Another ICE Murder in Minnesota

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

It was bitter cold in Minneapolis yesterday morning when Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old  RN, bundled up in his winter coat and left home to go out on the streets and do what he could to protect his friends and neighbors from the masked and armed ICE agents who have invaded his city.   Not much later he was standing along a public street when he observed ICE agents push a woman to the ground.  The ICU nurse, a trained and skilled medical provider and humanitarian, was helping the victim to get up when he was swamped by several ICE agents who pushed him to the ground.

Alex, who was a nurse at a local VA hospital, had a cell phone in his right hand when ICE attacked him.  His left hand was empty and he had it raised in the air.  He also had a pistol on his person, a weapon that was registered and which he was licensed to carry - but the weapon was not out.  Video footage shows one of the masked ICE agents pulling the gun from Pretti's waistband and walking away before at least one of the agents fired multiple shots into him.  

One report from the scene indicates that at least ten shots were fired

The ICU nurse was unarmed at the time he was killed.  He had been pepper-sprayed and physically overwhelmed, yet was still valiantly trying to protect a stranger who had been assaulted by ICE.

Minnesota and the world lost a good human being yesterday, a highly trained medical provider whose value to his community was immense and whose passing will negatively impact local health care for years to come.  He was senselessly killed by a masked thug whose qulaifications for a "law enforcement" position are unknown to the general public and whose value to the community and posterity are, at best, highly questionable.  Ironically, both Alex Jeffrey Pretti and the man who murdered him were employees of the same government.

Today the United States of America has another dead hero, a man who gave his all to protect and defend someone he didn't even know.   Thank you, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, for your selfless dedication to humanity. You will be remembered with honor and respect long after this government and its ICE horrors are held to account.   Salute, sir!