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By Jeralyn, Section Blog Related
Posted on Sun Jan 25, 2026 at 08:23:23 PM EST
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A Minnesota judge has issued a temporary restraining order against the Department of Homeland Security prohibiting it from destroying evidence pertaining to the killing of Alex Pretti.

U.S. District Court Judge Eric Tostrud granted a temporary restraining order against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Saturday, barring the department from altering or destroying evidence connected to Pretti's killing.

How about a restraining order banning ICE from conducting enforcement operations in Minnesota?

The Wall St. Journal (free link here) says the videos don't support the claims of law enforcement. I'm not surprised, are you?

This is an open thread, all topics welcome.

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    Under the stewardship of Kristie Noem, ... (none / 0) (#1)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Sun Jan 25, 2026 at 09:36:24 PM EST
    Here is the initial DHS statement on Alex Pretti's killing:

    Dept. of Homeland Security
    11:31am CST
    Minneapolis, MN

    At 9:05 AM CT, as DHS law enforcement officers were conducting a targeted operation in Minneapolis against an illegal alien wanted for violent assault, an individual approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun, seen here.

    The officers attempted to disarm the suspect but the armed suspect violently resisted. More details on the armed struggle are forthcoming.

    Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, an agent fired defensive shots. Medics on scene immediately delivered medical aid to the subject but was pronounced dead at the scene.

    The suspect also had 2 magazines and no ID--this looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.

    About 200 rioters arrived at the scene and began to obstruct and assault law enforcement on the scene, crowd control measures were deployed for the safety of the public and law enforcement.

    This situation is evolving, and more information is forthcoming.

    ... aka Gauleiter Barbie, DHS has become a wholly unreliable and consistently disingenuous narrator of events such as Saturday morning's tragedy. The word choice "approached with a 9mm" is evidence of a clear intent to mislead the reader into thinking the victim, Alex Pretti, was brandishing a firearm as he approached U.S. Border Patrol agents.

    In fact, the gun was holstered. Mr. Pretti had a valid license to carry, and per the videos released to the public, he was filming federal activities with his cell phone. Federal agents approached Pretti and another woman and instigated the confrontation. One violently pushed the woman to the ground and then pepper-sprayed Pretti, who was swarmed by agents and taken to the ground.

    At one point, one of the agents unholstered Pretti's 9mm and removed it, but as he turned and spun away from the pile-on, the gun appears to have gone off. The other agents fired nine times into the victim, likely killing him instantly.

    At the minimum, what we witness on these videos is, at a minimum, felony assault and manslaughter. The was no legal justification for arresting and detaining the victim and yet, he was pepper-sprayed and gang-tackled in egregious violation of his rights under both the First and Second Amendments, and then he was killed after he had been disarmed.

    Thank heavens for cell phone videos.

    Looked like another murder to me. (5.00 / 3) (#2)
    by desertswine on Sun Jan 25, 2026 at 10:16:52 PM EST
    And nothing like Nazi Barbie described.

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    I won[t disagree with you. (none / 0) (#9)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Mon Jan 26, 2026 at 02:13:24 PM EST
    There are several videos of Saturday morning's fatal encounter, but no matter the angle you see it, it's all pretty damning with regard to the horrific conduct of DHS personnel.

    Even a number of Fox News folks have sounded repulsed by what they saw, even as they try to be supportive. A few of them have been pushing back on the official line from DHS and the Trump regime that Alex Pretti was the instigator and aggressor, and a domestic terrorist bent on inflicting mayhem.

    Further, the Second Amendment people are in an uproar over the regime's claim - via that sage of the bar, Kash Patel - that carrying a weapon at a public protest is illegal. While I might contend that packing heat at a public event such as a political demonstration is probably ill-advised, it most certainly is not illegal.

    Aloha.

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    Never having (5.00 / 1) (#3)
    by jmacWA on Mon Jan 26, 2026 at 04:50:22 AM EST
    been sprayed with pepper spray, no less directly in the face, I am not sure... but I bet MOST would resist violently.

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    And. (none / 0) (#4)
    by KeysDan on Mon Jan 26, 2026 at 08:56:07 AM EST
    they refer to the protester/victim as the "suspect".

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    A photo (none / 0) (#5)
    by KeysDan on Mon Jan 26, 2026 at 12:02:13 PM EST
    for Democrats campaign ad. Courtesy of Vance.

    The ground under this (none / 0) (#6)
    by CaptHowdy on Mon Jan 26, 2026 at 12:11:12 PM EST
    seems to be shifting.  
    Even FOX is rolling their eyes.  

    This really could be a pivotal moment.

     

    I am (none / 0) (#7)
    by Ga6thDem on Mon Jan 26, 2026 at 12:53:26 PM EST
    afraid to say it but it could be the beginning of the end. Maybe murdering 2 protestors in MN is the bottom we have finally reached.

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    According to Gov. Tim Walz's office, ... (none / 0) (#8)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Mon Jan 26, 2026 at 01:58:50 PM EST
    ... Trump has agreed to reduce ICE and DHS presence in Minnesota and allow state and local law enforcement to fully investigate this past weekend's shooting.

    I don't think that Walz or AG Keith Ellison necessarily needed Trump's permission for the latter, but anyway, there we are. Given that Minnesota's immigrant population is only 130,000, it's pretty clear that this surge in the Twin Cities was never really about immigration per se.

    Aloha.

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