Another innocent person executed by ICE
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command" - George Orwell
On Saturday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, who was trying to help a woman up after agents shoved her to the ground. U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Krisi Noem claimed that Alex went to “inflict maximum damage on individuals and to kill law enforcement,” but the video evidence, from various angles, completely contradicts this lie.
Alex was a 37-year-old ICU nurse at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs hospital. He was a licensed gun owner, according to his family and the Minneapolis Police. The video shows that Alex had his phone in his hand, and before the agents shot him over and over again, one of them appeared to take a gun out of Alex’s waistband.
The administration’s spin is not landing, for obvious reasons. The videos are not the ones lying. This was an unjustified killing of an innocent American citizen — the second person ICE agents murdered in Minneapolis just this month. Since Trump was sworn in for his second term, ICE has shot and killed five people. Another eight people have been injured. In 2025, thirty-two people died while in ICE custody.
But they are going after the worst of the worst, right?
Since October 1, 2025, 73 percent of people taken into custody by ICE had no criminal conviction. “Only 8 percent had a violent or property criminal conviction.”
The numbers do not lie. We have violent, poorly trained, masked, and dangerously armed individuals running around our country and killing our people. And the current administration is trying to tell us differently.
As George Orwell wrote, “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
Keep reading for a quick refresher on the First and Second Amendments, along with the law on police use of force.
