Federal ICE Agents Shoot and Kill Another Person in Minneapolis
10:52 pm:
The Meidas post was right. Th New York Times is just crapping all over themselves on this:
Man Killed by Federal Agents Was Holding a Phone, Not a Gun
Videos analyzed by The New York Times appear to contradict federal accounts of the shooting.
They are so utterly worthless.
9:09 pm:
Ed Krassenstein
@EdKrassen
BREAKING:
@AOC
just completely went off on Trump after ICE murdered Alex Pretti.
"Donald Trump [is] accusing a Veteran Affairs ICU nurse (Alex Pretti) as being a terrorist against the United States. A man who was treating services members to our country, who was dedicating his life to serving Americans. Who in his final act on this earth was helping a woman pushed to the ground. And they are calling him a Domestic Terrorist, in order to defend their gross abuse of power, their absolute breaching of the law and in order to precipitate greater conflict."
I have never seen her this angry. Note, she reposted it! Watch: AOC
8:58 pm:
SHAME ON CNN, CBS, AND ALL OF THEM!!
Ben Meiselas and MeidasTouch Network
Jan 25
By Ben Meiselas
My heart goes out to the family of Alex Pretti and to the entire Minnesota community who are under attack by Trump’s ICE and Border Patrol terrorist thugs. Pretti was murdered in cold blood by Border Patrol gestapo. He didn’t incite anything or threaten anyone. He was helping female protesters who were getting brutalized by the Border Patrol sickos when he was pepper sprayed and gang-tackled to the ground. He was bludgeoned on the ground before being shot repeatedly and killed.
This isn’t my opinion. This is what happened. This isn’t my perspective. These are the facts.
It does not surprise me that the Trump regime is calling Alex a domestic terrorist who had an agenda to massacre Border Patrol and ICE. This regime is made up of despicable and vile humans who lie about everything. They are terrorists and horrible humans.
What makes me livid, and what should also come as no surprise, however, is the coverage from CNN and CBS and Politico and of course Fox and frankly all corporate news. They have all parroted regime talking points that Alex Pretti was resisting and that somehow having a concealed handgun with a lawful permit made it justifiable to kill him. Alex did not brandish his weapon. He was holding a cell phone. Alex was not resisting; he was attacked and bludgeoned and murdered.
Of course we all know that CBS and Fox are regime media. But frankly, all other news media is as well, perhaps to slightly lesser degrees, but they are regime media nonetheless. They all deserve to be out of business for trying to “both-sides” and sane-wash what just took place.
It is obvious that independent news is more important than ever right now. We have had on-the-ground reporting in Minnesota thanks to our partnership with Status Coup, and we’ve been providing coverage all day on our network about what actually took place. Shame on all these corporate news networks for their pathetic coverage.
We will keep building the MeidasTouch Network to be bigger, more resilient, and to expand our coverage thanks to your subscriptions that have led to our growth. We were built to meet this moment, and we will not rest until the truth is out and we trample all these corporate news sellouts.
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8:52 pm:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
Americans are being killed in the street by their government. Our Constitution is being shredded and our rights are dissolving. Resist. (emphasis added)
Senate Dems should block ICE funding this week. Activate the National Guard.
We can and must stop this.
12:26 PM · Jan 24, 2026
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Everything she says to do, I do.
7:58 pm:
Videos analyzed by The New York Times appear to contradict the accounts of federal officials
Videos Appear to Contradict Federal Account of Killing
An I.C.U. nurse shot by federal agents was an American citizen with no criminal record, the city police chief said. A New York Times video analysis shows he was holding a phone, not a gun.
5:35 pm: NYT Reverts to Customary Practice
They are so twee.
4:16 pm:
Trump Blocks State Investigators
Jan. 24, 2026, 4:08 p.m. ET7 minutes ago
Ernesto Londoño
Drew Evans, the superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, said the Department of Homeland Security blocked state agents from the scene of Saturday’s shooting. Evans said his agency took the rare step of obtaining a search warrant to access the — the shooting happened on a street — but that has not yet yielded the access to evidence his investigators need. The state agency investigates shootings by law enforcement officials in the state.
Jan. 24, 2026, 4:15 p.m. ET2m ago
Ernesto Londoño
Evans said Minnesotans deserve an independent, thorough and transparent investigation into the shooting. But his agency, which has often cooperated with federal agencies in the past, is struggling to get access to witnesses and evidence. “We’re in uncharted territory here,” Evans said.
Jan. 24, 2026, 4:17 p.m. ET1 minute ago
Ernesto Londoño
Superintendent Evans said federal officials have refused to disclose the identities of federal agents involved in Saturday’s shooting, as well as the names of federal agents who have shot people in recent days in the course of the continuing immigration crackdown.
NYT
3:41 pm: The victim, a nurse, was an American citizen with no criminal record, the city police chief said. Videos of the encounter contradict the federal government’s description of the shooting, a New York Times analysis found. NYT
Jan. 24, 2026, 2:35 p.m. ET40 minutes ago
Mitch Smith Midwest reporter
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said that the Minneapolis police had asked them to investigate the shooting, but that state agents who attempted to access the site were “blocked” by Homeland Security officials.
Prosecutor’s concerns: Mary Moriarty, the elected prosecutor in Hennepin County, which includes Minneapolis, said that the “scene must be secured by local law enforcement for preservation of evidence.” Minnesota officials have been blocked by federal agencies from accessing evidence and pursuing an investigations of Ms. Good’s death.
3:54 pm:
Trump moved swiftly on Saturday to shift the blame for another shooting death in Minneapolis away from the federal agents involved in the incident, claiming instead that it was the result of inflammatory rhetoric by local officials and the victim himself....
The defiant and angry response by the president and members of his administration further inflamed tensions in [Minneapolis]...Increasingly, U.S. citizens have taken to the streets to protest what many have described as a military-style occupation of an American city...
Are we going to be shopkeepers keeping the sign up? Or are we going to resist?
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3:44 pm. In other public occurrences, Trump threatened today to impose 100% tariffs on any and all exports from Canada as response to Canada's trade deal with the Peoples Republic of China. Wrote, said Trump:
'If Governor Carney thinks he is going to make Canada a 'Drop Off Port' for China to send goods and products into the United States, he is sorely mistaken.'
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Jan. 24, 2026, 2:40 p.m. ET
22 minutes ago
Devon Lum (https://www.nytimes.com/by/devon-lum)
Videos on social media that were verified by The New York Times contradict (1) the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the fatal shooting of a man by federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday morning.
The Department of Homeland Security said the episode began after a man approached Border Patrol agents with a handgun and they tried to disarm him. But footage from the scene shows the man was holding a phone in his hand, not a gun, when federal agents took him to the ground and shot him.
(1) NYT is extremely careful in what they report, to a fault imo. It would be typical of NYT to insert "appear to" before "contradict". Here, they do not: "videos...contradict".
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After the man was taken to the ground, at least 10 shots appear to have been fired at him by the agents within five seconds, according to a Times analysis (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/us/video-shows-moments-in-which-agents-killed-a-man-in-minneapolis.html) of verified videos posted to social media. Chief O’Hara said investigators believe that at least two agents opened fired.
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Jan. 24, 2026, 2:35 p.m. ET40 minutes ago
Mitch Smith Midwest reporter
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said that the Minneapolis police had asked them to investigate the shooting, but that state agents who attempted to access the site were “blocked” by Homeland Security officials.
Prosecutor’s concerns: Mary Moriarty, the elected prosecutor in Hennepin County, which includes Minneapolis, said that the “scene must be secured by local law enforcement for preservation of evidence.” Minnesota officials have been blocked by federal agencies from accessing evidence and pursuing an investigations of Ms. Good’s death.