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Mary Margaret Olohan @MaryMargOlohan Follow The Minnesota Star Tribune confirmed with Alex Pretti's family that the man in this video is indeed Alex Pretti. Filmed by @thenewsmovement on January 13, two weeks before Pretti was shot by ICE:

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Mr. Pretti was a brave man.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-29 06:40 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

#1. That may be true however his actions in this video were not acts of bravery.

#2 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-01-29 06:51 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

"#1. That may be true however his actions in this video were not acts of bravery."

They look like acts of anger, either from what happened a few days before (Renee Good) or what happened just before the edit of this video or both. Either way, it's even more damning for the ICE agents since it makes the latter encounter look like a premeditated revenge killing. Especially since he was not acting that way on the day he executed.

#3 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-01-29 07:08 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I didn't realize it his is a duplicate thread.

#4 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-01-29 07:10 PM | Reply

What's the purpose of posting this thread?

You believe it justifies his execution?

Idiot.

#5 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-01-29 07:25 PM | Reply

"That may be true however his actions in this video were not acts of bravery."

You don't think it's brave to stand up to fascism?
That tracks.

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-29 07:33 PM | Reply

Mr. Pretti was a brave man.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-29 06:40 PM

Mr. Pretti was a stupid man.

#7 | Posted by fortfisher at 2026-01-29 07:48 PM | Reply

Your dad was a stupid man for not paying for the abortion.

#8 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-01-29 07:50 PM | Reply

Mr. Pretti could be anyone of us who still believes in the 1st, 4th, 10th, and 2nd Amendments.

#9 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-29 08:06 PM | Reply

How many of the agents in this video were present for Pretti's murder? Does this show their motive for his killing?

#10 | Posted by qcp at 2026-01-29 11:43 PM | Reply

Your dad was a stupid man for not paying for the abortion.

#8 | Posted by ClownShack

You sure he didn't? Jeff sort of reminds me of a failed abortion.

#11 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-01-29 11:55 PM | Reply

Ballwasher the MAGAT scumbag.

#12 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-30 10:59 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Clown,

"What's the purpose of posting this thread?"

What this video showed me is that Pretti's reputation likely preceded him.

He may not have been unfamiliar to the agents who took him down before his death. His anger and aggressive nature were already known.

Finding a gun on him would have made him appear even more threatening.

And these are only the incidents caught on video. According to his ex, he was also present at the George Floyd riots, suggesting a broader pattern of volatile behavior.

Justified or not, his temper was out of control.

#13 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-01-31 03:35 PM | Reply

They broke his rib.

I bet the ICE that killed Alex Pretti recognized him.

#14 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-31 03:39 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Are you going to lie and say he was fired from his job, too?

#15 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-31 03:40 PM | Reply

"What this video showed me is that Pretti's reputation likely preceded him."

So you're saying ICE recognized him and remembered him from before, and that's why they killed him after he was already disarmed.

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-31 03:42 PM | Reply

"Finding a gun on him would have made him appear even more threatening."

That's probably why they took his gun away.

After taking his gun away, they killed him.

Why?

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-31 03:43 PM | Reply

So you're saying ICE recognized him and remembered him from before, and that's why they killed him after he was already disarmed.

#16 | Posted by snoofy

That's what I heard him say.

#18 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-31 03:44 PM | Reply

After taking his gun away, they killed him.

Why?

#17 | Posted by snoofy

BILL explained it: they knew him from before and resented his "angry" behavior.

By that metric, an awful lot of ICE agents need to be disarmed, then shot.

#19 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-31 03:45 PM | Reply

They broke his rib.
I bet the ICE that killed Alex Pretti recognized him.

#14 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-31 03:39 PM | Reply | Flag: Quite possible.

Murderous police officer Derek Chauvin and his victim George Floyd both worked security at the same nightclub in Minneapolis; as the white off-duty cop, Chauvin moonlighted inside while Man of Color Floyd was relegated to work the door on the outside as an ID screener.

Many people suspect that Chauvin and Floyd had a previous negative history, but this is only a theory.

#20 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-31 03:49 PM | Reply

Alex Pretti deserved to be shot because he protested George Floyd being killed. Sorry, it was a "riot" apparently everywhere.

That's basically where Bill Johnson is going, "Christian" that he is.

Don't worry, bill. If the police or ICE kill you no one will riot.

#21 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-31 03:51 PM | Reply

Justified or not, his temper was out of control.

Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-01-31 03:35 PM | Reply

Funny you don't say this about the two "professionals" that executed him.

#22 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-31 03:52 PM | Reply

"Finding a gun on him would have made him appear even more threatening."
That's probably why they took his gun away.
After taking his gun away, they killed the IDF-trained ICE agents executed him point blank in cold blood.
Why?

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-31 03:43 PM | Reply | Flag: FTFY a bit. Hope you don't mind, Snoofy.

#23 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-31 04:00 PM | Reply

Looks like Trump could have his Thugs commit Street Executions on protestors and not lose any votes.

At least not here on the Retort.

#24 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-31 04:21 PM | Reply

LIVE in MN

www.youtube.com

#25 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-31 04:23 PM | Reply

"Murderous police officer Derek Chauvin and his victim George Floyd both worked security at the same nightclub in Minneapolis"

Floyd got the cops called on him when he tried to pass a fake $20.

Chaivin was not a responding officer. Chauvin arrived after Floyd was already arrested, in handcuffs, in the back of the police cruiser.

Chauvin then brought Floyd out of the car, put him on the ground, and suffocated him with his knee on his neck.

There's only two reasonable explanations.
1. Chauvin killed Floyd to protect a counterfeiting operation.
2. Chauvin killed Floyd over some personal grudge.

#26 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-31 04:43 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I didn't say they killed him because they recognized him.

Don't imply I meant something I didn't.

What I meant was when they discovered a gun on him and possibly knew his reputation, they may have felt more threatened by him and that made them react.

I have a question if anyone has read anything that would answer it.

At the point where someone yells "gun", people moved in on him tighter and one man manages to retrieve the gun by reaching into the swarm of men on him.

My question based on what I can see in the videos, is there any chance the man who shot him missed the part where another agent got the gun and turned to leave. Did the man who shot him possibly think the gun was still in play?

Reading about that, there does seem to be the possibility. They didn't know he even had a gun at all and was surprised by it.

It was a split second between one agent reached into the mess of people on him, retrieved the gun and turned away and then the shooter fired his gun.

It's seems possible the man who shot him still thought the gun was in Pretti's possession.

Try to resist all the name calling and answer like a civil human being.

#27 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-01-31 04:54 PM | Reply

What has anyone found that clears up that question definitively.

#28 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-01-31 04:55 PM | Reply

"They didn't know he even had a gun at all and was surprised by it."

Then they are unprepared and unqualified for their jobs.

We live in a county where it's legal to carry guns.

They are working in a state where people can legally concealed carry.

If that surprised or scared them, they all need to be fired.

"they may have felt more threatened by him and that made them react"

So in the most favorable light you can cast on the police, you are saying they acted irrationally, out of fear.

#29 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-31 06:12 PM | Reply

The #1 way you should be able to figure out ICE is covering this up, is ICE hasn't even released the names of the two cops who fired their weapons during the killing.

I bet the killer has a criminal record and a history of violence.

Wanna take my bet?

I'll give you ten to one.

#30 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-31 06:17 PM | Reply

Snoofy,

Not interesting in your opinion.

Just anything that might answer my question.

#31 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-01-31 08:08 PM | Reply

"Is there any chance that the Trump goons who murdered a man by shooting him 10 times in the back are innocent?"

No.

#32 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-31 08:13 PM | Reply

I didn't say they killed him because they recognized him.
Don't imply I meant something I didn't.
What I meant was when they discovered a gun on him and possibly knew his reputation, they may have felt more threatened by him and that made them react.
I have a question if anyone has read anything that would answer it.
At the point where someone yells "gun", people moved in on him tighter and one man manages to retrieve the gun by reaching into the swarm of men on him.
My question based on what I can see in the videos, is there any chance the man who shot him missed the part where another agent got the gun and turned to leave. Did the man who shot him possibly think the gun was still in play?
Reading about that, there does seem to be the possibility. They didn't know he even had a gun at all and was surprised by it.
It was a split second between one agent reached into the mess of people on him, retrieved the gun and turned away and then the shooter fired his gun.
It's seems possible the man who shot him still thought the gun was in Pretti's possession.
Try to resist all the name calling and answer like a civil human being.
#27 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-01-31 04:54 PM

One who fired is apparently a Neo Nazi.

"that made him react."

You have not acknowledged the "challenge coins" whatsoever, and I doubt you listened to the William Sascha Riley interview.

ICE's purpose is to terrorize the population, thus Nazi's zip-tying naked US children and loading them into moving vans.

Wake up. Doesn't the abandonment of the Second Amendment seem.. suspicious?

#33 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-01-31 11:16 PM | Reply

Mr. Pretti was a stupid man.

#7 | Posted by fortfisher

S*&^heaps like you always find principals, morals and a sense of community responsibility "stupid."

#34 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-31 11:32 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Justified or not, his temper was out of control.

#13 | Posted by BillJohnson

No, he's just not a spineless p^&&% completely devoid of morals, values or principals like you MAGA turds are.

#35 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-31 11:33 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Hi Snoofy

Thanks for the info on Derek Chauvin and George Floyd.

My suspicion was not unfounded.

#36 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-01 12:59 AM | Reply

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