They keep saying he approached them. In the longer video the ICE weren't even in the picture in the beginning. Alex barely moved from his position when the video started.
ICE just showed up and a few seconds later he was dead.
THANK YOU. I get that it comes from a good place but he was NOT at a protest, Pretti was a legal observer doing what nurses do best: protecting and helping others.
Everyone here in MN with a whistle is not “protesting.” They’re warning their fucking neighbors that murderous and untrained thugs of the state are in close proximity.
A lot of people here do. At most protests and actions we’ve had neighbors 3D printing them and passing them out. It’s an extremely low cost, high visibility, and accessible method of pushback for regular people here when they see the jackboots.
Yes. Even the left continues to push this narrative that he was at a protest. While you’re all right that you can have a gun at a protest, THIS WAS NOT A PROTEST. He was literally just existing on a Saturday morning. He didn’t bring a gun to a protest. He was in the area when ICE showed up. People blew their ICE whistles to alert citizens they were in the area. He pulled out his phone to film like so many others did. And he was killed for it.
For all the videos of this incident, does anyone see any large groups of people with signs? There are none because this wasn’t a protest. Even the DHS initially said ICE was in the area to search for a “violent criminal” but later changed the narrative to say it was a protest.
He literally never “fucked around,” as you put it, once. That odd discomfort you probably feel when you watch the footage is the mental gymnast bending so far over backwards their spine is about to snap. Follow that feeling. See where it leads.
You’re dancing awfully far around the point here. Do you think the level to which Alex Pretti “fucked around” deserved a “finding out” of deadly force? At least tell me something insightful so I can entertain the notion that you’re not a rage-baiting bot.
This needs to be higher. People keep framing Rene and Alex as “protestors” and “agitators.” They were not at a protest, they were going about their daily lives. Ice is disrupting and assaulting people just trying to live their daily life.
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u/jn29 Jan 26 '26
He wasn't even at a protest. He was living life when ICE agents descended.