Eliminating the Protectors
Alex Pretti and Renee Good were executed because they had the temerity to care.
In Minneapolis Saturday morning, 37-year-old Veterans Affairs ICU nurse Alex Pretti was helping direct traffic while filming a federal immigration raid. Just down the street, a woman was being violently shoved by a federal agent towards Pretti and a second woman, who stepped between the agent and the target.
When the agent grabbed and shoved the second woman to the ground, Alex Pretti stepped between her and the agent with his hands raised. The agent and at least six more men pepper-sprayed Pretti in the face, tackled him, pinned him down, and pistol-whipped him.
At least four videos of the incident have surfaced. Each showed that a 9mm firearm that Pretti was legally carrying (MN is a concealed-carry state) was taken from his holster by agents while he was face down at the bottom of the pile. Pretti never reached for his gun or made any other aggressive moves.
Nevertheless, several seconds later, at least one Border Patrol agent fired into Pretti’s prone body multiple times—killing him on the spot.
Agents rifled through the corpse immediately afterwards, yelling “Where’s the gun?”—seemingly unaware that the weapon had already been taken. The agents then, as they did after the federal execution of Renee Good, fled the scene.
Slander as Policy
Despite the clear facts and probative video, the Trump regime, in a carbon copy of its attempt to control the narrative after Good’s murder, immediately leapt to falsely label Alex Pretti an “assassin” and a “domestic terrorist” who was there to “massacre” ICE agents.
This is a reflexive, defamatory lie—the pathological need of the regime to project its own violence onto its victims. Alex Pretti was an American citizen exercising his rights—because he gave a damn. He was murdered for caring.
He cared about people deeply and he was very upset with what was happening in Minneapolis and throughout the United States with ICE, as millions of other people are upset,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong, so he did participate in protests.
Here is an affidavit from one of the observers who was five feet from Pretti’s killing.
Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times. I don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
Eliminating the Protectors
Both Alex Pretti and Renee Good were executed by the federal government in broad daylight while doing the most American thing you can do: peacefully protesting.
They were targeted, not because they were doing anything wrong. They were targeted because they were doing something right—and brave. The federal agents who assaulted and murdered these citizens were not protecting anyone, including themselves; they were eliminating the protectors.
The brittle, insecure masculinity of Trump and his regime treats compassion as weakness and empathy as suicidal. But it’s not just that their own psychology doesn’t allow for it. Caring is their Kryptonite.
The primary thing the federal government fears is peaceful protest, civic action, and mass expressions of empathy. They cannot acknowledge that anyone would speak against their violence, their lawlessness, and their incompetence out of civic duty or simple humanity. Doing so would break the delusion.
Everything has to be a conspiracy against them, or everything falls apart at once.
Election Insurrection
The federal assault on Minnesota has nothing to do with Somali fraud, or immigration for that matter. The regime picked a target, aimed the gun, and pulled the trigger. The goal from day one has been to create the conditions for more federal violence, a crackdown, and the suspension of the Constitution.
It’s no coincidence that Stephen Miller keeps repeating the word “insurrection” and “domestic terrorist.” Finding an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act has been his goal since the first Trump term.
To make the real motive as clear as possible, apparently Attorney General Pam Bondi has sent a letter to Minnesota officials which promises that ICE will leave and stop murdering their constituents if they just let the federal government cheat in the state’s election.
I think the best way to honor Alex Pretti—and Renee Good—is by listening to Alex Pretti’s own words about one of his patients—a fallen hero at the VA.
“Today, we remember that freedom is not free. We have to work at it, nurture it, protect it, and even sacrifice for it. We never forget and always remember, our brothers and sisters who have served, so that we may enjoy the gift of freedom. So in this moment, we remember and give thanks for their dedication and selfless service to our nation in the cause of our freedom. In this solemn hour, we give them our honor and our gratitude.“
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Trump is indirectly a murderer. and should be charged as such. but he wont.
His only chance to stay in power , now , is to cancell the elections. because no one will accept this as being OK. and he will lose a lot of support from his base of F*CK WITS for this murder, Murdering a man is not the same as shooting a woman, a mother, in the face and saying. " cop that Bitch " that bought on a lot of sympathy, But now they've shot a guy in cold blood for trying to defend a woman, Killing a man like that resonates with men , much much more. They could be next. By rights the momentum from this should bring him down, He should be arrested imediately.
And charged with Murder , Theft , Pedophillia, War Crimes. why isnt this being done ?
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More disgraceful responses from Noem and Miller. They have no justification for this murder. Kristi Noem lied at her press conference. As Governor Walz said, "The federal government cannot be trusted to lead this investigation. The State of Minnesota will do it."