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   From: j_d@invalid.org   
      
   Close-up videos of the fatal Minneapolis shooting showed protester Alex   
   Jeffrey Pretti was armed with a gun — with the agent who fired the more   
   than a dozen shots clearly reacting to something that alarmed him amid the   
   chaos.   
      
   It’s unclear if Pretti had drawn the weapon and was immediately disarmed,   
   if an officer had pulled it from his clothing or if he was in the process   
   of pulling it out when a separate federal officer was seen taking it from   
   the 37-year-old as he was pinned to the ground.   
      
   Videos of the incident show officers shouting “he’s got a gun,” as the   
   unidentified agent reached into Pretti’s waistband to retrieve the weapon.   
      
   At one point an officer in gray coat is seen emerging from the melee with   
   the gun, which officials said was a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun. According   
   to close up video of that moment, as the officer holds the gun, the gun’s   
   slide moves, meaning it may have fired, causing a loud noise of a gunshot   
   shortly before other officer fired at Pretti.   
      
   In various videos,the agent who fired the fatal shots could be seen   
   shooting the armed protester at close range, then pumping at least 9 more   
   rounds into his body as Pretti lay motionless on the ground.   
      
   Moments before the fatal incident, one video showed Pretti gripping his   
   phone while helping a woman who was pushed to the ground by an immigration   
   agent, who relentlessly sprayed the pair with tear gas.   
      
   A hoard of federal officers pulled him away from the woman and brought him   
   to the ground, where Pretti struggled on his hands and knees for several   
   seconds before an agent wearing a gray jacket appeared to seize his gun —   
   and the fatal shots rang out moments later.   
      
   The Department of Homeland Security said Pretti had approached US Border   
   Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun as they were conducting   
   a “targeted” arrest.   
      
   “The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect   
   reacted violently,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said at a press conference   
   Saturday night.   
      
   “Fearing for his life and for the lives of his fellow officers around him,   
   an agent fired defensive shots. Medics were on the scene immediately and   
   attempted to deliver medical aid to the subject, but he was pronounced   
   dead at the scene.”   
      
   Conversation   
      
   Ewell B. Weiser   
   24 January, 2026   
      
   The only given here is that we’re careening towards a complete bottoming   
   out, social fabric-wise,   
      
   Both sides, completely distrust and despise each other with vitriol that I   
   never could have imagined before 2008 started this decay.   
      
   Who is benefitting from this? It is being engineered.   
      
   Thomas Gallagher   
   24 January, 2026   
      
   Who in their right mind would think it advisable to unlawfully act to   
   interfere with law enforcement personnel while they are making an active   
   arrest, while also wearing a gun and ammo, and then erratically and   
   forcefully resist law enforcement attempts to disarm and stop the   
   perpetrator from committing their criminal actions?   
      
   Anton Langston   
   2 days ago   
      
   If the deceased was home minding his own business he would be alive today.   
   Did he violently protest during Obama when CNN rode along with ICE agents?   
      
   https://nypost.com/2026/01/24/us-news/moment-federal-officer-reached-for-   
   gun-revealed-in-close-up-analysis-of-minneapolis-armed-anti-ice-protester-   
   shooting/   
      
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