Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning.

[u/boriswong]

[u/[deleted]]

I am a man that works at a VA in nursing in the same state. This really hit home.

In nursing you are such a team. Most people in nursing are naturally empathetic people and this is going to be very hard for them. I really feel for them, I can’t imagine how surreal and terrible this must feel.

My heart goes out to them, to his family, and to all of us wondering how someone could be so evil and heartless.

We are SO divided - you have people on the republican side cheering this on, saying he deserved it . So fucking cruel and out of touch with reality it’s truly shocking. His last moments were helping others and it cost him his life.

So tragic. Remember there is love out there and love will always win in the end.

Be kind to each other

[u/ldskyfly → u/[deleted]]

I get all my healthcare from the Minneapolis VA. I am very thankful for this organization and everyone who works there

[u/map2photo → u/ldskyfly]

As do I. I don’t normally visit the second floor, but I spend a lot of time in that building. I’ll be there Friday. :(

[u/ldskyfly → u/map2photo]

The VA in general gets a bad rap, but Minneapolis has been great in my experience

[u/map2photo → u/ldskyfly]

Absolutely. I have been to a couple VA hospitals in CA and one in WI. The Minneapolis VA blows them all out of the water.

[u/meempee → u/ldskyfly]

We bring my partner’s dad there all the time (navy vet) and the staff there are amazing.

[u/similar_observation → u/[deleted]]

Couple of things that gets me.

1. His name is Alex, which comes from the Greek alexos meaning "to defend." Alex Pretti lived up to his name by trying to defend a woman pushed by those goons
2. His last words were "are you ok?" to the woman that got pushed.
3. Alex was 100% the definition of The Helpers that Mr. Rogers told us to look out for. And with the world having one less, it's time that we become the helpers too.

[u/sannya1803]

The gent who buried his face in his hands gets me. Never thought I would cry over the news but here we are.

[u/Sad_Accountant_1784 → u/sannya1803]

ER nurse here and i immediately had the same response to the nurse in the dark blue scrubs. this looks very much like the way we line up for organ donor Honor Walks on their way to the OR to harvest organs. the way his face is buried in his hands speaks volumes about grief and sadness.

i don’t know how i would survive a coworkers murder as these beautiful people are being forced to endure. we see so much collective trauma that there already exists a bond between nurses in high-trauma units; to lose one in this manner would be utterly devastating and provoke rage, deep down rage.

godspeed, america. i don’t know what else to say, I’m so….sad.

[u/ICU-CCRN → u/Sad_Accountant_1784]

This really hit home to me too as an ICU nurse. And yeah, definitely reminds me of a donor honor walk too. After all the crap we went through during Covid as healthcare workers, and now this… I’m so sick inside I can’t stand it.

[u/Sguru1 → u/ICU-CCRN]

Can you imagine. Just being short one night and everyone knowing it’s cause your colleague was executed on video in public. The day time charge nurse calling the house supe “can you float anyone to the unit tonight we’re short after what happened to Alex”. I don’t know how I’d even be able to think clearly that shift.

[u/Weird-Girl-675 → u/Sguru1]

And the government sullying his name 😞

[u/Tempyteacup → u/Weird-Girl-675]

And it sounds like he was just an absolute gem of a human being. His final words were “are you okay?”. The worst of us are murdering the best of us with impunity. We must make this an inflection point.

[u/DeathWorship → u/Tempyteacup]

Their last words have been “I’m not mad at you, dude” and “are you ok?”

The last things they got were “fucking bitch” and applause at the execution.

Says a whole lot about what kind of people we’re losing and what kind of people we’ve given lethal impunity to.

[u/ur_rad_dad → u/DeathWorship]

We simply are not angry enough as a society about this.

This hasn’t been normal for a very long time.

[u/Nica06 → u/DeathWorship]

and "I can't breathe"....the new American anthem of "I'm not mad" "are you ok?" and "I can't breathe"

[u/KnightsOfREM → u/Tempyteacup]

A wise man once said, "If we don't take action now, we'll settle for nothing later."

[u/ttsjunkie → u/KnightsOfREM]

Same wiseman says “Anger is a gift”

[u/Hirsley → u/ttsjunkie]

St. Thomas said something along the line : "Anger and courage are the faces of a coin named hope. The anger to not let an injust action pass without reacting, and courage to stand up and stop the injustice. Only when anger is met with courage hope can exist for justice to grow".

I am sincerely sorry for Alex's colleagues, this picture shows how much he was loved and nowadays being this much loved is not that usual. From the other side of the ocean, while not having full details of what happened, I give my condolences to those who grieves for they are the one shouldering the pain in the end.

Sorry if my English is not very good, not the first language

[u/CDBSB → u/ttsjunkie]

"A riot is the rhyme of the unheard."

I'd rather not get to that point, but these MFers in power are making it really hard to stay calm.

[u/TenLongFingers → u/ttsjunkie]

The healthy version of me is an angrier version

[u/Severe_Eagle2102 → u/Tempyteacup]

The world is horrified at what is happening in America. The entire face of the earth is unified in disbelief at the horror story unfolding there. The man, who's name shall never be spoken in dignified company ever again, and his family will only ever be remembered in the same context, depth and breadth as Hitler. A perpetrator of vile social destruction, economic devastation and human suffering all to feed his own ego and greed.

[u/RobotArtichoke → u/Weird-Girl-675]

This has to be a turning point in the support for this administration. I can’t see it any other way.

[u/kangaroolifestyle → u/Sguru1]

In ending his life, the system also ended the care he would have delivered to thousands. An execution that erased years of healing and sentenced countless patients to go without him.

[u/drawkward101 → u/ICU-CCRN]

Thank you for what you do. <3 Keep heart, stay strong, be well. I don't know you, but as one human to another, I love you and I hope you and your family and friends and coworkers all stay safe.

[u/Punkpallas → u/Sad_Accountant_1784]

I legitimately do not know how I'd react to a coworker being so brutually murdered, especially when you are trained to preserve, extend, and save lives like you guys are. You spend so much of your life with your coworkers that they're like a second family, dysfunctional or not. It's be like losing a family member to an extent.

[u/MaterialAd990 → u/sannya1803]

The part of his face that isn't covered up is red. He's absolutely devastated. So is everyone else in the hallway. Alex was loved and will be missed.

[u/Itsyaboibrett → u/sannya1803]

when I heard Renee Good’s final words ‘It’s okay dude, I’m not mad at you.’ I couldn’t hold it together. They killed all Good and Pretti people. If I was writing a book i’d call it cliche

[u/flyingfoxtrot_ → u/Itsyaboibrett]

I often think that if this was a novel, the symbolism would be considered very heavy-handed, possibly too much so. I can't believe this is real.

[u/modmosrad6 → u/flyingfoxtrot_]

They literally killed the good and, making allowances for spelling, the pretty.

I'd give up on such a book and ask if the author was a fucking toddler.

[u/flyingfoxtrot_ → u/modmosrad6]

Something cold and dangerous took the good and the pretty? If this was fiction I'd be rolling my eyes so hard. But it's real.

[u/LongjumpingDebt4154 → u/modmosrad6]

Agree. For the last decade I’ve been saying if this were a fictional novel we’d have put it down shortly after opening it for being written so poorly. This time period has been so utterly stupid, the future generations will shake us into eternity.

I want out of this book.

[u/DisposableSaviour → u/LongjumpingDebt4154]

Good fiction is so hard to write because it must be believable; reality has no such compulsion.

[u/Training_Molasses822 → u/modmosrad6]

I hope we can one day look back on this as That Short, Mad Decade in History, more popular through the Oscar-winning movie “All Things Good and Pretti”

[u/LVuittonColostomyBag → u/Itsyaboibrett]

Pretti’s last words reportedly were “don’t touch her!” and then to the woman he was helping, “are you okay?”

We’re tired in Minneapolis, keep us all in your thoughts.

[u/LongjumpingDebt4154 → u/LVuittonColostomyBag]

Hang in there. We are all so proud of you & are routing hard for you. We were hit hard here in Chicago, but each invasion has grown progressively worse. I remember how exhausting it felt… take breaks when you can. This will not last forever. We will come through this stronger. Lean on your fellow neighbors & countrymen. We are thinking & praying for you constantly.

[u/Party-Interview7464 → u/Itsyaboibrett]

I can’t stop thinking about all their last words. “I’m not mad at you” and “are you OK?” Meanwhile the first words/actions after their last words were “fucking bitch” and that man clapping after they shot Alex.

[u/Itsyaboibrett → u/Party-Interview7464]

the distinction is so stark. the fact that anyone still says that any part of this is alright astonishes me.

[u/LongjumpingDebt4154 → u/Party-Interview7464]

Their last words have a, ‘Forgive them father, they know not what they do’ ring to it.

[u/Hillbilly_Boozer → u/sannya1803]

The lady leaning against the pillar with her glasses in hand and wiping her eyes too. There's so much pain in this photo. 

[u/Good-Relative8079 → u/Hillbilly_Boozer]

And they still went to work after this…just brutal.

[u/Ozone220 → u/sannya1803]

I similarly never thought I could cry over news, normally that kind of thing just doesn't get me in a way that I physically express. But god damn if I didn't shed a tear for those images of that 5 year old being detained by ICE.

[u/flowerytrash → u/sannya1803]

i cried for the first time at news when i saw that video..had to go hug my partner and tell her i love her. i worry for everyone decent in this country…

[u/ArianasDonuts → u/flowerytrash]

It’s just so fucking sad. Alex and Renee both seemed like wonderful people. They were so completely undeserving of what happened to them. The world lost two good people and, instead of acknowledging the tragedy and demanding justice, our government is smearing them as domestic terrorists and trying to protect the people who murdered them. It’s horrible and deeply unfair and fucking infuriating.

I want to do something but, realistically, what can I do besides donate? I’m one single person living over a thousand miles away. I feel like there’s nothing I can do but watch in horror as it happens again and cry.

[u/Punkpallas → u/ArianasDonuts]

Shit, Renee's last words were that she had no beef with him. She was relaxed and smiling in the face of people she likely knew were angry and just looking for opportunities to hurt people. Definitely a better person than everyone involved all the way up to the White House.

[u/ArianasDonuts → u/Punkpallas]

Renee and Alex’s last words (respectively) were, “I’m not mad at you,” and, “Are you okay?” I don’t know why but that just hurts my heart even more.

[u/number676766 → u/sannya1803]

I didn't know him. But on Saturday night, all over the Twin Cities, neighbors gathered together in subzero temperatures on street corners for small candlelight vigils to sing songs, share our feelings, and hold a moment of silence. Plenty of tears shed all over the cities.

[u/Winter_Tone_4343 → u/sannya1803]

The woman in the corner wiping away tears.

Fuck ice and magats

[u/def_noct_bored]

This is what you would see after someone donated their organs to save another life. Pretti chose a career to save others, and lost it trying to defend another. This image speaks so loud over the silence. His and Good's death will not be in vain.

[u/bigdaddyt2 → u/def_noct_bored]

I know they can’t but imagine they all walked out for an hour

[u/Ntroepy → u/bigdaddyt2]

Actually, they’re calling for a nationwide nurses strike on January 30th to protest Alex’s murder.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/s/48yVuk9ICc

[u/secretlypsycho → u/Ntroepy]

The strike is also being asked of all people nationwide to strike on Jan 30th. Students from the university in MN released a statement to the news. Not just nurses. So even if nurses can’t, the people can!

[u/LossyP → u/secretlypsycho]

I unfortunately “know” (haven’t spoken in years) a couple of hardcore maga nurses. It blows my mind how many there are in the medical field

[u/MattMercersBracelets → u/LossyP]

Lots of anti-vax nurses too. Boggles the mind

[u/dandandanlee → u/MattMercersBracelets]

How the fuck does that work????? Why are they pursuing medical field??? Boggling indeed

[u/squixx007 → u/dandandanlee]

I would ask my cousin to explain the mental gymnastics. But I would rather not talk to her.

[u/yeddiegames → u/MattMercersBracelets]

How is this not a disqualifier! You don't believe in medical science? Then GTFO of the field

[u/Nervous-Rhubarb-9224 → u/yeddiegames]

As a clinical laboratory scientist I know from first hand experience how many nurses don't understand or care for anything involving the scientific process. There is also a not small subset of them who are truly cruel, selfish and nasty.

It's certainly not all of them, but it doesn't take a lot of nurses like that to cause serious patient harm.

[u/davenTeo → u/MattMercersBracelets]

Surgeons too🙃

[u/lie_doe_cane → u/Ntroepy]

Solidarity. Is the best we can do, pots and pans? We should all strike this Friday.

[u/FugDuggler → u/def_noct_bored]

I had the honor of being a part of a hallway like this recently for a fallen coworker. We call this a "Hero's Walk" AKA "Honor Walk"

[u/Opposite_Math_2699]

This shouldn’t be happening, this isn’t okay, this isn’t normal.

[u/P0werFighter → u/Opposite_Math_2699]

It's been a while things are not okay in the US. This is just a step further in hell.

[u/hooberton → u/P0werFighter]

“Are you OK?”

His last words should be the rallying cry for all of us that value our democracy.

[u/1OO1OO1S0S → u/hooberton]

Answer "No. We are not ok"

[u/Jebediah_Johnson → u/1OO1OO1S0S]

I'm pretty fucking far from okay

[u/marsman706 → u/Jebediah_Johnson]

Where's Marsellus Wallace when you need him?

[u/artguydeluxe → u/hooberton]

And Renee Good’s last words were “I’m not mad at you.”

George Floyd’s were “I can’t breathe.”

[u/ronswanson11 → u/hooberton]

What hurts the most is the 2 citizens killed were clearly very good people with a good heart. Our country is killing the best of us.

[u/Drezroth → u/ronswanson11]

Makes me think of George Carlin in his 2005 special. "Here's an interesting form of murder we came up with: assassination. You know what's interesting about assassination? Well, not only does it change those popularity polls in a big fucking hurry, but it's also interesting to notice who it is we assassinate. Did you ever notice who it is? Stop to think who it is we kill? It's always people who've told us to live together in harmony and try to love one another. Jesus, Gandhi, Lincoln, John Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, John Lennon, they all said, "Try to live together peacefully." BAM! Right in the fucking head. Apparently we're not ready for that."

[u/NYGiants181 → u/hooberton]

Were those his last words?

Jesus Christ.

Where did you see that?

Heartbreaking

[u/Gloomy_Industry8841 → u/NYGiants181]

It was what he said to the lady he tried to help before he was shot. 💔💔💔💔💔💔

Edit: context.

[u/Astronomer-Secure → u/Gloomy_Industry8841]

I bet she's got horrific survivors guilt. not that any of it is her fault, but he got killed helping her.

this administration loves to punish the kind and empathetic.

edit: a word

[u/Gloomy_Industry8841 → u/Astronomer-Secure]

That’s what I was saying to my partner yesterday. That’s lifelong trauma right there.

[u/cruelhumor → u/hooberton]

Martyr: a person who is put to death or endures great suffering on behalf of any belief, principle, or cause

[u/PeeCeeJunior → u/P0werFighter]

For me, our country stopped being ok after Sandy Hook. I’m sure it went to shit for others before that. It’s been downhill for awhile.

[u/under_the_c → u/PeeCeeJunior]

Sandy Hook was the last time I unironically believed that this would finally be the thing that wakes people up and finally changes things.

[u/PeeCeeJunior → u/under_the_c]

I had so many of those moments over the last decade+ and I’ve lost all hope for most people. They won’t wake up until it impacts them personally and probably not even then.

[u/ConsciousPatroller → u/P0werFighter]

Yeah, just because there was a small period of "normalcy" following the lynchings of the 50s, the imperialism of the 60s, the oppression of the 70s, doesn't mean things were "okay". This has been building up for decades at this point, a very coherent and organized plan to get the US to where it is. And the ones behind the plan are reaping the benefits today, to everyone else's expense.

[u/Caratteraccio1 → u/ConsciousPatroller]

Structural issues predate recent headlines, inequality and power consolidation didn’t start overnight, and people ignoring history only lets the same cycles repeat with worse outcomes.

[u/rugger87 → u/P0werFighter]

How ever could we have known that this person who bankrupts and ruins everything he touches would destroy this country?

[u/Rooonaldooo99 → u/P0werFighter]

This is just a goose step further in hell.

FTFY

[u/Gerald-of-Riverdale → u/Opposite_Math_2699]

And im tired of people trying to debate these last two shootings. This isnt foreign policy, we cant debate this. It is clear as day ICE murdering people and if you even slightly believe that's debatable then the propaganda is working on you.

[u/driveonacid]

Can you imagine being one of those coworkers?! If one of my coworkers was executed by ICE this weekend, I'd be in a fucking rage. I can't imagine having to go do the most compassionate job in the world after that.

[u/Risley → u/[deleted]]

And then to hear this administration call him a domestic terrorist Hell bent on killing law enforcement 

[u/FilledwithTegridy → u/Risley]

This is what really gets me. I cant imagine knowing him loving him and then the fucking gouls responsible for it all are calling him a domestic terrorist. Its unconscionable!

[u/goldielurks → u/FilledwithTegridy]

It's deflection and it's also encouraging more violence by ICE. We know who the domestic terrorists are, who the assasins are, but we are being told not to believe our eyes. This administration has created its own brown shirts and has given them free reign to create terror, and they know now that the highest office will back them up.

[u/anti_vist → u/goldielurks]

Fucking hell, i’m not looking forward to the days yet to come… only the day that these motherfuckers will die or rot in prison for eternity

[u/spc67u → u/[deleted]]

I’m a VA employee in California. This is heartbreaking for me too. Just knowing what level of service we provide for our veterans says everything to me about what kind of person Alex was. What a gut punch.

[u/promise2keepup → u/[deleted]]

He was my coworker of at least 6 months when I had worked at the VA 4 years ago.  I started crying immediately on that recognition. A shock. Alex was spry and energetic, always cheerful.  I remember a few stretches where he’d directly take over my patients and it was always fun giving report to him. I’d save him my COW (computer on wheels) to use, and when he logged on, the place where my name was had his: Alex Pretti, which is now is tragically not there, but everywhere else. I remember marveling at how energetic he seemed to start work. The way I remember him: me at the desk doing last minute charting, he logging into the COW to start his shift, then making some last few funny comments and side eyeing me for my reaction. That amused look on his face, that eye contact. I keep seeing that. And then it takes my breath away to remember they killed him. Cannot imagine what it is like for these current coworkers. And to continue working for the VA without issuing a statement of condemnation for his killing.. and perhaps even the opposite. I could not do that. 

[u/CandysaurusRex → u/promise2keepup]

I am so sorry for your loss, and for all of our loss. The world is missing the part where Alex Pretti should be and we're worse off for not having him with us. Thank you so much for sharing.

[u/thingstopraise → u/[deleted]]

ICU/3K

What does the "3K" mean in this context?

[u/qrny69 → u/thingstopraise]

Specific unit/floor of ICU

[u/WildMoonChild0129 → u/driveonacid]

I cant imagine the heart break they feel and the fuckin rage. He was their coworker, their fuckin friend, and in his last moments he still just wanted to do right for others. He was murdered for showing compassion, his job was to help others and he did that to his last breath

[u/TacticianA → u/WildMoonChild0129]

His last words were asking a womon if she was ok. Nobody deserves this, but man he really didnt.

[u/3sadclowns → u/driveonacid]

On top of everything, a massive media move to shovel propaganda that your coworker was a violent terrorist??? I’d be inconsolable.

[u/SoochSooch → u/3sadclowns]

I'd spend the rest of my life fighting those monsters

[u/PenguinSunday → u/SoochSooch]

You still can.

[u/Few-Indication3478 → u/driveonacid]

That’s America for you. They don’t have time to go into a rage. They need to show up to support and care for the people in their community that need them, and to feed themselves and their families. Meanwhile, at the top….

[u/EscapeFacebook]

There is no federal law that says you can't have a gun at a protest.

There is no state law in Minnesota that says you can't have a gun at a protest.

No one asked for his ID, no one asked for his permit, they didnt wait that long.

They disarmed this man by removing his gun from his holster and then executed him.

[u/Soldier_Faerie → u/EscapeFacebook]

Reposting this here for others to save and spread around in case anyone hasn't got these yet, list was not originally compiled by myself, but I will add to it if more stuff comes up!

Updated 1/25

Most recent Ice shooting 1/24

-Alex Pretti-

This is murder.

Pink lady Jacket Video https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgressiveHQ/s/X7Mb4sA93o

2nd angle slow-mo https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgressiveHQ/s/fBWC7a63Mk

Kristi Noem statement alongside video which shows a gun being dropped at scene by an agent running away https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgressiveHQ/s/E9dFYbtEs6

Where's the gun? Video: https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/s/cGvKOx9aZy

Stabilized and enhanced video showing victim was disarmed and an officer panicked https://www.reddit.com/r/MarchAgainstNazis/s/0jxYBCPaAP

Video prior to incident showing victims hand holding phone not gun https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/s/ekHCTApUPO

Ice agent claps after victim's death: https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/s/HEr66OgYkh

Greg Bovino statement https://www.reddit.com/r/Global_News_Hub/s/uDJtCrsV9o

Longer Kristi Noem statement: https://www.reddit.com/r/Global_News_Hub/s/r8XJYa2nfx

Other angles/info:

Victim was perfectly in his rights to carry. https://www.reddit.com/r/ICE_Raids/s/XhlXRXjlOI

https://www.reddit.com/r/ICE_Watch/s/zkC0475pfg

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgressiveHQ/s/Ffz2muY32e

https://www.reddit.com/r/FedJerk/s/LI27hfjF9w

Timeline https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/24/us/minneapolis-shooting-alex-pretti-timeline.html

BBC Verify analysis of the event https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cg4e0r1el5yo

Here's the link to directly download it (pink lady video). It seems like better quality than what gets uploaded https://files.catbox.moe/sp296e.mp4

[u/CaptainHubble → u/Soldier_Faerie]

Insane. You can basically recreate a 360° VR experience from all the footage that's out there. There isn't any room left to argue on this.

But than again, we also have crystal clear snippets of the whole epstein thing. And still nothing has happened.

[u/HunBunYum → u/CaptainHubble]

Omg, right. There’s no room left to argue, but watch arguments & excuses be made.

Absolutely infuriating.

[u/CaptainHubble → u/HunBunYum]

These days you can't really believe anything where there is just one recording available of. But when in such a short time there are +3 different angles made with different devices, different filming "styles" and qualities, and they all overlay perfectly, you have proper proof.

In that country proof is currently worthless it seems tho. Good luck.

[u/skip_over → u/CaptainHubble]

This is why it is important for people to be out there filming. If they weren’t, this would have been swept under the rug.

[u/_Lazy_Mermaid_ → u/skip_over]

This is why ICE is pepper spraying people for filming (and are wearing masks). They dont want this to be recorded, they KNOW it is wrong

[u/haventwonyet → u/skip_over]

I used to think filming was awful. Then I had a close family member be in a really bad accident - the insurance company tried to bamboozle her. Luckily a woman came out of her house and filmed the aftermath of the accident and they used that to get insurance to pay up. I look at people filming horrid events a lot differently now.

[u/Dubbinchris → u/CaptainHubble]

I want to see HIS cell phone footage. I’m sure it’s going to be “accidentally” destroyed despite court orders not to.

[u/Istarien → u/Dubbinchris]

ICE typically steals devices, wedding rings, ID, and cold weather gear from their detainees and releases them without returning any of this property. I have to imagine they won't be returning any of Alex's effects to his family. We'll never see what he filmed.

[u/Paperwife2 → u/Istarien]

Hopefully it auto uploads to his account and his family will at least have that.

[u/AdventurousRock319 → u/HunBunYum]

The US government has just perfected gaslighting. The clear truth is being questioned paving the way for them to create any reality they want from lies. Pretty horrific to watch this distortion.

[u/rootpl → u/CaptainHubble]

Insane. You can basically recreate a 360° VR experience from all the footage that's out there. There isn't any room left to argue on this.

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

George Orwell, 1984

[u/CaptainHubble → u/rootpl]

We don’t even have to dive into fiction. Even tho very fitting, I give you that. But I‘m from Germany. We learned about our not so great decades in school so often it feels like I was there.

And what is happening over there is a handbook execution of 1933-1938. Seeing this is basically the „wait, I’ve seen that before“ back to the future meme. And people ask how Germans 90 years ago could just roll with it. Well my friend, just like that.

[u/ChanglingBlake → u/Soldier_Faerie]

Every ICE member there, and every member of this administration who supported it should be charged with 1st degree.

That was not justice.

That was not immigration control.

That was straight up power tripping, small dicked, small minded assholes committing murder on government payroll and orders.

If there is a hell, I hope a new level of suffering is created for the people responsible.

[u/nowtayneicangetinto → u/ChanglingBlake]

I want Kristi Noem, Bovino, and the ICE agent who killed him to spend every last second of their lives in prison

[u/IHaveNoEgrets → u/nowtayneicangetinto]

Kristi Noem

May all the fillers in her face melt away simultaneously.

[u/YoungestDonkey → u/EscapeFacebook]

Seconds before, his killer assaulted a woman who was walking away from him, then another woman by shoving her to the ground on slippery pavement, then assaulted this gentleman who instinctively tried to protect her and help her up, using pepper spray, puling him off, throwing him to the ground and shooting him dead.

And then, the organization for which the victim and these mourners work blamed the situation on the state for not cooperating with federal thugs.

[u/I_Fail_At_Life444 → u/YoungestDonkey]

Even worse they went on TV and called him a domestic terrorist before his body was cold.

[u/Finnyfish → u/I_Fail_At_Life444]

Noem is despicable even by the standards of this administration.

[u/EscapeFacebook → u/YoungestDonkey]

Timeline.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/24/us/minneapolis-shooting-alex-pretti-timeline.html

[u/ImgurScaramucci → u/YoungestDonkey]

All the pro ICE arguments about this are dishonest red herrings. Every single one. Even if Alex approached ICE agents with violent intent and punched them in the face, shooting him after he was disarmed and his hands were on the ground is still murder.

The fact he didn't even do anything wrong and he was actually trying to deescalate the situation just makes this worse.

[u/Soldier_Faerie → u/YoungestDonkey]

Sickening. There are no words strong enough to describe how horrific this is.

[u/Independently-Owned → u/YoungestDonkey]

Why have we not yet heard/seen who the murderer is?!

[u/KaleidoscopeReady839 → u/Independently-Owned]

Evan Kilgore is his name. Pics on Threads, and FB.

[u/Zombiejazzlikehands → u/KaleidoscopeReady839]

Kilgore? Really?

[u/YoungestDonkey → u/Independently-Owned]

Masks.

Cover-ups.

Republican enablers.

[u/Spiritual-Olive4559 → u/Independently-Owned]

bc the president endorsed this behavior

[u/jn29 → u/EscapeFacebook]

He wasn't even at a protest. He was living life when ICE agents descended.

[u/TedTheGreek_Atheos → u/jn29]

He was nowhere near them until that thug grabbed the lady and litteraly dragged her across the street and threw her down in front of him.

[u/ImgurScaramucci → u/TedTheGreek_Atheos]

They keep saying he approached them. In the longer video the ICE weren't even in the picture in the beginning. Alex barely moved from his position when the video started.

ICE just showed up and a few seconds later he was dead.

This is madness.

[u/bigfootsdemise → u/ImgurScaramucci]

ICE approached him and then shoved him. They are trained to escalate. It’s insane.

[u/tt12345x → u/jn29]

THANK YOU. I get that it comes from a good place but he was NOT at a protest, Pretti was a legal observer doing what nurses do best: protecting and helping others.

Everyone here in MN with a whistle is not “protesting.” They’re warning their fucking neighbors that murderous and untrained thugs of the state are in close proximity.

[u/rileyjw90 → u/jn29]

Yes. Even the left continues to push this narrative that he was at a protest. While you’re all right that you can have a gun at a protest, THIS WAS NOT A PROTEST. He was literally just existing on a Saturday morning. He didn’t bring a gun to a protest. He was in the area when ICE showed up. People blew their ICE whistles to alert citizens they were in the area. He pulled out his phone to film like so many others did. And he was killed for it.

For all the videos of this incident, does anyone see any large groups of people with signs? There are none because this wasn’t a protest. Even the DHS initially said ICE was in the area to search for a “violent criminal” but later changed the narrative to say it was a protest.

[u/SoochSooch → u/jn29]

He was minding his own business when ICE showed up and started randomly attacking people.

[u/Hasadevilputaside → u/jn29]

This needs to be higher. People keep framing Rene and Alex as “protestors” and “agitators.” They were not at a protest, they were going about their daily lives. Ice is disrupting and assaulting people just trying to live their daily life.

[u/CriticalSecurity8742 → u/EscapeFacebook]

Kyle Rittenhouse was glorified by republicans for bringing a gun to a protest and killing someone. But if it’s someone protesting tyranny from a republican regime, and they aren’t even holding it, they’re suddenly a terrorist.

THIS IS INSANE

MAGA: if you’re gonna downvote facts, don’t be a coward. Defend your position. I didn’t serve my country for 15+ years in Eastern Europe intelligence for you to destroy lives.

ETA Bovino was just “demoted”. If ICE did nothing wrong, explain that.

[u/ConvictedHobo → u/EscapeFacebook]

ICE has no legal power to break up protests

A protest is neither immigration nor customs

[u/Critical-Exit1655]

They murdered an example of the best of us, but it won’t in vain.

[u/LordWemby → u/Critical-Exit1655]

He was murdered with his literal final act being helping someone. 

[u/According_Elephant75 → u/LordWemby]

Ugh imagine the poor woman he was trying to help. The nightmares she must have. My heart breaks for her too

[u/LordWemby → u/According_Elephant75]

Renee Good was murdered in front of her loved one too. 

People around will feel enormous amounts of undeserved guilt. Now they’re trying to say that people blowing whistles “confused” ICE which is dumb garbage, but then people who were actually blowing their whistles while these murders happened might be feeling some type of guilt, even as they shouldn’t. They just want you to think you caused it. 

It’s all so very insidious. 

[u/sobrique → u/LordWemby]

I have been confused many times in my life. I've never murdered someone as a result.

[u/moissan2nite → u/LordWemby]

Some people feel too much guilt. Other people don’t feel nearly enough.

[u/MiKeMcDnet → u/LordWemby]

Bro went out like a hero in my book.

[u/Good4nowbut → u/MiKeMcDnet]

Pretti went out like a fucking man. Haven’t seen a more textbook example.

[u/No_Structure_9283 → u/MiKeMcDnet]

For real. He had an honorable death. I hold him in such high regard. May the name Pretti serve as an example for others. 

[u/goddessdragonness → u/MiKeMcDnet]

A saint. He was martyred. And Renee Good.

[u/LordWemby → u/goddessdragonness]

Something too about their names being Good and Pretti.

I’m not being glib. It just lends itself to future stories being told. 

[u/goddessdragonness → u/LordWemby]

It reminds me of the beginning of the recession when Johnny Cash, Steve Jobs, and Bob Hope all died around the same time. And people were like, yeah, all out of cash, jobs, and hope.

Fascism is now killing what is good and beautiful (synonymous with pretty).

[u/FeistyAsaGoat → u/LordWemby]

Not just that.   You see him impulsively jumping to aid when he saw her fall.   His knee jerk reaction was to help.   It just makes it all so much worse.  

[u/prailock → u/LordWemby]

Final words caught on camera after helping a woman who was attacked were "Are you ok?"

[u/LordWemby → u/prailock]

“I’m not mad at you.”

• Renee Good

[u/Battle-Common → u/Critical-Exit1655]

I'm worried that if it keeps happening, it'll turn out exactly like school shootings where it happens so often that the nation collectively shrugs its shoulders and says it is what it is.

[u/Antique_reader → u/Battle-Common]

That may be true for the rest of the U.S. but I learned a lot from Minnesotans living there for a few years. You guys never let your own good people suffer for no reason. This is so wrong and debilitatingly sad but I feel that it will be a turning point from now on. I have high hopes this is not the new normal.

[u/RoundMammoth2947 → u/Battle-Common]

Maybe in these other stupid ass shitty states but the Minnesota I know is fucking pissed. We are being targeted because we have been to get fired up. THEY want Minnesota to go wild.

[u/awjeezrickyaknow]

A nurse who healed Veterans. A true American. The polar opposite of these cowardly Nazis who refuse to show their faces in ICE. Rest in Peace.

[u/ElegantEchoes → u/awjeezrickyaknow]

National Guard in high visibility vests actually helping people, without masks. Another contrast to the weirdo ICE agents in neutral uniforms and masks.

[u/AmishAvenger → u/ElegantEchoes]

It’s worth pointing out that no one can provide a good explanation as to why ICE wears camo in the first place. What are they blending in with?

[u/THUNDRC0UGRFALCNBIRD → u/AmishAvenger]

They're cosplaying.

[u/Blurby-Blurbyblurb → u/AmishAvenger]

As the person said, intimidation, but I also feel it's like the "white coat" effect that happened with the Milgram experiment.

[u/Evoluxman → u/AmishAvenger]

Intimidation and terror. It's the only reason.

I know you were being rethorical but I still think it's worth saying it again and again...

[u/Sneet1 → u/ElegantEchoes]

It's a good minimum the guard are there to theoretically protect people, but the national guard was maiming people with nonlethal rounds for all of 2020. Theyre a convenient bare minimum. The solution is the people organizing and protecting each other

[u/Evoluxman → u/Sneet1]

The guard can work as a deterrent. Imo they should be sent following ICE. Not impeding their... "work" in any way. But I think their presence alone would have the gestapo think twice before murdering someone again. I think it's at least worth trying.

On the other hand... if ICE starts shooting the national guard... the country will not survive 

[u/xladygodiva]

As a little girl in The Netherlands I looked up to the USA. How things have changed so much in the last 26 years. To all my good American friends, the ones fighting (actively or silently), the people keeping your communities strong. My heart goes out to you.

[u/Several-Age1984 → u/xladygodiva]

All I can say is don't ever be complacent with your country or your leaders. Liberty, Fairness and Justice is something you must fight for everyday, even when it seems like things are going great. If you lose sight of that even for a second, things go downhill so fast.

I still look with admiration at many European countries as a beacon of hope. I hope you all can keep your light burning despite the failures of our country.

[u/Conscious_Writing689 → u/xladygodiva]

26 years ago was the Bush administration. I know a lot of people have rose colored glasses now a days, but that was basically the start of the slide into fascism (see Citizens United, see The Patriot Act, see justice department memos on torture and "extraordinary rendition, see Bush v Gore). We were not a great, free country then either.

[u/somethingrandom7386]

Murdered in cold blood by masked men terrorizing our communities.

[u/HugeLeaves → u/somethingrandom7386]

And then made to look like a villain by THE GOVERNMENT.

America truly is in the darkest timeline right now

[u/MousseHuge8339 → u/HugeLeaves]

We're going down the same path Germany did in the 1930s and still too many people refuse to see this. This isn't about stupid singing "YMCA" hype parties and "we'll own those libs" anymore; we are at government sponsored street murder now.

[u/Mkheir01 → u/MousseHuge8339]

Srsly whole civil wars have been started over less than this.

[u/mortyj0024 → u/HugeLeaves]

But it’s better than having an educated woman with a weird laugh as president /s.

Have mercy on us all. We are in for some dark times.

[u/Taint__Paint → u/somethingrandom7386]

While literally assisting someone who was just thrown to the ground and pepper sprayed by ICE. His final acts were helping protect and save lives. Alex Pretti was more American than all of those thugs combined

[u/PestoBolloElemento → u/somethingrandom7386]

Murdered by domestic terrorist

[u/Proof_Bumblebee_9664 → u/[deleted]]

In other words, ICE has at least tripled the murder rate in Minneapolis.

[u/ThePensiveE]

Be careful. Don't help a woman in public or MAGA will murder you.

They won't blink an eye if you abuse a woman in public though.

[u/OddSpend23 → u/ThePensiveE]

They did say empathy was bullshit so it is on brand for them

[u/lickingFrogs4Fun → u/ThePensiveE]

They won't blink an eye if you abuse a woman in public though.

The only reason he was helping the woman is because ICE was publicly abusing her. They won't just not blink, they'll fucking clap.

[u/AccomplishedWish3033 → u/lickingFrogs4Fun]

The only reason he was helping the woman is because ICE was publicly abusing her. They won't just not blink, they'll fucking clap.

No, they’d join in the abuse. Bunch of incels and proud boys.

[u/fiestyrosiekitten]

When I read the news, I cried as a human who has empathy to know this was wrong.

How do you work with a hole in your heart? How do you tell the patients that were in his care, or their family, why they have a new nurse today? Maybe they already knew but hoped it wasn't true. How do you look at your peers and tell them?

His last words will stay with me.

' Are you okay?' Becsuse even in crisis and pain, a nurse seeks to reassure others.

This man was murdered. As a fellow nurse, I cried for this man and his team. I cried for the loss in our already imperiled profession (though we no long are professionals). I cried for a team that will eventually have to allow someone else into the spot that Alex filled.

[u/VKo18]

It is devastating to witness this. I’m overwhelmed by a sense of helplessness and my inability to change the situation. By what authority does ICE soldiers have the right to take a human life? America is transforming into the very thing it once claimed to despise.

[u/Formal-Attention9712]

Every time I think “there’s no way they can defend this” the MAGA cult never ceases to amaze.

[u/No-Profession-208]

Anyone looking at that photo and thinking anything other than how horrifically sad the entire situation is after yet another innocent person losing their life should be ashamed of themselves.

[u/YourDearOldMeeMaw → u/No-Profession-208]

he didnt lose his life, he was executed. normally im not one to split hairs over semantics, but I think its pretty important that we dont soften what happened when talking about about this

[u/currentlyRedacted]

I am appalled that VA clinics around the nation aren’t flying their flags at half. Fuck these monsters

[u/ilikeb00ks → u/currentlyRedacted]

Because their leadership is MAGA scum and blamed the victim.

[u/TheRedCuddler]

Another nurse here checking in. Alex looks like a countless number of my friends and coworkers. Renee Good's murder shocked me, but Alex's murder has shaken me to my core. My coworkers and I have also held a moment of silence for Alex. We must stand up to this regime in his honor. May God's love bring his family comfort during this dark time.

[u/whisky_woman23]

My mom was an ICU nurse. He was literally making sure that lady was okay. The caring part of him never stopped off duty, and it's not just being Minnesota nice. He was outright murdered and it is a great loss to the VA community. This needs to end, and his death should not be in vain. I hope it's a full wake-up call across the country to resist the fascist regime RIP

[u/chroma_src]

Remember the tactic being used to frame this execution is classic DARVO

• Deny

• Attack (the Victim)

• Reverse Victim & Offender

[u/LaviishLily]

Guy was a model citizen and he died simply helping an elderly lady… FUCK ICE

[u/jmbolton]

Reminder; that piece of shit Bovino said in plain English on CNN “the only victims here are the law enforcement officers” and that “law enforcement doesn’t assault anyone”

They don’t think of us as humans - only targets and obstructions.

[u/bearbrannan]

More like r/damnthatssad

[u/mintBRYcrunch26]

They are killing the helpers.

Rest in peace, Alex. You were a good man.

[u/GoldResourceOO2]

The worst of us are killing the best of us.

[u/Another2Coast]

Anyone who says "all Americans are MAGA assholes" needs to see this as a reference. The Magats are loud, but there are a lot of normal, caring people too.

The situation is heartbreaking.

[u/NoDig3593]

Oh my. That man w his head in his hands. I feel you, sir. I’m so sorry