ICE SHOOTING

JimmyinSD wrote:

no offense,  but where were you on the last administration and Dem party manipulating social media and disseminating fake news over the last decade?  I dont think this picture is a good look,   but this is small potatoes to the tampering with facts and news from those controlling the media and such from russia gate, j6, covid, etc etc etc.

Past sins dont give current ones a pass and past sins are still sins even after time has passed. Hell, they gotta go back to colonial days. 

IMO, this whole surge is politically motivated (how many illegals are really here in MN at the end of the day???) I mean it's gotta be minuscule vs other states right? Maybe I'm wrong? It wouldn't be the first (or last) time. 

In retrospect, I think MN was ripe for a political war; a declared sanctuary state, over indexes on Somalis, rampant Medicaid fraud, Walz, and a state that didnt vote Trumps way in 16, 20 or 24. 

I think part of the success of the surge will hinge on public opinion and perceptions going forward. I'm not sure if Washington's winning that or not? I guess that depends on what poll u read and what news you watch.

All that said, at the end of the day, I think a lot of us up here look forward to going back to fly-over country. We gotta focus our attention on healing, get at the fraud & criminals/systems that allowed it and elect a new Gov. 

Stay warm this bone chilling weekend...

purplefaithful wrote:

Past sins dont give current ones a pass and past sins are still sins even after time has passed. Hell, they gotta go back to colonial days. 

IMO, this whole surge is politically motivated (how many illegals are really here in MN at the end of the day???) I mean it's gotta be minuscule vs other states right? Maybe I'm wrong? It wouldn't be the first (or last) time. 

In retrospect, I think MN was ripe for a political war; a declared sanctuary state, over indexes on Somalis, rampant Medicaid fraud, Walz, and a state that didnt vote Trumps way in 16, 20 or 24. 

I think part of the success of the surge will hinge on public opinion and perceptions going forward. I'm not sure if Washington's winning that or not? I guess that depends on what poll u read and what news you watch.

All that said, at the end of the day, I think a lot of us up here look forward to going back to fly-over country. We gotta focus our attention on healing, get at the fraud & criminals/systems that allowed it and elect a new Gov. 

Stay warm this bone chilling weekend...

What made it political were the defiant actions of your leadership inviting illegals and offering them a safe space.  There wouldn't have been the need for nearly as many ICE and other federal agencies agents if your state and local law enforcement would have been willing/allowed to assist in operations to begin with.  Why were they not allowed to assist?  I bet they assisted under Obama and Biden... politics,  so who has made it political,  the media and the defiant dems.

As fsr as past sins.... doesnt that really depend on who the sinner is,  or current sins,  that was my point.  You were largely  silent or dismissive to the sins of those you support, but now take issue with a little thing like this?  The white house didnt edit the photo,   all they did was share it,  IMO its petty and juvenile and not a good look for the administration,   but when the story line is so slanted to begin with,  im hardly losing sleep over some fucking loon getting smeared a little.  Imagine a white man openly disrupting Muslim worship,  how would that get played?  How hard would Tucker Carlson burn if he was involved like lemon?  The double standard is a big problem we have in this country, and until we see some real concern for sins of the dems by the dems,  I dont see a lot of raised expectations from the right either.

And yes,   I am hoping to see some peace find its way to the streets and neighborhoods of Minny soon.

JimmyinSD wrote:

What made it political were the defiant actions of your leadership inviting illegals and offering them a safe space.  There wouldn't have been the need for nearly as many ICE and other federal agencies agents if your state and local law enforcement would have been willing/allowed to assist in operations to begin with.  Why were they not allowed to assist?  I bet they assisted under Obama and Biden... politics,  so who has made it political,  the media and the defiant dems.

As fsr as past sins.... doesnt that really depend on who the sinner is,  or current sins,  that was my point.  You were largely  silent or dismissive to the sins of those you support, but now take issue with a little thing like this?  The white house didnt edit the photo,   all they did was share it,  IMO its petty and juvenile and not a good look for the administration,   but when the story line is so slanted to begin with,  im hardly losing sleep over some fucking loon getting smeared a little.  Imagine a white man openly disrupting Muslim worship,  how would that get played?  How hard would Tucker Carlson burn if he was involved like lemon?  The double standard is a big problem we have in this country, and until we see some real concern for sins of the dems by the dems,  I dont see a lot of raised expectations from the right either.

And yes,   I am hoping to see some peace find its way to the streets and neighborhoods of Minny soon.

I see another person was shot and killed by an ICE agent in South Mpls this morning. More to come on that one.

There is no justification for DHS/ICE coming in here in the scale they have and how they have attempted to do their jobs. I'm not convinced Noem/Potus are happy with how this has gone down and I strongly believe most of USA view it with concern, at least those that aren't deep Maga in their beliefs.

Again, this is NOT about illegal immigrants or not, ridding the country of the worst of the worst, this is about HOW ICE is doing their job in MN.

We simply want them to leave now.

The whole macro picture in this country is a big olde swirl of the same shit imo. Like a turd going down the toilet the morning after a big Taco Bell dinner. These are the same issues /differences our country has been dealing with for a long time now.

ITs just amplified with social media and the overall temp in the country is hotter with a potus who leads with agitation and disruption (domestically and globally). I mean who would have ever thought an American President would call out a whole race of people, label them garbage and tell them to leave? It's just insanity. And it's shameful that nobody on that side of the aisle said one word. Not even the Republicans here in Minny.

Yup, I'm with you in hoping for peace in Minny soon and thoughts/prayers to the next city in the cross-hairs. It's just a matter of where/when. We wont have a dog in the next fight, but we in MN will do what we can to support em.

purplefaithful wrote:

I see another person was shot and killed by an ICE agent in South Mpls this morning. More to come on that one.

There is no justification for DHS/ICE coming in here in the scale they have and how they have attempted to do their jobs. I'm not convinced Noem/Potus are happy with how this has gone down and I strongly believe most of USA view it with concern, at least those that aren't deep Maga in their beliefs.

Again, this is NOT about illegal immigrants or not, ridding the country of the worst of the worst or not, this is about HOW ICE is doing their job in MN. We simply want them to leave now.

The whole macro picture in this country is a big olde swirl of the same shit imo. Like a turd going down the toilet the morning after a big Taco Bell dinner. These are the same issues /differences our country has been dealing with for a long time now.

ITs just amplified with social media and the overall temp in the country is hotter with a potus who leads with agitation and disruption (domestically and globally). I mean who would have ever thought an American President would call out a whole race of people, label them garbage and tell them to leave? It's just insanity. And it's shameful that nobody on that side of the aisle said one word. Not even the Republicans here in Minny.

Yup, I'm with you in hoping for peace in Minny soon and thoughts/prayers to the next city in the cross-hairs. It's just a matter of where/when. We wont have a dog in the next fight, but we in MN will do what we can to support em.

Good to see walz ratcheting things up as usual.   I agree trumps painting with a wide brush is sickening,   but is it more sickening than all the labels that have been thrown at conservatives the last decade by liberals  and their media?  Not really.  You want ICE out of MN,  tell your politicians to quit inviting the illegals and encourage local LEOs to work with the feds to make the situation safer for all.

I dont like how its turning out,    but its not ICE agents fault that minny became a safe haven for criminals and the local LEOs were told to stand down.  This is the result of decades of liberal ideals creating a cesspool of corruption and crime.  I am sure there a sone wonderful Somalians,  but how many are assimilating into our culture vs trying to turn the US into another Mogadishu?  

Its not just a Minnesota problem, it travels,  we have seen significant increases in crime issues along our border with MN over the last decade,  perhaps a sign of the times,  or perhaps just a urban problem that is sprawling.

JimmyinSD wrote:

Good to see walz ratcheting things up as usual.   I agree trumps painting with a wide brush is sickening,   but is it more sickening than all the labels that have been thrown at conservatives the last decade by liberals  and their media?  Not really.  You want ICE out of MN,  tell your politicians to quit inviting the illegals and encourage local LEOs to work with the feds to make the situation safer for all.

I dont like how its turning out,    but its not ICE agents fault that minny became a safe haven for criminals and the local LEOs were told to stand down.  This is the result of decades of liberal ideals creating a cesspool of corruption and crime.  I am sure there a sone wonderful Somalians,  but how many are assimilating into our culture vs trying to turn the US into another Mogadishu?  

Its not just a Minnesota problem, it travels,  we have seen significant increases in crime issues along our border with MN over the last decade,  perhaps a sign of the times,  or perhaps just a urban problem that is sprawling.

Actually crime was on the down-turn here in Mpls/St Paul...

Hey, we disagree, but respectfully and I appreciate how you approach tough discussions. 

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Not sure if this one will make everyones media..

It's so representative of  Minnesota nice too. Im glad to see it's still in our bonz.

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The ICE vehicle had barely made it two blocks when something went wrong.

Tippy Amundson, 39, and Heather Zemien, 55, were sitting handcuffed in the back seat of a three-row SUV on the afternoon of Jan. 22 in Brooklyn Park, detained by federal immigration agents and heading toward the Whipple Federal Building. The third row had been folded down. One agent sat behind them without a seat belt. Two others were in front.

They were stopped at a light when the agent in the front passenger seat said out loud that he wasn’t feeling well.

Then his body began to tilt. His arms flailed. His words dissolved into sounds that didn’t make sense.

“To us, it was obvious,” Amundson said. “It wasn’t obvious to them.”

Amundson and Zemien were the only ones who recognized that the man was having a seizure. They spoke up immediately, telling the driver to pull over and telling the agents to call 911. When nothing happened, they repeated it, louder and more urgently.

The account that follows is based on interviews with Amundson and Zemien. Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not respond to requests for information about the incident or questions about its medical and safety protocols.

Amundson and Zemien said they were advised by attorneys not to talk about why they were being held.

The SUV lurched over a curb and came to rest at an angle on the sidewalk near Welcome Avenue, just off a busy stretch by an Aldi. Amundson could hear the agent’s tongue and fluids blocking his airway. She asked to be uncuffed.

“He’s going to stop breathing,” she told them.

Amundson, a kindergarten teacher who has received CPR and first-aid training through school emergency planning, moved without hesitation once the cuffs came off. The agents stepped out of the vehicle, leaving the driver’s door open, the engine running and the keys inside. Weapons were still in reach.

Amundson ran around the car and knelt beside the agent, trying to turn him onto his side. She spoke to him calmly, telling him he was safe and that help was coming. She said she was aware that people having seizures can often hear what’s being said around them.

When he began to lose consciousness, she moved his gun from its holster so she could position him properly. She cradled his head as another seizure came.

Zemien, a personal care attendant, grabbed one of the agents’ tactical vests from the ground, rolled it up and slid it under his head to keep his airway open. She told the agents to shut the car doors so he wouldn’t lose body heat.

“He had two more seizures after that,” Zemien said. “We had to tell them every step of the way what to do.”

By the time emergency medical responders arrived, the women had been holding the agent steady for several minutes. They were detained but acting as first responders to the man who had detained them.

Once the agent was transferred to medical care, Amundson and Zemien were placed into another vehicle and driven to Whipple anyway.

“I asked if we could just go home,” Amundson said. “I said, ‘We just saved his life. Is that cool with you?’ And they said no.”

On the drive, Amundson asked when they would be allowed to call a lawyer. An agent told her they “should” be able to at Whipple but said he didn’t really know the policy. After a pause, he added that because they had helped one of the agents, they could call one person.

Zemien called her attorney. By then, their support network was already mobilizing. Using a voice command to text a message during the detention, Amundson had managed to alert her husband, who contacted their state representative. Legal paperwork was already being gathered. A meeting at Whipple was already being arranged.

A commanding officer eventually approached them.

“We’re releasing you to your counsel and to your state representative,” the officer said, according to Amundson. “But you need to tell everybody that we treated you kindly.”
They were driven to the front of the Whipple Federal Building and released into their representative’s car.

What stayed with Amundson most, she said, was not the adrenaline of the moment but the realization that came while she was holding the agent’s head in her hands and keeping his airway open.

“I was hit so hard with the fact that this man would not do this for me,” she said.

Her mind went immediately to Renee Good.

Earlier this month, Good, a citizen observer and U.S. citizen, was shot three times by an ICE agent during an enforcement action in Minneapolis. According to witnesses and officials, a person who identified themselves as a medic was not permitted to provide care after the shooting. Agents said ICE had its own medical personnel. Several minutes passed before aid was rendered. Good died at the scene.

ICE has said its agents followed protocol.

The two women said the contrast between the incidents was difficult to ignore.

“We were willing to do for this man, this human, what they were not willing to do for Renee Good,” Zemien said.

“It’s important for people to know how ill-prepared they are,” Amundson said. “And how untrained.”

Strib

purplefaithful wrote:

Actually crime was on the down-turn here in Mpls/St Paul...

Hey, we disagree, but respectfully and I appreciate how you approach tough discussions. 

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Not sure if this one will make everyones media..

It's so representative of  Minnesota nice too. Im glad to see it's still in our bonz.

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The ICE vehicle had barely made it two blocks when something went wrong.

Tippy Amundson, 39, and Heather Zemien, 55, were sitting handcuffed in the back seat of a three-row SUV on the afternoon of Jan. 22 in Brooklyn Park, detained by federal immigration agents and heading toward the Whipple Federal Building. The third row had been folded down. One agent sat behind them without a seat belt. Two others were in front.

They were stopped at a light when the agent in the front passenger seat said out loud that he wasn’t feeling well.

Then his body began to tilt. His arms flailed. His words dissolved into sounds that didn’t make sense.

“To us, it was obvious,” Amundson said. “It wasn’t obvious to them.”

Amundson and Zemien were the only ones who recognized that the man was having a seizure. They spoke up immediately, telling the driver to pull over and telling the agents to call 911. When nothing happened, they repeated it, louder and more urgently.

The account that follows is based on interviews with Amundson and Zemien. Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not respond to requests for information about the incident or questions about its medical and safety protocols.

Amundson and Zemien said they were advised by attorneys not to talk about why they were being held.

The SUV lurched over a curb and came to rest at an angle on the sidewalk near Welcome Avenue, just off a busy stretch by an Aldi. Amundson could hear the agent’s tongue and fluids blocking his airway. She asked to be uncuffed.

“He’s going to stop breathing,” she told them.

Amundson, a kindergarten teacher who has received CPR and first-aid training through school emergency planning, moved without hesitation once the cuffs came off. The agents stepped out of the vehicle, leaving the driver’s door open, the engine running and the keys inside. Weapons were still in reach.

Amundson ran around the car and knelt beside the agent, trying to turn him onto his side. She spoke to him calmly, telling him he was safe and that help was coming. She said she was aware that people having seizures can often hear what’s being said around them.

When he began to lose consciousness, she moved his gun from its holster so she could position him properly. She cradled his head as another seizure came.

Zemien, a personal care attendant, grabbed one of the agents’ tactical vests from the ground, rolled it up and slid it under his head to keep his airway open. She told the agents to shut the car doors so he wouldn’t lose body heat.

“He had two more seizures after that,” Zemien said. “We had to tell them every step of the way what to do.”

By the time emergency medical responders arrived, the women had been holding the agent steady for several minutes. They were detained but acting as first responders to the man who had detained them.

Once the agent was transferred to medical care, Amundson and Zemien were placed into another vehicle and driven to Whipple anyway.

“I asked if we could just go home,” Amundson said. “I said, ‘We just saved his life. Is that cool with you?’ And they said no.”

On the drive, Amundson asked when they would be allowed to call a lawyer. An agent told her they “should” be able to at Whipple but said he didn’t really know the policy. After a pause, he added that because they had helped one of the agents, they could call one person.

Zemien called her attorney. By then, their support network was already mobilizing. Using a voice command to text a message during the detention, Amundson had managed to alert her husband, who contacted their state representative. Legal paperwork was already being gathered. A meeting at Whipple was already being arranged.

A commanding officer eventually approached them.

“We’re releasing you to your counsel and to your state representative,” the officer said, according to Amundson. “But you need to tell everybody that we treated you kindly.”
They were driven to the front of the Whipple Federal Building and released into their representative’s car.

What stayed with Amundson most, she said, was not the adrenaline of the moment but the realization that came while she was holding the agent’s head in her hands and keeping his airway open.

“I was hit so hard with the fact that this man would not do this for me,” she said.

Her mind went immediately to Renee Good.

Earlier this month, Good, a citizen observer and U.S. citizen, was shot three times by an ICE agent during an enforcement action in Minneapolis. According to witnesses and officials, a person who identified themselves as a medic was not permitted to provide care after the shooting. Agents said ICE had its own medical personnel. Several minutes passed before aid was rendered. Good died at the scene.

ICE has said its agents followed protocol.

The two women said the contrast between the incidents was difficult to ignore.

“We were willing to do for this man, this human, what they were not willing to do for Renee Good,” Zemien said.

“It’s important for people to know how ill-prepared they are,” Amundson said. “And how untrained.”

Strib

Crime statistics are skewed because liberal AGs wont do their jobs and prosecute the criminals.  ( regardless of color, race, or whatever)  also the legalization of pot has lowered the stats,  different discussion there as well.

JimmyinSD wrote:

Crime statistics are skewed because liberal AGs wont do their jobs and prosecute the criminals.  ( regardless of color, race, or whatever)  also the legalization of pot has lowered the stats,  different discussion there as well.

I dont know about liberal AG's not doing their jobs or not, that sounds a bit of a political lens vs anything factual...I can tell you that I am personally glad Moriarity is leaving soon as a Hennepin County Prosecutor. I think she was too lenient and had a defender background when hired - not the mindset u want in a prosecutor for sure.

But I can cite these stats off the interwebs regarding Mpls specifically:

Homicides: Down from 77 in 2024 to 64 in 2025, and significantly lower than peak levels in 2021.
Shootings: 91 victims in 2025, down from 135 in 2024, marking the lowest number of shooting victims in North Minneapolis ever recorded.
Robberies: Decreased by 50% from its 2021 peak.
Carjackings: Also saw substantial drops of 50-70% compared to prior years.
Auto Theft: Down 26% from recent years, though still a challenge.
Source: Google AI

Chief O'Hara and his local LEO is doing an exemplary job and sadly this surge is just trashing the goodwill they have worked so hard to gain with the citizens. Not only that, it's Okeeping them from doing their day job of protecting streets, neighborhoods from local crime.

Another armed brainiac (this time a 9mm not a Honda Pilot) interferes with federal law enforcement executing their duties.
Doesnt end well.

savannahskol wrote:
Another armed brainiac (this time a 9mm not a Honda Pilot) interferes with federal law enforcement executing their duties.  Doesnt end well. 

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There is still alot to unpack here, not sure I'm seeing where those 6 guys felt threatened enough to take a life, but I am not an expert by any means.

I sure wish he would have left that 9mm at home. Regardless as to whether he had a permit to carry or not (which he did.)

purplefaithful wrote:

There is still alot to unpack here, but I sure wish he would have left that 9mm at home. Regardless as to whether he had a permit to carry or not (which he did.)

Aren't all the CC law's for this?   

Just saw the lady in Pink Video.
I guess I have to figure out what tyranny is, N95 masks are and this is law enforcement, I guess.

Hang in there PF

Dr. Dimitri Drekonja, a friend and fellow colleague of Alex Pretti’s from the Minneapolis VA, described Pretti as a caring and funny ICU nurse who treated the hospital’s most critically ill veterans.

“He was a kind, friendly, jokey person,” Drekonja told the Minnesota Star Tribune.

“Regardless of which hospital you're in, taking a job in the ICU, it means that you're up for a challenge, and it means you're confident in your skills — because you're going to see the sickest people in the hospital, and some of your patients are going to die. You're going to have to have the personal skills with family, you're going to have the technical skills to try to keep their loved one alive.”

“He was great at it.”

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Pro-gun rights nonprofit 'deeply concerned' by shooting

The Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, a nonprofit and lobbying group that opposes gun restrictions, said it is "deeply concerned" by the fatal shooting by a federal  Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis.

"Every peaceable Minnesotan has the right to keep and bear arms — including while attending protests, acting as observers, or exercising their First Amendment rights," the group's chair, Bryan Strawser, said in a statement. "These rights do not disappear when someone is lawfully armed, and they must be respected and protected at all times."

Editorial | An ICE pause is the only path to peace
It’s not debatable after the latest fatal shooting.

By Editorial Board
The Minnesota Star Tribune

Minnesota is standing at a dangerous edge. After a third shooting involving federal immigration agents in less than three weeks, both the state and its largest city are trapped in a familiar and deeply corrosive moment. As of Saturday afternoon, key facts remain unsettled. That uncertainty is not incidental. It is destabilizing.

First, the obvious must be said. Residents and others who are staging protest in Minneapolis cannot allow anger, however justified, to tip into destruction. In the face of an ongoing federal presence widely experienced by residents as threatening and destabilizing, we all must respond with restraint and discipline. This city cannot afford to fracture.

We have lived through what happens when fear outruns facts. We must not fall into that trap again.

But our continued restraint will demand clarity. And clarity begins with facts — all of them — gathered openly, tested independently and shared fully with the public.

That means the shooting death of 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti on Saturday morning cannot be reviewed behind federal walls alone.

A joint investigation must be established immediately, with federal, state and local authorities granted equal access to evidence, witnesses, body camera footage and timelines. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and local law enforcement must be invited into a transparent partnership with federal investigators. Anything less will be read, fairly or not, as concealment.

Federal officials have argued after previous ICE-related shootings that internal review was sufficient. In a city still marked by unresolved trauma around police violence, that answer no longer holds. Transparency cannot be performative. It must be structural.

That transparency imperative leads directly to the second reality now confronting Minnesota: the growing call for ICE to leave the state. Gov. Tim Walz, Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey have all voiced versions of that demand.

What is not open to debate is this: The current ICE surge in Minnesota must be paused.

The stated mission of targeting the “worst of the worst” has collided with on-the-ground reality: fear rippling through neighborhoods, essential workers staying home, businesses disrupted and a city that increasingly feels under siege. Whatever limited enforcement gains may be occurring are being overwhelmed by the broader damage inflicted on civic life, public safety and trust in government.

An ICE pause would not represent abolition. It is governance. It is an acknowledgment that tactics producing sweeping disruption, mounting injury and now multiple civilian deaths are failing their own stated aims.

Get the facts out. All of them. Then halt current operations until clear standards, oversight mechanisms and limits are publicly defined and agreed upon. This is not about surrendering federal authority. It is about restoring legitimacy.

Minnesota is a proud state, and Minneapolis at the moment is showing remarkable restraint under immense strain. But that restraint is not infinite. This is the moment for unity — not silence. Members of Minnesota’s Republican congressional delegation are needed now. So are business leaders and institutional voices with access to federal power.

This surge will end eventually. The damage may not.

A pause is the only off-ramp left.

Gun rights advocate analyzes video footage

Rob Doar, senior vice president of the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus and a gun-rights advocate, has seen four citizen videos of Pretti being shot and gave the Minnesota Star Tribune a moment-by-moment account of what he saw.

“We saw  Mr. Pretti in the roadway, and then the … agents started moving toward him,” Doar began. “He started retreating at that point.”

An agent shoved a woman to the ground, “and while helping the woman off the ground, Mr. Pretti is pepper-sprayed and taken to the ground," he added.

At least a half-dozen agents closed in, and one agent appeared to be striking Mr. Pretti’s head or toward the upper part of his body.”

Doar said an agent in a gray jacket “moved in and placed his arm in the huddle , and it looks like he retrieved a firearm from Mr. Pretti’s waist.”

Based on the videos, Doar summed up, “If Mr. Pretti was disarmed -- absent any of any other evidence of any risk to an officer, I don’t see how deadly force would be justified.”

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem characterized the presence of the man who was shot by federal law enforcement in Minneapolis today as a “violent riot.”

“I don’t know any peaceful protester that shows up with a gun and ammunition, rather than a sign. This is a violent riot. We have someone showing up with weapons and are using them to assault law enforcement officers,” Noem said during a press conference in Washington, DC.

Noem did not directly respond to questions about whether the Minneapolis man Alex Pretti was disarmed prior to shots being fired. She also did not say at what point federal officers retrieved the gun.

purplefaithful wrote:

I see another person was shot and killed by an ICE agent in South Mpls this morning. More to come on that one.

There is no justification for DHS/ICE coming in here in the scale they have and how they have attempted to do their jobs. I'm not convinced Noem/Potus are happy with how this has gone down and I strongly believe most of USA view it with concern, at least those that aren't deep Maga in their beliefs.

Again, this is NOT about illegal immigrants or not, ridding the country of the worst of the worst, this is about HOW ICE is doing their job in MN.

We simply want them to leave now.

The whole macro picture in this country is a big olde swirl of the same shit imo. Like a turd going down the toilet the morning after a big Taco Bell dinner. These are the same issues /differences our country has been dealing with for a long time now.

ITs just amplified with social media and the overall temp in the country is hotter with a potus who leads with agitation and disruption (domestically and globally). I mean who would have ever thought an American President would call out a whole race of people, label them garbage and tell them to leave? It's just insanity. And it's shameful that nobody on that side of the aisle said one word. Not even the Republicans here in Minny.

Yup, I'm with you in hoping for peace in Minny soon and thoughts/prayers to the next city in the cross-hairs. It's just a matter of where/when. We wont have a dog in the next fight, but we in MN will do what we can to support em.

Respectfully Purple, this is 100% people disobeying the laws and law enforcement.  Normally, I have some compassion in a situation like this, but the guy came armed with 2 magazines and interrupted law enforcement. What in the hell does anybody think was going to happen?  If it isn’t this dumb ass, it’s just another one who one ups him that gets shot next.  When you let rioters win, you lose your society. These are people being whipped into a frenzy by lawmakers trying to hide their fraud and quid pro quo arrangements with minorities. Time for the insurrection act and to quadruple ICE. If this is unpopular politically, it’s only because the media and corrupt politicians win the day again.

seriously though,  ICE has been doing arrests in SD and many many other states with cooperation of the local LEOs and they are in and out before anyone even realizes something is up,  but in MN and I am sure some other blue locations,  there are protesters already lines up when they show up to do their jobs in residential neighborhoods.... who the hell doesnt find this odd?  I would think that ICE is still communicating their targets to local LEOS,  are these targets getting leaked ahead of time,   is there a massive communications taking place to keep the protesters 1 step ahead,  or do the locals already know where these people are living and the protesters are just quicker to those locations?

something is screwy.

JimmyinSD wrote:

seriously though,  ICE has been doing arrests in SD and many many other states with cooperation of the local LEOs and they are in and out before anyone even realizes something is up,  but in MN and I am sure some other blue locations,  there are protesters already lines up when they show up to do their jobs in residential neighborhoods.... who the hell doesnt find this odd?  I would think that ICE is still communicating their targets to local LEOS,  are these targets getting leaked ahead of time,   is there a massive communications taking place to keep the protesters 1 step ahead,  or do the locals already know where these people are living and the protesters are just quicker to those locations?

something is screwy.

 And new video from Nurse Pretti from about a week prior to his demise, shows him armed and arguing and screaming at another street ICE attempt to arrest an illegal.  Pretti seen spitting at ICE officer and kicking Their vehicle.

savannahskol wrote:

 And new video from Nurse Pretti from about a week prior to his demise, shows him armed and arguing and screaming at another street ICE attempt to arrest an illegal.  Pretti seen spitting at ICE officer and kicking Their vehicle.

Instead of blaming ice or Trump,  I put it squarely on every politician in the past that did nothing to secure our borders,   every elected official in MN that didnt call out the sanctuary bull shit and especially those that have told their LEOs to stand down and not help the feds enforce the laws of our nation, because they dont like Trump or the Republicans.  They are the one that caused the issue and escalated it to the point of radicalization and eventually violence and deaths.

Better audio here.

"AssauIt me, motherfcker!!!" - Alex Pretti on January 13th trying to get injured by federal officers pic.twitter.com/33PBDIiJxN

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 29, 2026

Sad