VA Tried to Block a Memorial Service for Alex Pretti

Friday, January 30, 2026

National leadership at the Department of Veterans Affairs initially blocked a memorial planned for Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old ICU nurse who was shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis.

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Did VA officials try to stop a memorial for Alex Pretti?

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-- Senator Elissa Slotkin (@slotkin.senate.gov) Jan 29, 2026 at 6:21 PM

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No surprise reading this. The abominable VA Secretary Doug Collins, who is making drastic cuts to the VA and hurting us Veterans, is a USAFR Colonel and a Christian Chaplain.

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-30 03:01 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"abominable"

Credit where credit is due.
Collins is the first Snowman to hold that high ranking position.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-30 03:04 AM | Reply

Thanks to DOGE and this faux Christian leading the VA, thousands of Veterans are getting scammed by contractors and other nefarious actors.

"Attempts to defraud service members, veterans, and their families are so rampant that advocates are pushing for an entirely new approach to cracking down on predators and root causes, according to a recent congressional roundtable.

In an increasingly digital world in which it is easy to mask identity, lawmakers should ensure federal agencies "don't have a monopoly on enforcement," Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from 2021 to 2025, said during the 21 Jan House Veterans' Affairs Committee Democrats discussion."

The Trumpf junta scaled back consumer protection in 2025.

I wonder why.

Link: www.militarytimes.com

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-30 03:18 AM | Reply

Fraud and exploitation has always been rampant near military bases. Including the legal kind. I seem to recall some sort of law restricting payday loans within a certain distance of the base being passed, decades ago. Tattoo parlors, in the old days.

The amount of people who take their bonus and run out to buy new vehicle is laughable. Reminds me of Jay-Z:

If you grew up with holes in your zapatos
You'd celebrate the minute you be havin dough

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-30 04:28 AM | Reply

Abominable

"Credit where credit is due. Collins is the first Snowman to hold that high ranking position."

Well, to be frank, he'd been at "despicable" for a long time, and he was overdue to be...

...demoted.

#5 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-01-30 04:32 AM | Reply

Another victim of the-------------------.

#6 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-01-30 01:39 PM | Reply

Well, he wasn't nursing anyone when he got it. He was fighting the government.

#7 | Posted by john_savage1 at 2026-01-30 02:43 PM | Reply

again the same old tired baloney from you zipper faced toadstools....

--he was fired.....and he was a raving lunatic...not the caring and kind citizen helping the

wounded and the infirmed and CERTAINLY NOT the good Samaritan helping out a poor

woman on the street which is how your fellow dishonest prix made sure you dopey stooges

fell for that recycled gobbilty goop...

some talk that he was also removed for improper touching of patients which should really

excite some of you.

#8 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-01-30 03:25 PM | Reply

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ONCE AGAIN..........the democrat patootie plucking media

has taken an issue and made you fools look like....well....fools.

The Treyvon'ing of this guy gets worse.

Picture going around of this kind and caring VA nurse with two pt patients.

one on a rail walker and another with seatbelt waist doing exercises.

I spent an hour a day for two weeks recently at a PT clinic and the place was full.

NOT ONE TIME IN THOSE 16 HOURS DID I EVER SEE A PT....working with more than one patient.

never ever never......so it's obviously a fake.

and" you people" have obviously been duped again.....as in....duped dopes.

#9 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-01-30 03:47 PM | Reply

Well, he wasn't nursing anyone when he got it. He was fighting the government.
#7 | Posted by john_savage1

He was trying to help a woman who was being assaulted and having her 1A rights violated.

#10 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-30 03:48 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

especially the two high fall risk patients in the picture.

#11 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-01-30 03:58 PM | Reply

He was trying to help a woman who was being assaulted and having her 1A rights violated.

#10 | Posted by jpw

one lie about him exposed after another from the media liars.

you may have added another one.

#12 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-01-30 03:59 PM | Reply

the difference between normal people and "you people" is we don't think he should have died.

We're just pointing how the dishonest media / fake so called journalists make "you people" look dumber

than you sound.

you blood thirsty pumpkin headed freaks relish in the death of others.....babbit / scalia / kirk...

...then lecture about morality and humanity...f/g jokes and 2 faced liars.

#13 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-01-30 04:05 PM | Reply

blood thirsty pumpkin headed freaks relish in the death of others.....babbit / scalia / kirk

--and thirst for the demise of other....in all my internet work I've never EVER read a leftist

jerkhoff jackwad leftists POS say anything like...." yeah I didn't like what kirk said but I don't think

he should have been killed..............never / ever.

---and thirst for the demise of other..

and I can prove it with your own words.

#14 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-01-30 04:10 PM | Reply

"He was fighting the government."

I'm curious if you think Trump was fighting the government when he dodged the draft.

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-30 04:43 PM | Reply

^ quiet you blood thirsty pumpkin headed freak

#16 | Posted by john_savage1 at 2026-01-30 07:43 PM | Reply