Because much commentary is now being posted about the killing of a man in Minneapolis today by armed and masked federal agents, and because my previous thread about this today has grown long, I'm starting a separate thread about this now.
"There is some dispute now whether that was ICE or Customs and Border Patrol, wrestling an individual to the ground. He appeared to be motionless."
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
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A recording with Jen Rubin and Mary McCordJennifer Rubin (The Contrarian)
"One of the agents then pulled a gun and shot him repeatedly. That individual has now been taken to the hospital and pronounced dead."
Mary McCord then says that though all the information is not yet in,
"Just based on the video that I saw, I saw, I don't know, six or eight agents on top of a man on the ground and then shots fired and the man prone on the ground."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
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"And that just looked like a flat out execution. I mean, even if the man was trying to struggle, even if as early... early reports from DHS are that he had a gun.
There's just no way that he could have, with that many people on top of him, really be a threat that would justify that kind of use of force."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
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"If local and state law enforcement aren’t going to step up and do the job they swear an oath to do—protect our communities, the very people they’re supposed to serve—then someone else has to. Because while they stall, federal goon squads are roaming around in broad daylight, abducting and killing innocent people, and pretending it’s normal."
~ Oliver Kornetzke
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
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"It isn’t. And if nobody pushes back, it will never stop. …
This is not a call to violence, not a push for bloodshed, and not about taking the offensive against anyone. This is about self-defense, deterrence, and preservation, plain and simple."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
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Warning that video footage of this killing is graphic and disturbing, Prem Thakker and Asawin Suebsaeng say,
"A swarm of agents mob an individual, pushing him to the ground. After the person is surrounded, agents then shoot him multiple times. The shots appear to continue as the individual lies motionless on the ground."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
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It is the third shooting by Trump’s immigration agents in the Minneapolis area in recent weeks, and comes after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good.Prem Thakker (Zeteo)
"The Star Tribune reports that federal agents attempted to order local police to leave the scene where the man was shot and killed by federal agents earlier this morning. According to the report, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara refused to comply with that demand and instead instructed his officers to remain on site and preserve the scene."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
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"The Minneapolis police chief has ordered his officers to preserve the scene, despite ICE reportedly ordering them to leave. ICE has arrested witnesses and transported them to the Whipple building."
~ Rebecca Schoenkoepf
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
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"A crowd of protesters has formed; ICE has unleashed tear gas at the scene."
~ Status Coup
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
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We are LIVE ON THE GROUND from the scene of ANOTHER ICE shooting; we do not yet know the condition of the person shot.Status Coup News
"Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: 'I just saw a video of more than 6 masked agents pummeling one of our constituents and shooting him to death. How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end?'"
~ Aaron Rupar
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
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"ICE must leave. Now. That is the only response that matters right now."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
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"I don’t have all the details yet but it appears that Trump’s goons have murdered another American in Minneapolis.
This is the third shooting involving federal agents in the city this month, including the murder of Renee Good, 37, on Jan. 7.
The person who was killed is believed to be a 37-year-old man, an American citizen who lived in Minneapolis."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #murder
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Trump's domestic army continues its rampage. We must fight back.Robert Reich
"The old, wretched status quo is thrashing violently as it dies.
It’s time we grab a pillow and suffocate it to death.
Minneapolis is suffering one wave after another of brutal attacks. Children kidnapped. People beaten. Two murders that we have now witnessed with our own eyes."
~ Jared Yates Sexton
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #murder
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It's time to stop participating in this awful system and bring it to its kneesJared Yates Sexton (Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton)
"The man fatally shot by federal officers has been identified as Alex Jeffrey Pretti, according to sources familiar with the investigation who spoke with the Minnesota Star Tribune. Pretti was 37 years old and had an address listed in south Minneapolis."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #murder
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"At a news conference, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara confirmed the victim’s identity and said Pretti had no serious criminal history. O’Hara stated that law enforcement records showed only minor infractions, including parking tickets. Law enforcement sources reiterated Saturday that Pretti had no known violent or serious criminal background."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #murder
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"On January 24, 2026, 37-year-old U.S. citizen Alex Pretti was repeatedly and fatally shot by United States Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States."
~ Wikipedia
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #murder #AlexPretti
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"The incident was the third shooting by federal officers in Minneapolis in seventeen days, following the killing of Renée Good and the shooting of a Venezuelan man Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, and occurred amid mass protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #murder
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"An analysis by The New York Times found that several agents wrestled a man onto the sidewalk, one officer struck him with an object, and then ten shots were fired within five seconds."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #murder
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"The Trump regime has murdered another citizen. And now they’re lying about it. The cover-up is in full swing. But we have the footage. From multiple angles. We’ve heard from multiple witnesses. And we have cameras on the ground, thanks to our partners at Status Coup."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #murder
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Video evidence shows DHS is lying. Again.Ben Meiselas (Meidas+)
"Multiple witnesses were on scene. One described it to us as “an execution.” Within minutes, Minneapolis police moved to secure the area. They were blocked by federal agents. According to the Star Tribune, federal officers attempted to order local police away from the scene. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara refused and instructed his officers to preserve the site."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #murder
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"That refusal mattered, because video evidence from multiple angles began circulating almost immediately. The footage shows at least ten shots fired. It shows the victim’s hands appearing empty. It does not show him using a weapon, reaching for one, or threatening anyone. It shows a man shot to the ground and then shot again.
Federal officials quickly claimed the man threatened them with a gun. The videos do not support that claim."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #murder
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"If the man was armed, the footage suggests the weapon was holstered. That is consistent with what Minneapolis police have already said publicly: the victim is believed to have been a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry. At no point in the available video does he brandish or point a weapon."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #murder
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"Video analysis disproves the entire Trump regime’s narrative. Freeze frames show agents firing as the victim recoils. Other frames show an agent pressing a gun into the victim’s chest while shots continue. The man’s hands remain visible and empty. The claim that this was a necessary response to an imminent threat is contradicted by the visual record."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #murder
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"The video is, you know, is hard to explain other than as a cold-blooded, you know, execution, just as you described it. They pepper sprayed him directly in the face, which we see them constantly doing as well, took him to the ground, and he was on the ground, and then he was shot,and then they backed off and shot him like a half dozen more times."
~ Mike Zamore
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #executionr
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A recording from Jennifer Rubin and Mike Zamore's live videoJennifer Rubin (The Contrarian)
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"He [i.e., the federal agent doing the killing] emptied a clip into this guy who was lying on the ground already. I mean, it was just absolutely horrific, and I caution people against watching the video without being emotionally, you know, kind of prepared for it."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #murder
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"In graphic video now circulating on social media, six federal agents appear to wrestle the man to the ground in front of the New American Development Center. One of the agents hits the man three times with what appears to be a firearm."
~ Madison McVan & Michelle Griffith
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #murder
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Video taken by bystanders shows agents wrestling the man to the ground and beating him before firing multiple shots.Madison McVan (Truthout)
"Bystanders are surrounding the group and filming on their cell phones.
Over 10 shots can be heard in the video, but it’s unclear if more than one agent fired a weapon."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #murder
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"Open carry is legal in Minnesota. The videos I have seen do not support the idea that he was trying to shoot ICE agents.
We also know that ICE tried to prevent local law enforcement from securing the scene and collecting evidence. ...
The simple truth is that none of this would have happened if Trump had not sent thousands of out-of-control, masked agents to terrorize people in an American city."
~ Dan Pfeiffer
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #murder
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Some fights are worth having no matter the outcomeDan Pfeiffer (The Message Box)
"Zeteo spoke with two doctors who knew the victim to shed light on the man whom federal agents senselessly killed on Saturday.
'He was just a super nice guy, a super capable nurse,' Dimitri Drekonja, a doctor who knew and worked alongside Pretti, told Zeteo. 'And we are in a worse place for him being killed.'”
~ Prem Thakker
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #murder #AlexPretti
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Two doctors share their memories of Alex Pretti, a nurse who is the latest victim of Trump’s violent immigration raids in Minneapolis.Prem Thakker (Zeteo)
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"Bystander videos depict a gruesome scene in which Pretti was swarmed by a mob of agents, who shot him repeatedly. Multiple shots appeared to have been fired at him when he was already lying motionless on the ground."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #murder #AlexPretti
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"Pretti worked as a nurse in an intensive care unit. In 2017, he was hired to support a Veterans Affairs medical trial, later moving on to work in critical-care nursing, according to the doctors who brought him on board. …
Dr. Aasma Shaukat, who co-led the trial with Drekonja, echoed the sentiment. 'He was just so sincere and very kind, just a sweet young man and eager to learn,' she told Zeteo."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #murder #AlexPretti
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"Again we have an ICE killing in which the Department of Homeland Security gets a story out first which, on its face, appears to describe an armed civilian in the process of committing a massacre of federal law enforcement officers. …
As now happens 100% of the time, these early DHS narratives are willfully absurd and don’t survive contact with abundant video evidence emerging from the scene."
~ Josh Marshall
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder
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"My best current understanding is that the dead man, Alex Pretti, 37, was legally carrying a licensed firearm and was at the scene in some sort of observer status or perhaps there to place himself between ICE agents and those they were trying to assault or arrest. Video evidence seems to show clearly Pretti never brandished his firearm and actually used clear non-confrontation signals in his engagement with ICE agents."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder
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"What’s more, video evidence appears to show that ICE agents had already confiscated Pretti’s firearm in a scuffle before shooting him multiple times. …
The goal is submission and the strategy to achieve that goal is escalation. Miller, Homan and the leaders of ICE and CBP believe that they’ll come out on top at every step up the ICE/CPB escalation ladder."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder
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"They’re communicating this to the protestors and activists and the communities in which they’re operating: the more you resist us, the worse it will be for you and eventually you’ll have to back down. …
They believe public resisters will eventually have to knuckle under. So they’re happy to keep escalating. Because they have more and bigger guns and eventually those who oppose them will have to give in."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder
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"Remember dont bring a gun to a protest, unless its an illegal fire arm and you cross state lines and your name is Kyle. Then totally bring a gun, so we can call you a hero. 😒"
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder #KyleRittenhouse
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"Another day, another dead Minnesotan. Shot in the street while getting pinned down by masked federal thugs. And Donald Trump and Kristi Noem and Greg Bovino wasted no time putting out narratives that don’t at all square with the videos we’re seeing. But who you gonna believe? Them, or your lyin’ eyes?"
Matt Labash
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder
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Let the hard rain of justice rain down upon themMatt Labash (Slack Tide by Matt Labash)
"RIP, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an intensive-care nurse by trade. Intensive-care nurses, not typically being he most war-like people. And who the goon squad is already slandering as a 'domestic terrorist.' Yeah, I’m for stopping domestic terrorism, too. Which is why someone should arrest Stephen Miller, who takes demented pleasure in waging war on his own people. While prompting his corrupt boss to do the same."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder
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in light of today's events, i want to share a story i was told during a study abroad summer in italy, where i took a class on the rise of fascism.
the picture below is the site of a mass grave. captive partisans were brought here by nazis, forced to dig, and then executed on the spot.
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