ICE Shooting in Minneapolis, Part II

 

     There doesn't appear to be any justification for the ICE cops to push the woman down (legally considered assault), then when Alex Pretti comes to her aid, the cops start attacking him. He is almost immediately pepper-sprayed and then wrestled down to the ground by what I count as seven ICE-holes. It's also impossible to discern what purpose these under-trained federal cops are even doing in the city besides tear-gassing peaceful protesters.

     My question is how is a suspect suppose to calmly follow police instructions when he's just been pepper-sprayed in the face. I'd love to see a cop show me he can raise his hands up after this, or calmly lay on the ground, not that the cops had any reason to detain him. 

     Once again, the president immediately began a campaign of misinformation and lies, as did the DHS  secretary Kristi Noem:

In the aftermath of the killing, which was recorded by multiple witnesses, the Department of Homeland Security released an image of a handgun, which Donald Trump referred to as “the gunman’s gun” in a social media post. Kristi Noem, the DHS secretary, said at a briefing that Pretti had “approached US border patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun”, though she later declined to say whether or not Pretti pulled the gun out.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/24/minneapolis-shooting-ice

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/us/trump-administration-minneapolis-shooting-response.html