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   From: loopback127@home.net   
      
   "The Left Doesn’t Want You to Know This About Alex Pretti, the Man the   
   Border Patrol Shot"   
      
      
   "When Renee Good drove her car into an ICE agent earlier this month,   
   the left tried to gaslight us into believing she was just some innocent   
   bystander who was just at the wrong place, that she’d just dropped her   
   son off at school and wasn’t supposed to be there. That narrative fell   
   apart fast. Good, we soon learned, was a trained anti-ICE agitator who   
   was absolutely there to obstruct law enforcement. Now we're watching   
   the same playbook unfold with 37-year-old Alex Pretti, the armed   
   agitator shot dead by Border Patrol agents on Saturday in Minneapolis   
   while confronting agents.   
      
   The talking points are already circulating. Social media posts from the   
   left keep hammering on Pretti's job as an ICU nurse, as if that somehow   
   proves he was there with pure intentions. They are gaslighting you   
   because they want you to believe federal agents gunned down a selfless   
   healthcare worker for no reason.   
      
   That is not the case.   
      
   We already knew that Pretti was carrying a loaded handgun and two extra   
   loaded magazines when he showed up at an active ICE operation targeting   
   a violent criminal illegal immigrant. And like Good before him, Pretti   
   wasn't some random citizen. He was part of an organized network   
   dedicated to interfering with immigration enforcement.   
      
   And he brought a loaded gun.   
      
   Cam Higby from Newsmax spent days undercover inside the Signal   
   messaging groups these activists use to coordinate their efforts. What   
   he found was stunning in its sophistication. These aren't just angry   
   citizens showing up to protest. This is a well-oiled machine running 24   
   hours a day, seven days a week.   
      
      
   The groups use emojis next to members' names to denote specific roles.   
   You've got mobile patrols driving around searching for federal   
   vehicles. Foot patrols are working the streets. Dispatchers are running   
   constant calls directing people where ICE has been spotted and how best   
   to interfere with their operations. License plate checkers maintain   
   databases of known federal vehicles. Even medics are standing by.   
   They're running shift changes, clocking in and out, just like any   
   organized operation.   
      
   All to stop the enforcement of federal immigration laws.   
      
   Each area of Minneapolis has its own group chat, with the city carved   
   up into patrol zones that tell activists exactly where to operate. The   
   chats max out at 1,000 members by midday and get deleted and recreated   
   daily to avoid detection.   
      
      
   These people track federal agents all night long. Higby captured   
   screenshots at 2 a.m. showing dispatchers calling for observers at   
   locations with potential targets.   
      
   They even use a military-style system called SALUTE.   
      
   Alex Pretti was a member of the Kingfield Signal ICE watch group.   
   Jeanne Massey, who coordinates rapid response for these networks,   
   confirmed Pretti's involvement. She describes her role as patrolling   
   neighborhoods when ICE is spotted, alerting residents, and witnessing   
   what she calls the "horror" of enforcement operations. After Pretti was   
   shot, Massey rushed to the scene along with many other Minneapolis   
   residents. She claims she watched ICE officers charge into the crowd   
   and deploy tear gas against people who had gathered there.   
      
   Speaking on behalf of neighbors, Massey says the community is   
   "horrified" and "furious" about Pretti's killing. "Let me be clear: we   
   are horrified, we are furious, and we are not going to pretend this is   
   anything but what it is - another senseless act of violence carried out   
   by federal agents in our city," she said.   
      
   What Massey conveniently leaves out is what Pretti was doing there in   
   the first place. He showed up at an active federal law enforcement   
   operation carrying a loaded weapon and extra ammunition. Video footage   
   shows Border Patrol agents attempting to disarm him before the fatal   
   shooting.   
      
   Yes, he worked as an ICU nurse, but he also chose to involve himself in   
   organized resistance against immigration enforcement, armed and ready   
   for confrontation.   
      
   The left wants you to see this as federal overreach. The reality is   
   that these networks have created a dangerous environment in which   
   activists deliberately interfere with law enforcement operations. They   
   track agents around the clock, follow them, confront them, and   
   apparently sometimes show up armed. Then they act shocked when agents   
   act in self-defense and things turn deadly.   
      
   The gaslighting won't work this time any more than it did with Renee   
   Good"   
      
      
   --    
   Don Miller   
   Retired   
   Would you like to supersize that?   
      
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