The footage of the fatal shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, said one journalist, “shows that the final act of his life was trying to help a woman who was being physically assaulted by the masked agents who would then kill him.”
In the original video of the shooting of a man in Minneapolis, identified by the Minneapolis Star Tribune at 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a woman in a pink coat was seen in the background filming the incident with her phone.
Drop Site News obtained footage that appeared “to come from the direction of the woman in pink filming from the sidewalk” and showed the shooting at a closer distance than the footage taken from inside Glam Doll Donuts.
In the video, the shooting victim, dressed in a brown coat and pants, is seen filming a federal agent with his phone. He’s then seen guiding another person toward the sidewalk as the agent forcefully shoves a third person to the ground.
Ten of them for every one of us, that’s all I’m saying.
People forget that the earth is a world of chaos where the biggest free for all in all of our universe, that we know of, exists.
The fact that humans tried to impose a fake order in that chaos is just an anomaly.
Embrace chaos.
Everyone remember to keep getting more people onto Piefed and Lemmy (Voyager for Lemmy) along with Session, Signal, XMPP, Mastodon, Stoat, Pixelfed, etc etc. The more of us on here the better
Yep! Social media is deleting content. Reddit is deleting posts. Tiktok is now under Trump’s finger.
Just bear in mind that many Fediverse instances are in Europe and Europe has no free speech culture. EG In Germany, people who upload videos of police are commonly prosecuted for GDPR violations. It violates the fundamental rights of the police officers. When European activists oppose Big Tech in the name of democracy, they want more censorship; more government control.
The so-called activists you are exposed to that are backed by powerful interests do indeed try to get more censorship.
They have plenty of real activists I would add just as an aside, the ones fighting chat control and age checks and other such Trojan horses they are trying to bring inside too rat fuck the internet.
It is just we are fighting organized monied groups as disparate peoples, so the organized efforts to id every ip and account in europe with id and likeness and run it all through ai threat detection owned by palantir types to make secret social scores that will secretly determine everything from your job prospects, police attention, loans, to prices charged and even what info search engines show you, that all seems like activist groups because we have at most banded into public interest groups fighting rearguard and woeking disparatly off of guerilla reporters’ scoops,while they have a well funded and orchestrated plan using groups like protecct the children with studies they commission and lawmakers they leased and media they are in league with or indeed own.
It is tech behind a lot of it. Even opposing big tech, is oftentimes schemes to surrender to big tech, as is chatcontrol and age checks.
Please dont boil it down to this. It is perfectly legal to post videos of police in Germany, you just have to obscure the faces of all people in the video that did not consent to it being publicy available. Furthermore, the spoken word has additonal protections in place. Yes, the european data protection legislation can be difficult to navigate, but bear in mind that it focuses on the personal rights of ALL people, even police. However there is still the possibility to publish material unedited if it has cultural or historical significance. Of couse this would go to court, but hey: At least we have courts to settle those matters transparently. KG Berlin – Az.: 2 ORs 31/23 – 121 Ss 130/23 – Urteil vom 30.11.2023
EU have a freedom of expression law and multiple countries also have constitutional freedom of speech, including right to film police
Germany is also rather unique in having laws with opaque interpretations
https://digit.site36.net/2023/01/31/police-violence-in-germany-misuse-of-wiretapping-paragraph/
Trying
All good we got this. Whatever person we get on is a huge thing to the movement. Also stay well Buller!
I joined today, so the exposure(reddit comment in my case) definately helps!
Welcome to the movement and Lemmy/Piefed (depending on which you use) Lolidan! Get comfy we in for bumpy ride
Sooooo is it just Minnesota that’s going to oppose this gestapo shit? Or nah.
You couldn’t write what this is a picture of?
Oh my god, that is dense. Seems like a hazard almost, if someone were to require medical assistance in the middle of that, they would have a hard time scattering people.
Also, at first I thought that was AI generated lol. Is it real? (I’m so annoyed that I have to ask.)
Oh my god, that is dense. Seems like a hazard almost, if someone were to require medical assistance in the middle of that, they would have a hard time scattering people.
That happens a lot at protests, the protestors just step to the side (compressing the crowd a little) to create a lane. Even if it is getting a bit angry, nobody is angry at EMS or the fire department.
Also, at first I thought that was AI generated lol. Is it real? (I’m so annoyed that I have to ask.)
It’s real, here’s the source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/us/minnesota-businesses-protest-ice.html
Thanks so much
I’ve read that Alex was a veteran. So he probably participated in overseas operations and survived against whoever he fought against for his country, only to be executed in his own town by what is probably a frustrated basement dweller without any more accomplishment in his life than insulting kids on CoD and gooning ten times a day.
Cite that claim. I’m not saying your wrong, but to my knowledge, he was a nurse working at a VA medical facility, rather than a veteran himself.
Sorry I don’t have a reliable source on that. I just read it on the Minnesota subreddit, someone who was explaining who he was. They said that he served in the air force, and then worked as a nurse for veterans.
Ok, I think I found the source of that discrepancy. He was a member of “AFGE”, the American Federation of Government Employees.
Being unfamiliar with that organization, I initially thought “AFGE” might have been an Air Force organization. I suspect someone else might have made this same initial assumption.
This comment thread is the only indication I’ve seen that he was associated with the military in any aspect other than his work for the VA.
A lot of the folks working at the VA happen to be veterans. I’m not confirming or denying anything here, just saying there’s a strong correlation.
Not exactly probably. Remember that around 1/3 of veterans, such as myself a former Navy Nuke Instructor, never went overseas. Also of the ones that do go to another country, 90% are support staff and never see active combat. He would have been one of those, as he would have been a corpsman, (nurse or doctor,).and would have been serving at a hospital.
So he probably participated in overseas operations
What’s with Americans and their euphemisms when it comes to serving in the military
I’m not in the US, that’s how we say “going to another country to perform military missions” in my country.
And as much as I have a general dislike for the US foreign policy they did good things too. I’ve read that he worked in the air force so he could have participated in preventing ISIS from killing more innocent and enslaving ethnic minorities by targeting their weapons depots a few years ago for example.
He probably went to another country and killed people. HOWEVER, if that’s true at least there’s a decent chance those people were armed and facing him, not pinned to the ground and shot in the back.
You’re almost correct. Almost 90% of veterans never saw front line combat. The sheer amount of support roles in the military is completely overlooked by fucking everyone.
He went to another country. The fact that others are saying he was working as a nurse in his home town indicates that he was likely a corpsman, aka a military nurse that wasn’t killing anyone, he was working in the modern day version of a M.A.S.H. unit.
Looks like they are the ones starting a fight… and escalated… and murdered. Sigh. A complete set-up to fail. Stay strong over there.
Alex Pretti was murdered.
Say it with me. This was no “shooting.”
And it’s going to keep happening again and again.
I think Executed would be the correct term. The EXECUTED him while several agents held him down.
Alex Pretti was murdered by ICE
Renee Macklin Good was murdered by ICE
Did you copy/paste the other person…?
Yes.
Alex Pretti was murdered by ICE
Renee Macklin Good was murdered by ICE
A lot more than those people…ICE Deaths Memorial https://icefalltracker.com/
Since justice is dead, it’s time to get the shooters’ names out there. We all saw with our own eyes what happened.
Murderers should get murdered.
It’s not murder if a murderer gets killed. That’s referred to as an execution specifically and justice more broadly
Kristi Noem lying on TV this very moment about Alex Pretti and painting him as terrorist. And then claims the investigation will be performed. It seems to me they performed investigation 5 seconds after they put like 15 rounds into Alex. This shit needs Nuremberg type trials for entire current USA administration starting with Trump, all his hyenas and all the agents that murdered Alex and Renee. USA is a lawless wild west. They aren’t enforcing laws, they are playing Judge Dredd and interpret the laws pretty much randomly the way they feel, usually ending with innocent people dying. And then they continue lying about it. This is fucked.
Not to be overly Comic-book-guy but:
Judge Dredd is never portrayed killing someone for his own gratification in 2000AD. He isn’t racist, or to my knowledge, even a classist.
Yes, he is a ‘judge’ in an ultra violent society that devolves execution, due process and investigation to the officer on the beat.
But no one is above the law as far as he concerned not even the judiciary. There probably isn’t a president of the US that he wouldn’t have arrested for their crimes, and quite a few he’d execute for their crimes against humanity. Trump wouldn’t have made it to this millennium.
These ICE thugs are just cowardly fascist scum. Law is just a weapon of suppression to them. For Judge Dredd the law was sacred and the only thing preventing humanity from eating itself in his post apocalyptic future hellscape.
Him and The Punisher (who law enforcement tend to idolize) are people we shouldn’t wish for, but maybe people like them are sometimes required. When the justice system fails, who holds people accountable? If no one, then there’s nothing stopping evil people from doing whatever they want.
We don’t want state officials working for vigilante justice, but occasionally in history someone does need to.
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Alternately: is Kamala happy that she chose to openly defy her voting base and refuse to budge on Israel happy now?
Are the DNC fucks who refused to run a quality candidate or a quality campaign because that would upset their corporate donors happy now?
They are happy and openly preparing to do it again.
youre right but given the choice between a shit democrat candidate/campaign and this, the answer was incredibly obvious from the beginning and if anyone thought otherwise theyre a dumbass
The nation is filled with dumbasses. But also, it was gonna get here eventually anyway. “Being the lesser of two evils” DNC strategy just meant things kept getting worse even with Democrats in charge. Trump put kids in cages but Biden didn’t stop it. Obama killed American citizens with airstrikes. Every presidency was an escalation.
Whoa what you mean about the airstrikes never heard of that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki
“He was assassinated in Yemen in 2011 by a U.S. drone strike ordered by President Barack Obama. Al-Awlaki was the first U.S. citizen to be targeted and assassinated by a U.S. government drone strike.”
The information available shows he was probably guilty of some serious crimes but he wasn’t killed on the battlefield and under US law, he was innocent until proven guilty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Abdulrahman_al-Awlaki
“According to the United States government, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki’s father, Anwar al-Awlaki, was a leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Anwar al-Awlaki was killed by a CIA drone strike several days before his son’s death.”
“Human rights groups questioned why Abdulrahman al-Awlaki was killed by the U.S. in a country with which the United States was not at war. Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, stated “if the government is going to be firing Predator missiles at American citizens, surely the American public has a right to know who’s being targeted, and why.””
you chose “fascism definitely today” over “fascism maybe tomorrow”
I voted for Harris. How was voting for Harris “fascism definitely today”? You know something about Kamala I don’t? I assumed Trump was “fascism definitely today”
gotcha, my mistake i made an assumption
She should never have been nominated. Any woman is going to have an uphill battle even if they aren’t neoliberal scum, but both Hillary and Kamala were also neoliberal scum, so they never stood a chance.
And every time a neoliberal bastard is placed in office their overt sliminess will swing the pendulum even harder toward the next big-talking, face-eating, would-be monarch that comes along and promises to do something, even if the something is mass murder, mass torture, isolationism, and foreign and domestic terror.
A lot of Americans chose “something different” over “more of the current shit that is slowly killing us”.
Perhaps if they’d been offered another version of “something different” they wouldn’t have chosen Trump. Or maybe they would, because ultimately Trump embodies the real American dream for a lot of people.
Well now I’m taking some solace knowing that libs who wanted to ignore the Palestinian genocide still think leftists are why they lost. Meet our demands next time I guess.
I’m still not going to consider 70,000 dead Palestinians ‘acceptable losses’ so that you can go back to brunch.
This was only supposed to happen somewhere else!
Continue to blame the voters for voting wrong. That’ll work.
Not on us. For you it’s “better” to slaughter children than execute Americans, so you voted for genocide. For us, neither are acceptable so we voted for a third option.
It’s on you for refusing to not support genocide and insist on voting for a nonviable candidate.
Because Gaza is up much better off with Kushner in charge of it? https://lemmy.ml/post/42175873
Fuck off.
You’re so disgusting.
“I voted for genocide. Are you happy that it’s still being genocided?”
You fuck off, and get off your high horse. Your comfort as an American is not more important than all the brown people you don’t give a shit about being slaughtered.
There was no option to vote AGAINST genocide
I think they shifted to “Kamala would be doing exactly the same thing” and have now moved to “Trump would have won anyway.”
Some people just want to watch the world burn.
They are trying to scare you from exercising your 2nd amendment rights.
I saw a video of another US citizen getting detained by ICE and he was also legally carrying a gun (had his permit on him) and they made a huge deal about him having it. It seems that these ICE agents view just having a gun as a crime itself.
Seems more of a reason to carry a rifle on a sling, that’s not going to fall out of a holster in a fist fight (if that’s what happened).
The very minute I read some synopsis on a news alert on my phone and saw that it was claimed that “he had a gun” I disbelieved that.
Even if he had a gun and he’s on the ground and tried to get up? That justifies shooting “roughly 10” times?
I’ve seen those headlines too. It’s seems like they are trying to insinuate that it actually is criminal in some respect for citizens to carry guns in the US. At least that’s the vibe I’m getting from them making a big deal about that detail.
He did have a gun.
He was being a responsible citizen, exercising his 2and Amendment rights with a holstered weapon, in compliance with Minnesota law.
Gestapo thugs tackled and beat him, upholstered and removed the firearm from his side, and only then did they unload 9 bullets into him as he laid unarmed and beaten on the street.
But as you’ll see, and as anyone who’s ever paid attention to the 2A fascist assholes will know, they suddenly become hyper anti-gun the moment its someone they don’t like exercising their rights.
That sure sounds like something the NRA should have an opinion about
The NRA started the anti-gun movement in California alongside Reagan. In response to the Black Panthers carrying while copwatching as they did similar shit to the Black neighborhoods in the 1960s.
The NRA will back it no problem. They have before.
The NRA exists solely for the profit of firearms manufacturers.
This won’t hinder their sales,so the NRA won’t care.
Lol, if that were true, they should be shouting from the rooftops because after this, people will be scrambling to get guns when an occupying private military starts executing civilians on the street.
The NRA is an embezzlement scam. They don’t care about gun rights OR gun manufacturers
It might even increase them.
I hope innocent people start asking themselves. It’s fucking time for the 2A to kick in
Idk about the NRA, but this is the GOAs response.
While I disagree with their statement about immigration, I gotta at least give them credit for not being totally two-faced.
It would have been great if not for that “The Left is clearly the antagonist here!1111!111” part
That statement some real “both sides” energy bullshit. The only ones obliged to behave like professionals here are the ones representing the US government on official duty. The rest are obliged to do exactly what they are doing. Keep watching, keep filming, keep supporting each other, and keep showing the world all of it.
The NRA protects cops more than they protect guns.
Do not believe anything posted by doj or their affiliates
Sucks that TousiTV keeps getting his sources from them when he covers USA. We are trying to help Iranian/Persian people and ourselves which is tough
Department of Injustice
And whitehouse.gov will “meme” it with AI in 3…2…1
So make sure to spread the unaltered, original footage far and wide.
Everyone should have a gun when dealing with ice
Everyone should use* a gun when dealing with ice.
Everyone should be heading to DC to strike/protest, but nobody is organizing on that scale yet because they think they can still turn it around with an election
By November it’ll be too late
It’s really difficult to make out what’s going on in the video. Which one was it that shot him? Was there more than one of the ICE fuckers shooting him, or just one of them?
No sure if it’s the same thing but the gray jacket guy (not the one marked with an arrow, the one on his right) has a knife/baton on his belt. At one point he pulls on Alex’s arm and the knife/baton falls to the ground behind him. There are other objects on the ground looking like gas cans. I don’t see a gun falling to the ground.
I think the guy marked with an arrow fires the first shot. He clearly draws his gun quickly and points/presses it against Alex’s back right before you can hear the first shot. The way Alex gets up and turns looks consistent. The I don’t see anyone else holding a gun.
I have no idea who fires the next 3 shots. Logically it should be the same guy but you can see him taking couple of steps back holding his gun down. He then gets a proper grip on his gun and fires 5 more shots. The guy next to him fires one shot before that.
So looking at the position of all agents I would say guy with an arrow fires shots 1-4 and 6-10 but all the shots sound different (can be simply some audio encoding/phone microphones issue). From the video it really doesn’t look like he fires shots 2-4 but I can’t see anyone else in a position to shoot.
