The footage of the fatal shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, said one journalist, “shows that the final act of his life was trying to help a woman who was being physically assaulted by the masked agents who would then kill him.”

In the original video of the shooting of a man in Minneapolis, identified by the Minneapolis Star Tribune at 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a woman in a pink coat was seen in the background filming the incident with her phone. 

Drop Site News obtained footage that appeared "to come from the direction of the woman in pink filming from the sidewalk" and showed the shooting at a closer distance than the footage taken from inside Glam Doll Donuts. 

In the video, the shooting victim, dressed in a brown coat and pants, is seen filming a federal agent with his phone. He's then seen guiding another person toward the sidewalk as the agent forcefully shoves a third person to the ground.

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[–] 325 points 7 months ago* (12 children)

Alex Pretti was murdered.

Say it with me. This was no “shooting.”

And it’s going to keep happening again and again.

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  • [–] 198 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Alex Pretti was murdered by ICE

    Renee Macklin Good was murdered by ICE

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    [–] 136 points 7 months ago (16 children)

    The very minute I read some synopsis on a news alert on my phone and saw that it was claimed that "he had a gun" I disbelieved that.

    Even if he had a gun and he's on the ground and tried to get up? That justifies shooting "roughly 10" times?

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  • [–] 240 points 7 months ago* (14 children)

    He did have a gun.

    He was being a responsible citizen, exercising his 2nd Amendment rights with a holstered weapon, in compliance with Minnesota law.

    Gestapo thugs tackled and beat him, unholstered and removed the firearm from his side, and only then did they unload 9 bullets into him as he laid unarmed and beaten on the street.

    But as you'll see, and as anyone who's ever paid attention to the 2A fascist assholes will know, they suddenly become hyper anti-gun the moment its someone they don't like exercising their rights.

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  • [–] 59 points 7 months ago (13 children)

    That sure sounds like something the NRA should have an opinion about

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago

    The NRA started the anti-gun movement in California alongside Reagan. In response to the Black Panthers carrying while copwatching as they did similar shit to the Black neighborhoods in the 1960s.

    The NRA will back it no problem. They have before.

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    [–] 124 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Kristi Noem lying on TV this very moment about Alex Pretti and painting him as terrorist. And then claims the investigation will be performed. It seems to me they performed investigation 5 seconds after they put like 15 rounds into Alex. This shit needs Nuremberg type trials for entire current USA administration starting with Trump, all his hyenas and all the agents that murdered Alex and Renee. USA is a lawless wild west. They aren't enforcing laws, they are playing Judge Dredd and interpret the laws pretty much randomly the way they feel, usually ending with innocent people dying. And then they continue lying about it. This is fucked.

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  • [–] 25 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Not to be overly Comic-book-guy but:

    Judge Dredd is never portrayed killing someone for his own gratification in 2000AD. He isn't racist, or to my knowledge, even a classist.

    Yes, he is a 'judge' in an ultra violent society that devolves execution, due process and investigation to the officer on the beat.

    But no one is above the law as far as he concerned not even the judiciary. There probably isn't a president of the US that he wouldn't have arrested for their crimes, and quite a few he'd execute for their crimes against humanity. Trump wouldn't have made it to this millennium.

    These ICE thugs are just cowardly fascist scum. Law is just a weapon of suppression to them. For Judge Dredd the law was sacred and the only thing preventing humanity from eating itself in his post apocalyptic future hellscape.

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  • [–] 88 points 7 months ago (46 children)

    ICE murdered that man.

    From here we have two paths:

    One: Civility is eventually restored to government and these people are tried and convicted for their crimes.

    Two: All out civil war.

    We will not let ICE, Trump or any of these Nazis complete their agenda.

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  • [–] 29 points 7 months ago

    One: Civility is eventually restored to government and these people are tried and convicted for their crimes.

    Respectfully, that's an outcome, not a path to get there.

    The MAGA shitheads won't just give up and let themselves be prosecuted. They won't stop appointing judges, they won't stop cheating on elections, they won't stop manipulating media, and they won't stop harassing, intimidating, and killing their opposition until someone makes them.

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    [–] 65 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Something I was just made aware of: after shooting and killing Alex Pretti, ICE officers then stood back and shot him 5 more times.

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    [–] 64 points 7 months ago* (12 children)

    I've read that Alex was a veteran. So he probably participated in overseas operations. He survived abroad against whoever he fought for his country, only to be executed in said country, in his own town, by what is probably a frustrated basement dweller without any more accomplishment in his life than insulting kids on CoD and gooning ten times a day.

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  • [–] 37 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

    Cite that claim. I'm not saying your wrong, but to my knowledge, he was a nurse working at a VA medical facility, rather than a veteran himself.

    Edit: Found a brief biography: https://wisconsinwatch.org/2026/01/man-killed-by-border-patrol-officer-in-minneapolis-was-an-icu-nurse-who-grew-up-in-green-bay/

    Boy Scouts, choir, high school, college, research scientist, nursing school, avid bike rider, new Audi. No mention of putting in 4+ years on a military career.

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    [–] 58 points 7 months ago (36 children)

    Everyone remember to keep getting more people onto Piefed and Lemmy (Voyager for Lemmy) along with Session, Signal, XMPP, Mastodon, Stoat, Pixelfed, etc etc. The more of us on here the better

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    [–] 57 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    Doesn't matter to the MAGAts, they will just disobey the evidence of their eyes, as the party tells them.

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    [–] 47 points 7 months ago* (5 children)

    This is just straight up murder. He shot man in the back a dozen times with no threat to his safety at all, this is AFTER they gang beat him to the ground for no reason. This is unacceptable.

    Best video I've seen:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1qm2vi0/heres_your_proof_with_the_moment_of_truth_isolated/

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  • [–] 42 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    They are trying to scare you from exercising your 2nd amendment rights.

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    [–] 41 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Everyone should have a gun when dealing with ice

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    [–] 36 points 7 months ago

    He saved that woman's life, but I cannot imagine how she feels right now. I would be sick with survivor's guilt.

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  • [–] 35 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Do not believe anything posted by doj or their affiliates

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    [–] 35 points 7 months ago

    Looks like they are the ones starting a fight.... and escalated... and murdered. Sigh. A complete set-up to fail. Stay strong over there.

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  • [–] 35 points 7 months ago (28 children)

    Republicans are hunting Americans. It's Republicans vs. America.

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    [–] 33 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    They shot him many times so he couldn't testify later against them. 1 shot, then a bunch for the kill.

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  • [–] 31 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    We need to see the video he was making, you know, the one to hold the ICE agents accountable, the one they killed him for

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    [–] 31 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    "What the f*ck did you do?"

    NEEDS to be embraced as a slogan with the same passion as "Let's Go Brandon"

    It's the perfect Anti-ICE, Anti-Trump, Anti-Capitalist message.

    It calls back to the decades of intelligent well educated Americans saying this was an inevitability given the obvious path we've been on.

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    [–] 25 points 7 months ago (12 children)

    Sooooo is it just Minnesota that’s going to oppose this gestapo shit? Or nah.

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  • [–] 34 points 7 months ago*

    Alternately: after choosing to openly defy her voting base and refusing to budge on Israel, is Kamala happy now?

    The DNC wrote a report on why the lost the election and chose not to release it. I wonder why. It's almost like shitting on your base isn't a winning strategy.

    And before anyone thinks otherwise, I did not sit out during the election. So take it somewhere else.

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  • [–] 32 points 7 months ago (13 children)

    Are the DNC fucks who refused to run a quality candidate or a quality campaign because that would upset their corporate donors happy now?

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    [–] 23 points 7 months ago* (11 children)

    How many more people have to be murdered before Congress act?

    How many more innocent civilians have to die at the hands of the government before the elected representatives of those people take action?

    The USA is descending into an authoritarian state and Congress is letting it happen.

    They could end it whenever they want. This on them as well as criminals perpetrating these heinous crimes.

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    [–] 23 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    People should do this ICE monitoring with swarms of FPV drones. That would really drive them crazy, plus you could stay a safe distance away.

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