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This is Alex Pretti, a VA ICU nurse, honoring a veteran he cared for at a VA hospital.
The son of the deceased veteran just posted this video on Facebook with the following message:
“RIP Alex Pretti,
he was my Dads ICU nurse, he read my dad’s final salute at the VA after he passed away. Never wanted to share this video but his speech is very on point. Also my Fathers final words to me was continue to fight the good fight. He would be honored in Alex’ sacrifice, and ashamed of this current administration. In my Dads words I encourage you all to continue to ‘fight the good fight’”
🚨 CONFIRMED: The man shot by federal agents in Minneapolis has died, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara tells the Star Tribune.
Sources say ICE tried to order local police off the scene.
O’Hara refused and told officers to preserve it.
The BCA is now en route.
DHS claims he had a gun. Video circulating suggests he never pulled one.
Even if he did, guns are legal. Killing people isn’t.
🚨Last night, in Minneapolis, federal agents fired green chemical gas into a residential neighborhood after community members showed up to document what was happening on their own block.
Let’s be very clear about what that means…
This wasn’t a federal courthouse.
This wasn’t federal property.
This was people standing in the streets where they live… streets lined with houses, apartments, kids, babies, and pregnant people.
That green gas didn’t just hit people outside. It spread through the neighborhood, into yards and homes.
Agents also threw flash bangs at a family trying to leave because of the smoke, even though they had small children, including a 6-month-old who was later taken to the hospital by ambulance.
And, the green gas matters. This isn’t “normal” tear gas.
That same green smoke has been documented before… in Portland… where it was used by federal agents to “protect” federal buildings.
Independent testing found it contained hexachloroethane, which produces zinc chloride smoke when deployed. The U.S. military stopped using it decades ago because of how toxic it is.
Exposure to this gas is linked to burning skin and eyes, coughing, vomiting, chest pain, and serious respiratory injury, with the risk of delayed and long-term lung damage. This is especially dangerous for infants, children, pregnant people, and anyone with asthma or other respiratory conditions.
Now, federal agents are using it in neighborhoods.
And on top of that… ICE and other federal agents are not supposed to be doing crowd control in residential areas at all.
Their authority is limited to specific federal functions. Crowd control in city streets is not one of them. They do not have blanket jurisdiction to gas neighborhoods because people are in their own neighborhood streets.
So what we’re watching is federal agents:
• acting outside their role
• performing crowd control where they have no jurisdiction
• firing toxic green gas into civilian neighborhoods
• and exposing families inside their own homes to chemicals that cause real physical harm.
This isn’t public safety.
This isn’t lawful enforcement.
This is the federal government treating American neighborhoods like hostile territory… and using chemical weapons to do it.
That should alarm everyone, because there is nothing stopping this from happening in your neighborhood next.
From Brian Shapiro at Pushing the Limits...
BREAKING: Just read this list of ALL the heinous things ICE has done in the past few days:
- Murdered Renee Good
- Shot a US citizen in the eye, shoved his face in glass and then laughed at him; he would permanently lose sight in his eye
- Teargassed a high school at dismissal time while arresting staff members
- Illegally kneeled on the neck of a legal observer while arresting him for no reason
- Threw a special education school teacher in to the gulag after THEY smashed into her car
- Shattered the windows of a disabled woman's car and arrested her for trying to get to her doctor’s office
- Fired explosive flashbang grenades at protestors
- Brutalized a homeless citizen so badly he needed to be hospitalized because he couldn’t breathe
- Peppered sprayed a protestor in the face at point-blank range
- Dragged a US citizen teenager out of his job at Target, beat him, then dropped him off several miles away after they realized he was legal
- Arrested a US citizen for refusing to show them his papers in violation of his 4th Amendment rights
- Pointed a gun in a priest’s face and then threw him in the back of their van for no reason
- Targeted two protestors, smashed their car doors, and illegally arrested them
- Trampled the memorial to Renee Good
- Broke into the woman’s bathroom to arrest legal workers
- Illegally conducted house raids in Minneapolis with fake warrants
Handcuffing a minor and arresting her parents for speaking Spanish
Share this list around far and wide. Make your neighbors read it.
Does this sound like the behavior of a law enforcement agency?
These lawless goons are OUT OF CONTROL, and Congress needs to take action NOW to cut off their funding and put an end to the endless acts of brutality and violations of the constitutional rights of American citizens.
ANONYMOUS LETTER FROM A MINNESOTA EDUCATOR ON THE GROUND
I am a lifelong resident of Minneapolis and an educator who teaches at both a high school and a college here in the city. I have friends, family, colleagues, and students across the political spectrum. I am writing as an American citizen who loves this country and is deeply frightened by what I am witnessing in my city.
Before becoming an educator, I worked with Homeland Security in the early 2000s as a theft and fraud investigator for a major insurance company. I had direct exposure to federal law enforcement at that time. What is happening now does not resemble the agencies or officers I knew then. The ICE agents operating here appear poorly trained, are acting with little oversight, and are being encouraged to treat residents as enemies. They are operating with total impunity. That should concern everyone.
There is widespread disinformation about what is happening in Minnesota. I am asking people, regardless of politics, to stop relying on national pundits and political talking points and instead look to local reporting and firsthand accounts from people who live here. What is happening is real, ongoing, and deeply disturbing.
I am not a protester. I have not attended demonstrations. I am in classrooms and on campuses every day. What follows is what I have personally witnessed, along with what has been consistently reported to me by colleagues, students, parents, and neighbors with a wide range of political beliefs.
Here is what I have seen and experienced:
- Female friends who are U.S. citizens aggressively restrained, choked, forced into vehicles, and detained.
- Native American individuals detained, including citizens and members of sovereign tribal nations.
- ICE agents staking out high school and college campuses, then denying their presence to administrators and local law enforcement.
- I have been followed for miles after leaving a school parking lot by an ICE agent who only turned away after prolonged tailing.
- Emergency sirens at levels I have never experienced living here, including during 9/11, the 2008 Republican National Convention, and the George Floyd uprising.
- ICE agents running residential license plates, pulling personal data, and approaching people already knowing their names and addresses.
- Agents positioned outside churches, schools, and grocery stores, blocking traffic, yelling at residents, and intimidating EVERYONE, including people who are not protesting.
- White residents being offered money or “protection” in exchange for informing on neighbors labeled as non-citizens or “leftist protesters.”
- Door-to-door activity in Minneapolis and St. Paul, with local news now running nightly segments on what to do if ICE comes to your door.
- School buses rerouted to pick up students at individual homes because children are too afraid to walk.
- Parents emailing me asking what will happen to their children if they are detained.
- School administrators stated that local police will not intervene if ICE violates rights on private school property without a warrant.
- Reports from detainees of no bathroom privacy, including officers watching women use the restroom.
- Arrests occurring on highways, with abandoned vehicles left behind, causing multiple accidents.
- There are thousands of ICE agents operating here. It feels like an occupation.
- Residents have also documented aerial surveillance during enforcement activity, including drones over neighborhoods and public spaces. Community-recorded video shows drones hovering while individuals on the ground are followed or detained. Regardless of stated purpose, the effect is widespread fear, self-censorship, and the feeling of being monitored simply for existing in public.
What makes this even more frightening is the complete failure of political leadership.
Republican lawmakers from rural Minnesota openly cheer this enforcement without concern for the harm it is causing to Minnesota families, children, and communities. Democratic leaders speak about stopping it in press conferences but are not on the ground and are not backing their words with action. They return to their homes each night while families here live in fear.
Politicians and Government officials are playing with people’s lives.
I have never been this scared living in Minnesota. Not during past protests. Not during moments of national crisis. The fear now is constant and destabilizing because it is happening in everyday places: churches, schools, grocery stores, neighborhoods, and homes.
I do not care what your politics are. This is wrong and should not be happening in America.
This is not about border security or state fraud. This is about retribution for being a “blue state,” intimidation, surveillance, and the erosion of basic civil rights in a major American city, carried out openly and without accountability. We are being made an example.
We need help. If the government, law enforcement, and politicians will not protect people, then it is up to us to protect each other.
Ways to Help:
Legal Support
Immigrant Defense Network (COPAL) https://t.co/oPfr5rlmQL
Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota https://t.co/bIJWwfdP2w
National Lawyers Guild
https://t.co/EiJXYyvnbf
MIRAC
https://t.co/ECoygXNcOA
ICE Watch & Community Defense
Defend 612 https://t.co/RQ0GcgdSAc
Minnesota 50501
https://t.co/kczWSwHxOJ
Food & Mutual Aid
HelpMe Connect https://t.co/qFkQpnoDEc
Twin Cities Mutual Aid Project https://t.co/Ov6VUaRdOp
La Viña Church
https://t.co/BiIO1W4aS1
People Helping People https://t.co/hhGS3giHVn
DHH Church Food Support https://t.co/XvRVjLVIzq
Please rely on local Minnesota news outlets, not national commentary, for accurate reporting. Please share this widely.
People are being harmed. Minnesota residents regardless of their politics are terrified and angry. Misinformation only allows this to continue.
— Sincerely,
An Anonymous Minnesota Educator
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