Alex Pretti Did Not Brandish Gun, witnesses say in sworn testimony

Sunday, January 25, 2026

Pair testify that Pretti did not hold weapon and was trying to help woman federal agents had shoved to the ground

Posted by retort at 09:48 AM | 53 COMMENTS | permalink

A person who said they witnessed federal agents shoot and kill Alex Jeffrey Pretti submitted a sworn statement in court disputing the federal government's account of the shooting. "I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong," the person said in the statement.[image or embed]
-- The New York Times (@nytimes.com) Jan 24, 2026 at 11:47 PM

Comments

Of course the man did not brandish a gun.

ICE fired ELEVEN shots at him after he was down.

Anyone know how many hit him?

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-25 09:58 AM

Anyone could be Next. Gun Rights are Optional. FREE SPEECH is Conditional and only if the Regime Approves.

Nazis.

#2 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-01-25 10:02 AM

Like Putin, you slobbering Russian stooge.

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-25 10:19 AM

"[the male nurse] was not brandishing a weapon when he approached federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday, contradicting a claim made by Trump administration officials"

The video I saw shows he's wasn't brandishing as he approached, but it looked like he was grabbing for something in his pants (on his holster side?) shortly after (40 second mark).

#4 | Posted by censored at 2026-01-25 10:40 AM

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command"- George Orwell, 1984

#5 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-01-25 10:43 AM

Anyone know how many hit him?

#1 | POSTED BY ZED

New Rulz!

All agents are required to fire at least one bullet into the body so no one will know or prove who actually murdered him.

#6 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-01-25 10:45 AM

Of course the man did not brandish a gun. ICE fired ELEVEN shots at him after he was down
#1 | Posted by Zed

Looked like they disarmed him and someone else shot him a couple seconds after. From the video, no telling what was going on when they piled on top of him, but his gun came from somewhere.

#7 | Posted by censored at 2026-01-25 10:48 AM

Looked like they disarmed him and someone else shot him a couple seconds after.

#7 | Posted by censored

That's what I see. It's not ambiguous.

#8 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-25 10:51 AM

Alex Pretti's Sig handgun has history of accidentally firing " offering possible clue to why Border agent shot him

bsky.app

That's quite a reach.

#9 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-01-25 11:06 AM

offering possible clue to why Border agent shot him

#9 | Posted by reinheitsgebot

Does it offer a possible clue as to why he was shot ten times?

#10 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-25 11:58 AM

Does it offer a possible clue as to why he was shot ten times?
#10 | Posted by Zed

You gotta clean the gun after it's fired anyway, so might as well empty the mag.

Do I Need to Clean My Gun After Every Use?

Yes, cleaning your gun after every use is highly recommended and, in most cases, essential for maintaining its performance, reliability, and longevity. Neglecting regular cleaning allows fouling, including powder residue, lead deposits, and copper shavings, to accumulate, leading to malfunctions, decreased accuracy, and potential damage to the firearm.
thegunzone.com

#11 | Posted by censored at 2026-01-25 12:27 PM

Just watched this analysis of the shooting, including some video I hadn't seen before.

Male nurse had no gun in his hands, and didn't draw his gun.

The agent shot him after he saw that the gun had been taken away, as it probably didn't even register with him that the guy was now disarmed even though he was looking right at it.

#12 | Posted by censored at 2026-01-25 01:39 PM

Jesse Berney
@jesseberney.com

There's a third video I just watched and it just confirms everything.

He died trying to help people being brutalized by agents.

His response to them shoving two women was to a) help the women and b) put himself between them and the agents WITH HIS HANDS UP.

At no point does he reach for his gun.

#13 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-01-25 01:55 PM

No need to worry- the shooter has left the state, will never be named and cannot be identified. The government terror squad will never give him up, lest thousands of ICE paid insurrectionists will go back to their jobs at the TSA. In the meantime the nonsense put forth by Totenkopf Bovino and Krusty Gnome has been debunked and police officers nationwide will be avoiding all calls from ICE, so as to avoid their position in their communities.

More Americans are going to die at the hands of ICE. Any ICE goons to die will set off what Der Dotard wants-unending martial law ...

#14 | Posted by catdog at 2026-01-25 02:32 PM

In the view looking up the street from the murder did everybody notice the ICE nazi clapping after they killed the poor man?

#15 | Posted by Wildman62 at 2026-01-25 03:10 PM

I was the first to notice that, drew attention to it and Jeff denied it was what it was.

You may have missed the fun yesterday

#16 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-01-25 03:32 PM

Pedo 47 Hosts Melanoma Screening After ICE Thugs Execute VA Nurse

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#17 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-01-25 04:10 PM

That's quite a reach.

#9 | Posted by reinheitsgebot

I'm gonna go with it's 99.9% bulls(*&.

Why? Because if the gun had discharged straight into the ground when the ICE s*&^bag was running away with it, you would have seen him and others in close proximity react because they would have all been hit by fragments of the bullet.

A bullet impacting a hard surface will explode into thousands of tiny fragments of hot jacket and lead (called spalling), which would have enough energy that close to puncture skin.

An instructor I know still has pieces embedded in his leg from when someone taking a private lesson accidentally discharged their handgun into the floor while reholstering his weapon. The instructor was standing a few feet behind him and took multiple fragments in the lower legs.

#18 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-25 04:40 PM

The 2nd Amendment is dead.

MAGA killed it.

#19 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-25 04:54 PM

Pedo 47 Hosts Melanoma Screening After ICE Thugs Execute VA Nurse

Why was Erika Kirk there when Vance wasn't? Surely she wasn't twerking her leather skirt on Barron?

#20 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-01-25 05:11 PM

Nobody celebrated Charlie Kirk's death more than Erika Kirk.

Literally. She had pyrotechnics.

#21 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-25 05:13 PM

#18 I'm pretty sure they did react... by pulling their triggers.

#22 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2026-01-25 05:18 PM

"witnesses say in sworn testimony"

According to Soofy, eyewitness testimony is rarely accurate.

My words: Especially fellow ANTIFA protestor testimony.

#23 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-01-26 12:38 PM

No gun. Holding phone. SIX ICE agents couldn't subdue a thin ICU nurse?! Fccking -------!:

No gun. Shot in the back of the head AFTER they taken his legally carried pistol. The murderous ICE agent shot him ELEVEN times, five IN THE BACK while he was already dead:

#24 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-01-26 04:57 PM

Poor Alex Pretti might have appeared to be a Jew to these murderous Sturmabteilung.

#25 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-26 05:00 PM

FIFA 2026 commences soon and California will host the 2028 Summer Olympiad.

Which foreigners are going to come to a dangerous sh*thole country with death squads running around?

#26 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-26 05:08 PM

I know this is common sense that evades Liberals but you don't show up at a hot protest with a loaded gun with a loaded magazine. He didn't deserve to die but if you had a brain don't show up at a "peaceful protest" with a loaded gun.

#27 | Posted by fishpaw at 2026-01-26 05:36 PM

#27 100% oops

#28 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-26 05:39 PM

Wrong info in this thread. It was not ICE, it was CBP.

#29 | Posted by Charliecharles at 2026-01-26 05:44 PM

Another oops for fishpud.

ichef.bbci.co.uk

#30 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-01-26 05:46 PM

"don't show up at a hot protest with a loaded gun with a loaded magazine."

One year into Trump's second term, and Republicans have turned their backs on the Second Amendment.

Is anyone actually surprised?

Eberly isn't surprised.

#31 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-26 05:49 PM

#31 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

Equivocation.

Looks to me like he's saying "Don't be an idiot", idiot.

Just because you have a governmental right, doesn't mean its always smart to exercise it. But especially when that right is designed to-be used against the State.

Is anyone surprised you don't understand that?

#32 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-01-26 06:04 PM

"Looks to me like he's saying "Don't be an idiot"

Looks to me like you didn't see the part where he said we do not get Second Amendment rights.

The reason you didn't see that is a simple reason that everyone here understands.
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

#33 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-26 06:08 PM

I know this is common sense that evades Liberals but you don't show up at a hot protest with a loaded gun with a loaded magazine.
#27 | Posted by fishpaw

Maybe you can link us back to where you posted the same s**t in a Kyle Rittenhouse thread?

#34 | Posted by justagirl_idaho at 2026-01-26 06:09 PM

"don't show up at a hot protest"

^
That also isn't a thing that happened here.

There's no lie Republicans won't believe. Another simple thing that everyone here understands, including Republicans.

#35 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-26 06:11 PM

Just because you have a governmental right, doesn't mean its always smart to exercise it. But especially when that right is designed to-be used against the State.

Is anyone surprised you don't understand that?

#32 | Posted by oneironaut

Your cult has spent decades hoarding guns in order to fight back against a tyrannical government.

Now we have government tyranny, and you switched to saying guns shouldn't be anywhere nearby.

#36 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-01-26 06:15 PM

"Just because you have a governmental right, doesn't mean its always smart to exercise it."

^
So you're saying the police killed him because he was armed?

#37 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-26 06:16 PM

#27 And the reply from "Mr. Common Sense"?

Crickets.

#38 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-26 06:24 PM

#32 A "governmental right"?

Better not let the coward boaz hear that!

#39 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-26 06:26 PM

#18 I'm pretty sure they did react... by pulling their triggers.

#22 | Posted by kwrx25

A weird way to react to hot fragments of copper and lead puncturing your shins...

And were there any easily verifiable evidence of any agent on that scene having a bleeding, active injury this administration would be milking it for all it's worth.

#40 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-26 06:28 PM

#27 Interesting how fishpud regurgitated, almost verbatim, what the Trump minions are saying on TV.

~~fishpud~~ Polly wants a cracker.

#41 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-26 06:30 PM

#27 | Posted by fishpaw

Nobody cares what your p^&&% a&& thinks.

He was legally licensed to carry that gun.

It's funny that you think the extra magazine indicates some sort of nefarious intent. Meanwhile, a significant number of carry holsters come attached to...a side car for an extra magazine.

Because carry a spare magazine is standard, basic protocol for most CCWer practitioners.

#42 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-26 06:31 PM

According to Soofy, eyewitness testimony is rarely accurate.
#23 | Posted by lfthndthrds

And ICE testimony is even less accurate.

#43 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-26 06:32 PM

#18 I'm pretty sure they did react... by pulling their triggers.
#22 | Posted by kwrx25

I'd love to know what pushed you over the edge to being a MAGA.
Or maybe this is just who you've always been and you've been clever enough to hide it.

#44 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-26 06:45 PM

"Just because you have a governmental right, doesn't mean its always smart to exercise it."

You have the right to remain silent.
If you were smart you'd exercise it.
But yer not. You'd rather be known as a fool.

Obviously.

#45 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-01-26 06:51 PM

And ICE testimony is even less accurate.

#43 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

Let's be honest. ICE "testimony" is a blatant lie.

And they know it.

#46 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-01-26 06:52 PM

#27 | Posted by fishpaw

He wasn't participating in a protest. He was walking down the sidewalk when he saw a womam who fell down after getting pepper sprayed. Alex Pretti was simply helping her get up. Then, an agent approached and got right in his face while Pretti was holding a phone, the other hand in the air. No weapon.

He was then swarmed by at least 6 agents who beat him.

When he was shot, they'd already taken the gun he was carrying in the small of his back.

#47 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-01-27 12:40 AM

PS FISHPAW

You had no problem with people carrying AR-15s when anyone who isn't on your side decided to flaunt them.

2nd Amendment rights, especially to your ilk, allows anyone to legally carry a weapon wherever and whenever they want to.

#48 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-01-27 12:45 AM

I know this is common sense that evades Liberals but you don't show up at a hot protest with a loaded gun with a loaded magazine.

But by all means, take your loaded pretend army rifle and a backpack full of ammo to IHOP. Rights, and all.

#49 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-01-27 12:46 AM

Alex Pretti's Sig handgun has history of accidentally firing " offering possible clue to why Border agent shot him

So after hearing ad nauseum that "it's not the gun" it is now the gun instead of the out of control brownshirts.

#50 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-01-27 09:38 AM

but you don't show up at a hot protest with a loaded gun with a loaded magazine

Things that make you go hmmm

#51 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-01-27 09:43 AM

He didn't deserve to die but if you had a brain don't show up at a "peaceful protest" with a loaded gun.

#27 | Posted by fishpaw

Unless you are MAGA.

Then it's ok right?

Right?

#52 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-01-27 10:45 AM

We warned you.

Surprise!

Liberals carry guns, too.

#53 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-01-27 10:46 AM

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