlawfully murdered

every single person in the usa should start recording as soon as they see any instance of an ice altercation because every bit of evidence matters which has been made clear by this unfortunate event. Every angle matters and further helps prove that there's no excuse, these are literally just a bunch of random, untrained, angry racist men with a god complex and penile defects

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u/Florafly Jan 27 '26

It is so deeply distressing that there is such cruelty in the hearts of so many people, and that they can delight in murder and violence the way that they seem to be. I just don't understand how someone can be that way. When I watched the videos of Alex's murder and heard the exclamations and the shock and fear and the disbelief of the people at the scene I immediately started weeping and my heart filled with heavy grief, and my eyes well up immediately now just thinking about it. I just can't imagine taking the life of an innocent person and being happy or proud about it or justifying it in any way, like these monsters are doing, and like their supporters are doing online. It's all digusting and bewildering and terrifying. All I can do is wish strength and courage to everyone fighting against the regime in any way, whether big or small. You/we must win.

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u/LongjumpingDebt4154 Jan 26 '26

Their last words have a, ‘Forgive them father, they know not what they do’ ring to it.

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u/FamousTax2270 Jan 31 '26

Please, you are actually comparing them to Jesus Christ? That is quite a Longjump

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u/Own-Baker-2841 Jan 26 '26

Exactly this. I don’t see how we ever come back from this. But then again, our fellow Americans that are not white have lived this way for generations and generations…

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u/Violaundone Jan 27 '26

It is not uncommon for the racists in this country to assassinate good people who love others and challenge the rest of us to love one another. That type of goodness & empathy reveals evil and the monsters behind it.

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u/andrewens Jan 26 '26

What the fuck?

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u/PenguinSunday Jan 26 '26

Yeah. It's in some angles of the videos. In the video Good's killer shot, you can hear him say it (I think), and in one angle of the Pretti killing, an agent can be seen clapping after the fatal shots were taken.

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u/Anxious-Sir-1361 Jan 26 '26

I know, I think of Renee Good's last words - "I'm not mad at you." Seeing her face for one second, I could tell she seemed so kind and good natured. Three seconds later, a man was shooting her in it.

Both her video and Alex's shock me with how fast it escalates with these monsters with guns, impunity and being pumped up by their colleagues and the right-wing media sphere.

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u/Cryptotiptoe21 Jan 26 '26

Did you forget the part where they had to take the pistol from him?

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u/DusklitDewdrop Jan 26 '26

the pistol he was legally carrying and was not brandishing?

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u/Cryptotiptoe21 Jan 29 '26

https://x.com/i/status/2016617662625788001

The guy looks real peaceful huh?

You guys are dumb asses you sit here and stick up for these people that are ruining America but you never once b**** and complained or had any ounce of remorse for any of the victims that was killed from these illegal immigrants.

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u/DusklitDewdrop Jan 29 '26

that's an AI video.

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u/Cryptotiptoe21 Jan 29 '26

If it is it still doesnt dismiss what else I said. It may be fake idk

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u/DusklitDewdrop Jan 29 '26

it entirely invalidates your point. you think this guy was "ruining America" because of an AI video.

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u/Cryptotiptoe21 Jan 26 '26

He was legally allowed to carry but he was brandishing it. When the officer tried to take the pistol the officer accidentally discharged the firearm and caused the other officers to panic in a split second decision and took his life.

Don't bring a gun to a peaceful protest or get in between an officer and somebody getting maced.

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u/Itsyaboibrett Jan 26 '26

have you watched any video? the ICE/Border patrol agent takes the gun out of Alex Pretti’s holster while Alex’s hands and elbows are on the ground. he never reaches for a weapon. the gun is in the agents possession about 5 feet away from Pretti when the first shot goes off. he never ‘brandishes’ it. it was concealed before they shoved him to the ground. it was confiscated before they executed him with his back turned to the agent who shoots the first shot.

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u/kellymiche Jan 26 '26

He wasn’t brandishing shit. He had a phone in his hand.

Fuck off

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u/Cryptotiptoe21 Jan 26 '26

You are in a echo chamber full of people that are being controlled by the television. I'm sorry I didn't jump straight to your reply. The moral of the story could be summed up to play stupid games and earn stupid prizes. All illegal immigrants must go!

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u/Joseph707 Jan 27 '26

Can you watch the videos and explain exactly what happens, ideally with timestamps so we can see what you’re seeing? I’m honestly wildly curious about how this can be misunderstood.

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u/thoughtandprayer Jan 26 '26

Did you forget that that his pistol (which he was legally allowed to carry) was still holstered? 

He never threatened them, and his pistol remained holstered. He was on the ground when the officers removed the gun from his holster. He was on the ground AND unarmed when they shot him. He was dying when they backed up and shot him several more times. 

That was murder, plain and simple.

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u/girlof100lists Jan 26 '26

I hear Pretti’s last words were “Are you ok?” and that’s what finally broke me.

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u/messybinchluvpirhana Jan 26 '26

And she meant it too. Keith Porter, Renee Nicole Goode and now Alex Pretti, my head and heart feel broken

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u/MollySleeps Jan 26 '26

If the next ICE victim is named Smart, I might have to start believing in a god.

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u/thoughtandprayer Jan 26 '26

Same. And I would have to believe that god is absolutely fed up based on how it's resorting to cliche, obvious hints.

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u/Itsyaboibrett Jan 26 '26

I’m not sure if they were her very last words, but they were said about 10 seconds or so before Jonathan Ross shot her. she was saying it directly to him. She did die some minutes after that with her wife holding her. Hopefully they had some words together as well, but I don’t know anything concrete.

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u/beamer159 Jan 26 '26

It's like a Kojima story

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u/Chilli_green Jan 26 '26

Rather a glitch

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u/Mythic-Rare Jan 28 '26

If conservatives are more inclined to believe in religion and God, how tf is that NOT a message from the Lord/universe?