On January 24, 2026, 37-year-old US citizen Alex Jeffrey Pretti was shot multiple times and killed by United States Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The incident was the third shooting by federal officers in Minneapolis in seventeen days, and occurred amid mass protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The Department of Homeland Security claimed that Pretti approached agents with a handgun and the intent to "massacre" law enforcement; a review by The New York Times of available video found him holding a cell phone, not a gun, in the moments before the shooting.[1]

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[–] 47 points 9 months ago (2 children)

the public execution of Alex pretti. FTFY Wikipedia

should add ...and subsequent blatant lie about the details of the event.

Thanks foxnews

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    There was judgement or trial only violence. He was killed. There was no authority overseeing the death. There was unplanned violence that killed an innocent person trying to do good. He was killed helping someone cross the street.

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  • [–] 44 points 9 months ago
    [–] 18 points 9 months ago

    I thought this talk page comment was pretty cool:

    Get off your highly partisan POV-pushing labeling of him as a "domestic terrorist". You will need reliable sources to verify any claims that Pretti fired a shot, obstructed operations, resisted arrest, or any of the other drivel that you have mentioned here. That's enough, and you are violating WP:BLP by even mentioning any of this unsourced nonsense here.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    They're going to shoot up the whole town and claim they did it to themselves.

    Also THIRD Shooting incident? Did someone die between Alex and Renee that I'm not aware of?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Jesus. They killed Pretti Good people. When will this end?

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    [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    The Public Execution* of Alex Pretti

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