BBC Confirms Authenticity of Viral Video Appearing to Show Alex Pretti Kicking Agents’ Car 11 Days Before Shooting
Footage published on Wednesday appeared to show Alex Pretti kicking an immigration agent's car before getting thrown to the ground during a confrontation less than two weeks before he was shot and killed in Minneapolis.
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Wow ... This is the crazy Lumpers usually say shouldn't have guns .. but here we are ...
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Too bad he wasn't arrested and detained without ID, and a permit and destruction of federal property ... he'd be alive today.
I am sure this is the type of mental stability is who Lumpers want with guns .. you know as long as they are on the right team...
Right Snoofy?
#1 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-01-28 09:43 PM | Reply
And? If that is correct, he should have been arrested and subject to trial.
Is this a justification for his ICE execution?
Or is this just an example of ICE's use of facial recognition gone awry?
#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-28 09:46 PM | Reply
Why are you blaming the victim?
#3 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-01-28 09:48 PM | Reply
Define execution?
#4 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-01-28 09:48 PM | Reply
Here's the Company That Sold DHS ICE's Notorious Face Recognition App www.wired.com
... Immigration agents have used Mobile Fortify to scan the faces of countless people in the US"including many citizens. ...
#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-28 09:49 PM | Reply
@#3 ... Why are you blaming the victim? ...
I am not.
I am blaming ICE's response.
Do try harder.
#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-28 09:51 PM | Reply
@#4 ... Define execution? ...
Watch the videos.
#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-28 09:52 PM | Reply
Wonder if spitting on a car more than a week before he was murdered is a street execution offence in China, too?
Prolly so... I mean, Chinese Security would have already had his DNA.
Obviously 1NoNuts is fine with all that.
#8 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-28 10:00 PM | Reply
"Here's the Company That Sold DHS ICE's Notorious Face Recognition App"
Courtesy of those genocidal Zionists from Tel Aviv. Know thy enemy, American.
#9 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-01-28 10:03 PM | Reply
The actual company responsible: Corsight AI.
#10 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-01-28 10:10 PM | Reply
"Pretti was not a peaceful protester."
How'd he compare to J6?
Point is, he wasn't even a protester when he got shot. He was an innocent bystander.
#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-28 10:29 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
"I am sure this is the type of mental stability is who Lumpers want with guns "
You spelled Republicans wrong, but aside from that I'd say you have a valid point.
#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-28 10:30 PM | Reply
@9 "Know thy enemy," indeed: www.youtube.com
We are all Palestinians, now.
#13 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-28 10:31 PM | Reply
@#11 ... How'd he compare to J6?
Point is, he wasn't even a protester when he got shot. He was an innocent bystander. ...
That is an excellent observation and comparison.
Pres Trump pardoned the J6 people who assaulted the police who were trying to protect the Capitol.
Yet, in this instance, Pres Trump seems to be saying ...
~Agree with me and you will be pardoned, but disagree with me and my private militia will kill you.~
#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-28 10:52 PM | Reply
Great headline.
#15 | Posted by eberly at 2026-01-28 11:02 PM | Reply
---- off Beverly, you pathetic mewling MAGAT coward.
#16 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-28 11:16 PM | Reply
@#15 ... Great headline. ...
Why?
Please explain.
thx..
#17 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-28 11:16 PM | Reply
#1 | Posted by oneironaut
Too bad ICE doesn't drag you out of your house in your underwear and a blanket before shipping your worthless sack of s*&^ a&& back to China.
Hey dumbf*&^, how is it those agents managed not to shoot him?
F*&^ off you stupid piece of s*&^.
#18 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-28 11:21 PM | Reply
#4 | Posted by oneironaut
Shot in the back while blind and on your hands and knees.
#19 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-28 11:22 PM | Reply
#17 | Posted by LampLighter
Because Truthhurts gets under his and ballwasher's skin so they try to pick on him together thinking it'll change the facts of the situation.
#20 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-28 11:24 PM | Reply
OneiroNUT is a scum sucking troll. Blaming the victim.
#21 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-28 11:24 PM | Reply
Oneirondumbf*&^ is just a lying s*&^ stirring piece of foreign agitating s*&^.
#22 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-28 11:42 PM | Reply
@#20
I do not disagree.
#23 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-28 11:47 PM | Reply
@#19 ... Define execution?
Shot in the back while blind and on your hands and knees. ...
Yeah, that looks like correct assessment.
So, what might the investigation show?
An investigation by a division of ICE, not the usual FBI investigation that also involves local local and state investigators?
What may the Trump admin be trying to hide?
#24 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-28 11:53 PM | Reply
This is why there are ICE protests.
Taiyler S. Mitchell 5 hrs 23 mins ago Taiyler S. Mitchell
Judge Gives Scathing Review Of ICE, Says Todd Lyons No Longer Required To Appear In Court While canceling Friday's hearing in which acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons was required to appear, a judge in Minnesota gave a scathing review of the agency.
In a court order Wednesday, Chief U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz listed 96 instances in 74 cases in which ICE had violated court orders this month.
"This list should give pause to anyone -- no matter his or her political beliefs -- who cares about the rule of law," Schiltz said in the court order. "ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence."
The judge added that future noncompliance could lead to court-ordered "personal appearances of Lyons or other government officials."
The hearing was canceled because Ecuadorian national Juan Tobay Robles, the petitioner in the case, was released from a Minnesota immigration detention center on Tuesday.
Via Huffpost
this isn't about law or immigration.
#25 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-29 12:13 AM | Reply
Good bet they want to bury the fact that Lewzer just told his gun ------- "Base" that they can't just pack their gat anywhere they like.
And if they do, Uncle Sam might just bust a cap or ten on their ass. Let Freedom Ring.
LOL.
#26 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-01-29 12:22 AM | Reply
Chief US District Judge Patrick Schiltz may order Deputy US Marshals (DUSMs) ensure the future "personal appearances of Lyons or other government officials."
#27 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-29 12:39 AM | Reply
@ one Ruskie nut, the former horsey faced domestic terrorist known as Ashli Babbit sends her regards from hell.
#28 | Posted by a_monson at 2026-01-29 07:16 AM | Reply
DEATH TO MAGA
#29 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-29 11:14 AM | Reply
Well then, now I really believe it.
#30 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-01-29 11:34 AM | Reply
No wonder he was executed in the streets with so many shots to the back... he may have kicked a car the week before.
Apparently that makes it OK... in China anyway.
#31 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-29 11:39 AM | Reply
#31 Corky, must be some of the very fine print on the rental agreement signed by ICE:
A damaged car must be avenged by death
#32 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-29 11:42 AM | Reply
I saw that video flying all over X yesterday but I wasn't going to consider it real until someone credible confirmed the authenticity of it.
But......it doesn't matter. It anything, it just proves ICE agents really shot him because they were pissed at him and they resent Americans protesting their patriotic service.
This guy might get less sympathy but it's still murder.
#33 | Posted by eberly at 2026-01-29 11:57 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3
#33 | POSTED BY EBERLY
It's interesting that a government of Nazis and kleptocratic rapists thinks it has the moral authority to shame anyone.
#34 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-29 12:10 PM | Reply
11 days before ICE executed Alex Pretti, he kicked a vehicle?
And the ICE goons who were pepper spraying and harassing those women recognized him, and that's why they executed him?
Thats the new spin?
A lie so stupid, only a braindead deplorable Trumping MAGAt would believe it.
#35 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-01-29 12:25 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
OP: How did you get around the character limit for the headline?
#36 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-01-29 01:18 PM | Reply
kicking an immigration agent's car
Well that explains how it is all okay for the Pedo47 Junta to summarily execute him without a trial.
#37 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-01-29 01:26 PM | Reply
"This guy might get less sympathy but it's still murder."
In the wake of Renee Good's murder, no one can really blame anyone for throwing snowballs at or kicking the cars of the organization responsible for it. If anything even comparable to this happened under a different president, the right would have already taken up arms and reacted much more violently than any of the protesters we've seen in these videos.
#38 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-01-29 01:37 PM | Reply
Other than keeping the "narrative" accurate, that he wasn't some guy just walking by and stepping in to help some woman... what does it really matter what he did 11 days ago?
We already know he was there to protest and interfere... So he should be arrested at worst. This information doesn't change anything.
#39 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2026-01-29 02:38 PM | Reply
"We already know he was there to protest and interfere."
How do we know that?
#40 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-29 02:42 PM | Reply
The only people who will care about this are those looking for reasons to engage in character assassination or smears as a means to discredit him and justify the shooting.
#41 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-29 03:01 PM | Reply
#40 his parents had stated that he was injured in an altercation with ICE earlier. Most likely this being the incident. As I said though... what he did 11 days ago doesn't much matter in the moment when this unfolded.
#42 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2026-01-29 03:53 PM | Reply
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