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Murdered man identified

We now know a few things about the man killed by federal agents.

The man fatally shot by federal officers in Minneapolis this morning has been identified as Alex Jeffrey Pretti, according to sources familiar with the investigation.

Pretti, 37, has an address listed in south Minneapolis.

At a news conference, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said the man who was shot was a 37-year-old white man with no serious criminal history and a record that showed only some parking tickets. Law enforcement sources said Saturday their records show Pretti had no serious criminal history.

O’Hara said the man was a “lawful gun owner” with a permit. Records show that Pretti attended the University of Minnesota. State records show Pretti was issued a nursing license in 2021, and it remains active through March 2026.

So they’re killing law-abiding white people? This isn’t part of the white nationalist agenda, I thought.

Meanwhile, CBP, Republican Tom Emmer, and Donald Trump are blaming “rhetoric” for the death.

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  1. says

    Let me be clear about this: it is obvious to anyone who hasn’t murdered their conscience that by voting to fund all this evil, schumer, jeffries and the rest of the cowardly corrupt democraps are as guilty of these blatant murders as are tRUMP, noem, hegseth, rubio and the rest of the evil murderous barbaric narcissistic egomaniacal pile of excrement and his fascist and plutocratic magats.

  2. petesh says

    Trump et al are not entirely wrong in blaming rhetoric but it is THEIR rhetoric. They are trying to increase fear, and I wish the fascists would stop.

  3. raven says

    Meanwhile, CBP, Republican Tom Emmer, and Donald Trump …

    Emmer is the MAGA Federal House representative from a suburban Minneapolis district.

    Emmer, Fox NoNews :

    “The people you’re seeing in these videos, the vast majority of them I do not believe are from Minnesota. These are organized chaos agents, paid agitators. The vast majority of Minnesotans that are talking to me appreciate that law enforcement has arrived, and they are happy they’re there.”

    Emmer lies like all Republicans.

    None of those people are outside paid agitators.
    They are local residents defending their neighborhoods from right wing terrorists.

    Those Minnosotans he claims agree with him are probably two fascists from his district.

  4. cheerfulcharlie says

    Meanwhile Waltz is making sure Minnesota creates logs of such atrocities for ” future prosecutions.” Hello? Schumer? Jefferies?

  5. raven says

    Details are slowly coming out about this murder.

    New York Times:

    Videos analyzed by The New York Times contradict the accounts of Homeland Security officials, who said that the man approached Border Patrol agents with a handgun and the intent to “massacre” them. Footage of the encounter shows the man was holding a phone in his hand, not a gun, when federal agents took him to the ground and shot him.

    Federal officials posted images of a handgun they said the man was carrying. Chief Brian O’Hara of the Minneapolis police said the man who was killed, a 37-year-old American citizen with no criminal record, had a firearms permit. Open carry is legal in Minnesota.
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    Agents appear to have fired at least 10 shots within five seconds at Mr. Pretti while he was on the ground, according to a Times analysis of verified videos posted to social media. Chief O’Hara said investigators believe that at least two agents opened fired.

    The NYTimes in a profoundly insightful observation (this is sarcasm), points out that ICE lied about the murder and contradicted the events seen on videos.

    The guy had a phone in his hand, probably photographing or videotaping ICE, they grabbed his phone, threw him on the ground, and shot him at least 10 times at point blank range.

    This was murder.
    ICE are untrained, low IQ, nearly illiterate terrorists.
    I’m sure they were hired for exactly those reasons.

  6. raven says

    Meanwhile Waltz is making sure Minnesota creates logs of such atrocities for ” future prosecutions.

    They should.

    No Statue of Limitations for murder.
    They might not be able to arrest them tomorrow, but they have the rest of their lives to apprehend them.

    The other thing they have to do is release the names of the terrorists who killed Pretti. There is no such thing as secret police in the USA.
    It is all or should be public knowledge.

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