NRA on X - "“For months, radical progressive politicians like Tim Walz have incited violence against law enforcement officers who are simply trying to do their jobs. Unsurprisingly, these calls to dangerously interject oneself into legitimate law-enforcement activities have ended in violence, tragically resulting in injuries and fatalities. As there is with any officer-involved shooting, there will be a robust and comprehensive investigation that takes place to determine if the use of force was justified. As we await these facts and gain a clearer understanding, we urge the political voices to lower the temperature to ensure their constituents and law enforcement officers stay safe.” - @NRA"
Right Angle News Network on X - "BREAKING - Slowed down and enlarged video has been released showing Alex Pretti struggling with federal agents before what appears to be a gun falling from his possession just after the first shot is fired."
Greg Koenig on X - "Here is the thing about having a concealed weapons permit… The vast majority of the class time you are mandated to take in most states (including MN), is spent talking about *avoiding* confrontation. As an armed individual who is not a police officer, you have a duty to actively asses situations and make your highest priority to avoid them as best you can. The liability, emotional toll, and physical risk of getting into confrontations when armed is absolutely not in your favor. Setting out to interfere with police is absolutely not something on the mandate for a CCW holder. It is the exact *opposite* of everything taught in any one of the citizen lethal force legal trainings I have ever been in."
GIFFORDS on X - "HORRIFIC: Federal agents have shot and killed another person on the street in Minnesota this morning. They are terrorizing our communities with gun violence and killing our neighbors. It’s reprehensible and must stop."
Rob Romano on X - "You argued in court that the gun he was carrying is a "uniquely dangerous" "weapon[] of war, designed to kill large numbers of people quickly" that "pos[es] a threat to society":"
Rob Romano on X - "The executive director of Giffords retweets someone saying that "Alex Pretti was exercising his first and second amendment rights." Is the organization finally changing its long-held position that there's no 2A right to carry a gun while at a protest?"
Kris Cromwell on X - "Alex Jeffrey Pretti. White male born in Illinois. University of Minnesota graduate, medical professional employed at the US Dept. of Veterans Affairs, avid outdoorsman & dog dad, legal gun owner with no criminal record. Murdered by his government 01/24/2026"
captive dreamer on X - "The American left has completely adopted Palestinianism - everything is done to provoke law enforcement for a clip to create martyrs. None of these people actually care about this guy beyond how useful his corpse is in the fight against the Orange Man"
Liz Wheeler on X - "What we know: Leftist agitator harasses Border Patrol agents, violently resists arrest (a crime) and engages in physical altercation with federal law enforcement. If the law enforcement agent reasonably feared for his life, that’s justification for lethal force. It doesn’t actually matter if the man was armed or not.
What we know: Violent Antifa thugs who are domestic terrorists are now threatening to arm up and attack ICE agents. They *want* civil war.
What we don’t yet know: It appears (but is unconfirmed) that an agent removes one firearm from the violent agitator. It also appears (also unconfirmed) that the violent agitator reaches to his front as if attempting to draw a firearm from his waist.
What we don’t yet know: Did the violent agitator have more than one firearm? Did he realize he was disarmed (if he was)?
Again, what we know: Regardless of whether the violent agitator was armed or not, violently fighting law enforcement puts officers in danger and they will defend themselves with lethal force if they reasonably fear for their life. That is not scandalous.
What we know: The same Marxist leftists who burned down cities in the wake of George Floyd—while you were locked down during COVID—are now burning Minneapolis. This was never about one law enforcement incident. The left hates America, viciously lies to manipulate your feelings so you allow them to burn down our country.
What we know: The left maliciously lied about Renee Good, who rammed an ICE agent with her car. The left maliciously lied about the 5-year-old boy, who was abandoned by his father and mother and protected by ICE. The left lied about those incidents for a reason: To brainwash you into hating ICE because the left wants to flood our nation with criminal aliens to fundamentally destroy our country.
So forgive me, while we wait for all the facts, if I give the benefit of the doubt to courageous law enforcement agents defending our country over the diabolical violent anarchist communist thugs (and their deceitful leftist mouthpieces in the media) who all cheered when a short four months ago our friend was assassinated because he defended our country against these same deranged leftists."
AnechoicMedia on X - "In CCW class they tell you you have a heightened duty to avoid potential fights while armed, as a matter of legal and practical self-preservation. You don't want to raise the stakes to death in a fight, and you don't want to have to argue to a jury later about whether you provoked a fight while armed to bait someone into a self-defense situation. The anti-ICE protestors have inverted the duties of being an armed citizen (or a citizen in control of a lethal instrument, like a car in a traffic stop). They are deliberately creating situations of maximum ambiguity with a low level threat of lethal danger to bait law enforcement into making them heroic victims or martyrs. Being an "observer" of law enforcement, while also armed and getting into shoving distance with them, is just a bad idea, even if you think the law empowers you to play the "I'm not touching you" game with acts of defiance or minor assaults. It's also hazardous to the public trust to create a situation in which every protestor is regarded as a potential threat, and every cop seen to be on the edge of shooting someone. I can't tell from the video whether this guy drew his gun at any point in the struggle. Regardless, getting into a struggle with a cop while armed has a serious chance of ending in your death. Even if the resulting shoot is ruled unjustified or in error, you're still dead, which is only good for people who profit from chaos and mistrust (protestors who cause is bad). The shooting will not have been *unjust* or criminal, just a tragedy. It's also not proof of government oppression, because every government has to enforce laws, and you can't use the chaos of choosing to interfere with law enforcement as proof that having laws is unjust."
Jessica McBride | Facebook - "Liberals keep throwing Kyle R*ttenhouse in my face like they’ve come up with some great analogy. They have actually, but not in the way they think. So let’s unpack it. I wrote this to the comment writer who posted this screenshot in my thread. There is an analogy to Minneapolis, but not how you think. I covered Kenosha and was there 20 minutes before that shooting and 20 minutes after it, and I covered the trial in person, so I know what I am talking about. Kyle didn’t struggle with cops; he was attacked while protecting a business from people who hated cops (and the rule of law.) Kyle was there to protect a business, a car lot, because the local police and Democratic leadership refused to protect property and people and had a disastrous strategy of pushing agitators out of the courthouse park, where they were semi-controlled albeit throwing things at cops, and into the business and residential streets, where they were left to fend for themselves and allowed to fight, light dumpsters on fire and eventually destroy and burn down businesses without any pushback, including a used car lot owned by the guy who asked Rittenhouse to help guard his second business the next day. The cops were told by brass to stand around fire scene perimeters. We saw agitators burn a credit union down with no police reaction, and we interviewed the owner of another car lot, who fended off arsonists on his own with a gun. They torched the mattress store across the street. The police wouldn’t help. Similarly, the Minneapolis police leadership have ceded control of the streets. This is the central issue in Minnesota. Also the Democrat governor of WI took too long to get the National Guard there. He and the Lt Gov also released inciting anti law enforcement statements after the Jacob Blake shooting, which sparked the Kenosha riots and which leftists insisted was murder, calling cops and us etc. every name in the book. But guess what? A couple months later, the Democrat DA ruled it a legally justified shooting (Blake by the officer) despite the misleading video that got everyone riled up and falsely calling the officer a “murderer!” Even the extremely liberal AG Josh Kaul believed that shooting was justified, although he didn’t tell the public that until after Kenosha burned. So, frankly the analogy is accurate in that abject failure of Democrat leaders to protect the streets plus their shameful anti-cop rhetoric led to deaths.. just like Walz, Frey, etc now. Kenosha was a semi organized attack on the rule of law by agitators, many from out of state. It stopped when Trump sent the US Marshals in. There are also differences. R*ttenhouse was not trying to protest or get in the way of a law enforcement operation targeting an assaultive illegal immigrant for arrest like Pretti was, and he didn’t struggle with cops. He wasn’t protecting criminal illegal immigrants from capture; he was trying to stop a business from burning down and cleaned up graffiti. The first shooting happened when a convicted child molester named Joseph Rosenbaum chased him into a dark corner and lunged for his gun. This was on video. He wasn’t there to protest. There were peaceful protests during the day, but it went south at night and became a different crowd. Rosenbaum had been getting in people’s faces, getting in arguments, using a slur etc all night. Very unsavory person. The second shooting happened when a man jumped R*ttenhouse and tried to hit him over the head with a skateboard while another man tried to jump kick him and the third was a man who moved toward him with a gun. This is why he was acquitted. The media refused to report the criminal histories of those men. That case demonstrates what happens when government fails to protect property and people from outside agitators with no respect for the rule of law, incites the citizenry against law enforcers who are trying to uphold the rule of law, and loses control of the streets to unsavory agitators who descend on the city. Some of the arsons seemed fairly organized. There were people using walkie talkies and going door to door with Roman candles methodically lighting businesses and a Department of Corrections building on fire. There was more diversity among the agitators in Kenosha, though. BLM seems to be leaving the Minneapolis stuff to suburban Karens. The Kenosha riots had long-term political impact. Historically blue, the area elected a Republican county executive, DA, sheriff, mayor and County Board (for a time), and it has become a counter balance to the eroding Republican vote in the suburban belt counties around Milwaukee. Hope that helps. #Wisconsin #minneapolis #AlexPretti"
Aaron Rupar on X - "AOC: "How rich is it that she is saying showing up to the scene of a protest with a legally owned weapon should be grounds for a person's death, execution at the hands of the state, by the same party and administration that praises Kyle Rittenhouse.""
Wilfred Reilly on X - "Rittenhouse SPECIFICALLY avoided fighting police, because "c'mon - that means death, armed as I was, in an active riot situation," and has written and spoken about this over and over. After the shooting that did occur, he repeatedly tried to surrender - to decrease risk to himself, police, and even opps. You can like the Kenosha Kid or not, but this is all VERY well known."
Saint James Hartline on X - "The real story of radical, far-left Bernie Sanders/AOC supporter Alex Jeffrey Pretti. Pretti has an extensive history of far-left activism and hostility towards law enforcement. His ex-wife describes him as an individual who would confront law enforcement during protests. Pretti is a long time campaign donor via ActBlue to Bernie Sanders, AOC, Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar and Raphael Warnock. His own parents recently had a discussion with him about his involvement in protests and they specifically told him, "Do not engage, do not do anything stupid." Why would his parents tell him to not do anything stupid, unless he had a history of stupid behavior at protests. To put this in perspective, Pretti was a 37 year-old ICU nurse working for the VA in Minneapolis. Yet his parents in Colorado still felt the need to tell him to not do anything stupid. This indicates Pretti had a very serious anger problem and a very aggressive demeanor. The most telling aspect to Pretti's aggressive demeanor, his anger issues and his disrespect for law enforcement is found in the still photographs from the incident that led up to him being shot by an ICE agent. Firstly, Pretti brought an automatic weapon with two full magazines with him to protest against Federal ICE agents. Pretti was working for the Federal government at the VA. He fully knew this was irresponsible and unacceptable behavior on his part. The still photographs show Pretti was aggressive in confronting an ICE agent. It was Pretti who was getting directly in the face of a Federal ICE agent and pressing into the agent to the point that the agent put out his hand to prevent Pretti from moving closer to the agent. It was Pretti who was aggressively attempting to impede the legally mandated work of the Federal ICE agent. Pretti was not acting as an "observer". He was acting as an aggressive, angry Bernie Sanders activist while carrying an automatic weapon and two fully loaded magazines. Minneapolis has recently been the site of a mass shooting at a Catholic school/church that left two dead, in addition to the shooter, and thirty injured, including 26 children. The fact that a very angry Alex Pretti was roaming the streets of Minneapolis with an automatic weapon and two fully loaded magazines is a disturbing fact that cannot be over looked. His history of confrontation, anti-police hatred, his long history of protesting against law enforcement and his aggressive behavior all played factors in the events leading up to his fatality."
Oilfield Rando on X - "This is the moment most people are ignoring. It’s the moment Pretti INITIATES a physical altercation with a federal agent. You don’t have a second amendment right to do that and go about your day like nothing happened. It’s a big bright line being crossed."
bumbadum on X - "This is an understated reason on the importance of the Battle of Minneapolis. Underlying everything is that victory over Minneapolis is the first definitive blow against anarcho-tyranny. We simply cannot afford to live in a society where it is normal that the law cannot be enforced if the left doesn't agree with it. We cannot afford to live in a society where it's totally find to assault LEOs as long as it's politically expedient to do so. We cannot afford to live in a society where 100M+ people, vote in resounding plurality, for mass deportations, but suddenly it cannot be done because some schizo decided to driver her car into an officer or violently resist arrest and get's shot doing so. Any back tracking, letting go of the gas emboldens and enables the exclusive enforcement of the law against normal Americans, and anarchism and total freedom for those that hate normal Americans. Possibly the most important moment of our lives will be decided in that city."
This doesn't stop left wingers continue to lie
Alex Pretti, killed after intervening in a Federal Law Enforcement Operation - "Interrupting a Federal Law Enforcement Operation is a really bad idea, and it is a crime. Alex Pretti, was a Federal Employee (a nurse for the Veteran’s Administration) who was an active participant in a conspiracy by left wing activist groups to disrupt Federal Law Enforcement Operations targeting Illegal Aliens, many of whom are violent, sex offenders. He may have had a gun legally, but that does not give him a right to get in a confrontation with Law Enforcement. Having a gun legally and then wrestling with Law Enforcement is a really really bad idea. These are tense situations and when a Law Enforcement Officer identifies that the aggressor (which was Alex) has a gun, the situation can rapidly become a justifiable use of deadly force situation. Alex was an active member of a group which was organizing and communicating with the purpose of interrupting Federal Law Enforcement. The left is encouraging these provocative situations and they are getting people killed. Is this a strategy to deflect from the grotesque Somali fraud perpetrated by Governor Walz, Congresswoman Omar, and others? That is what it is looking like - creation of martyrs by the leaders of the fraud to change the topic. Useful idiots are useful. This is a mental health issue. It is intentional conditioning by Communist elements committed to toppling the American Constitution. They have plenty of willing candidates to condition to a dangerous, triggered state of mind. They do not care how many die to ensure they avoid responsibility for their industrial scale fraud."
Cam Higby ๐บ๐ธ on X - "๐จ ALEX PRETTI IN ON SIGNAL CONSPIRACY? In the highly organized anti-ICE rapid response signal group “Tom O’Hoch” says “WE suspect an ‘observer’ was shot” Observers are what they call ICE chasers involved in the signal network dedicated to hunting down agents and harassing, antagonizing or assaulting them. If Tom is correct, this situation is significantly worse than we initially thought."
Over the Target on X - "Jeanne Massey, who lives just one block away from Alex Pretti, said he was a member of their neighbourhood's 'Signal ICE' group chat, which is used to rapidly respond to reports of ICE agents in the area."
Cam Higby ๐บ๐ธ on X - "Alex Pretti was a member of the insurgency coordinated on signal. This is signal gate."
What The Left Doesn't Want You To Know About Alex Pretti, The Man That Border Patrol Shot - "The mainstream media seems to be uninterested in reporting on Pretti’s involvement with his local ICE Watch group. Similar gaslighting took place after the shooting of Renee Good after she attempted to run over an ICE agent with her car earlier this month. She was immediately portrayed as a scared “Minnesota mom” who had just dropped her son off at school and accidentally found herself in the middle of an active ICE operation. In reality, she was a committed anti-ICE activist who deliberately sought to obstruct federal immigration enforcement, and was part of her local “ICE Watch” group as well, with which she received training on how to obstruct federal agents."
Magoo PhD on X - "1) Agent (a) calls “Gun”.
2) Agent (b) unholsters his weapon.
3) Agent (a) disarms suspects weapon, which was in its holster.
4) Agent (a) accidentally discharges confiscated handgun.
5) Agent (b) shoots suspect in back"
KodiakVT ๐ป๐ช on X - "Recently released footage shows the suspect reaching for his holster after being disarmed. The agent that fired was reacting with out knowing he was disarmed. That shows lack of communication. But the action of the suspect still holds true to the law, which is intent. Reaching for his holster is the intent to do harm even if he did not know he was disarmed. Its not a bad shoot. Its a horrible looking one. Big difference."
Clearly, law enforcement are all part of a hivemind, which is why if one shoots a suspect after another has disarmed him, it must be an execution
Alan Ostergren on X - "A few thoughts on today’s Border Patrol use of force:
1. Any use of force, even when justified, is hard to watch.
2. Confronting LE physically is extremely hazardous. A person choosing that path will almost always lose. LE have training, tools, and numbers.
3. The videos show what happened from a distance and do not capture what each officer perceived in the handful of seconds this encounter took.
4. People offering uninformed video analysis frame by frame don’t contribute anything here. The legal questions turn on what the officers reasonably perceived in the moment. We aren’t watching an instant replay to decide if a receiver got both feet down with control of the ball.
5. Whether an officer’s use of force was a crime, subjects him to liability, or violated department policy are separate inquiries. There are overlapping legal principles behind each, but they fundamentally are not in lockstep.
6. People who swarm these situations yelling and blowing whistles greatly increase the danger and put LE in a situation where they can’t afford to be as patient with a person fighting them as they might otherwise. The swarming crowd increases the need for them to end the fight immediately rather than just tiring the guy out."
Even just watching the video I was damn annoyed by all the whistling. I can't imagine what it must have been like in person
Kim "Katie" USA on X - "Alex Pretti violently resisted arrest, attempted to stand up, and reached for his holster at the :27 mark. This is 100% on him."
captive dreamer on X - "What's totally wild about this entire situation is that people are constantly blowing high pitched whistles the entire time so these agents can't even hear each other or communicate. Everything is designed for the worst possible outcome."
Blake Neff on X - "That of course is the entire point and it’s part of what makes the manner of these protests so wicked. The whistles, the car rammings, the constant low-level violence while so many people are armed, all of it is designed to increase friction until a shooting happens."
John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte on X - "We don’t know all the facts yet, and I want no part of “CSI: Social Media,” but regardless of the investigation outcome, if you show up armed to illegally stop law enforcement from taking an illegal alien criminal off the streets and then illegally resist arrest, you’re not a hero. You’re a villain. You’re also a retard being used by the Democrat Party. Alex Pretti was a “pretti” stupid nihilist — more cannon fodder for the only state in the country where this is happening because insurrection Democrats are willing to see people die and hundreds of violent criminals released to cover up their welfare fraud and governing failures. On no moral plane is protecting violent criminals or impeding a lawful arrest anything but villainous behavior. But what else are we to expect from the villains who think ICE should’ve driven off and left a 5-year-old in the street alone? Or that it’s okay for crazed lesbians to run over people? Alex Pretti’s legacy is as a protector and defender of murderers, child rapists, drug dealers, and wife beaters. His legacy is a wicked cause. What a waste. What a dummy."
Elizabeth has no more fucks to give๐บ๐ธ๐๐๐ค๐ on X - "I think there is something missing from the discussion around the shooting of Alex Pretti yesterday that is very important we talk about. This man was a nurse. I have been a nurse in Minnesota since 2003. It’s time we have a talk about the way healthcare orgs and unions including MNA and SEIU are radicalizing their employees and members across Minnesota and have been for several years. The healthcare orgs, all of them, every single one, are pushing far left ideologies as part of employee training and annual required trainings reinforce it every year. MNA endorsed its members to go out and protest ICE. So did SEIU. Some journalist should really take the time to gather (by FOIA if necessary) the trainings that nurses are being given through their employers, and this isn’t specific to the VA because it’s where Alex worked. I promise you it is within every major health care org in the state. Get those trainings and get the communications by the unions, line it up with his social media, and I bet you will be able to create a near perfect timeline of how this man was radicalized. I’d put money on it."
Oilfield Rando on X - "Pretti initiated physical contact by shoving the agent away in the frames immediately preceding the one you conveniently picked with his hand up. This is no different than the "Hands Up Don't Shoot" false narrative. We see you. We know your methods well at this point. We're not accepting your lies anymore."
Christian Heiens ๐ on X - "Two people are dead and a third has been injured over the last three weeks in Minneapolis alone because Leftists cannot accept the idea that the other side gets a say in how this country is governed, even when they lose an election. They genuinely believe they can just do whatever they want, and if they engage in enough moral outrage and petulant acts of violence, they can force their desired outcome as a fait accompli. The “very dangerous for our democracy” crowd equates literal mob violence to democracy and have this constructed a metaphysics where they get to always be in charge because they’re on the “right side of history”. How can you share a country with these people? How can we possibly maintain a liberal democratic order with one side that refuses to accept the legitimacy of the other? We can’t."
Charles Haywood on X - "The Left always denies legitimacy to any actual exercise of Right power. Always. Sometimes, this is on the path to civil war (Spain 1936; Finland 1918). Sometimes they succeed for a long time (modern Europe). We are only seeing it now because the supposed representative of the American Right, the Republican Party, for decades has meekly agreed to never exercise real power. We see the Left increasing violence because a change in this status quo is intolerable to them."
