January 24th, 2026
The Trump regime will call Alex a “domestic terrorist”. We know he was a healer of the sick. A protector of democracy. What happened in Minneapolis on Saturday wasn’t just tragic—it was a calculated act of state violence against a citizen whose only crime was caring too much.
Alex Pretti was a 37-year-old registered nurse who spent his days caring for America’s veterans in the intensive care unit at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System. He wasn’t some radical agitator. He was a healer—the kind of person who, even while working on a research project studying devastating bacterial infections, constantly asked his colleagues what more he could do to help. His boss called him “outstanding.” His father said he “cared about people deeply.” His spirit was described as “infectious” in the best possible way.
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On Saturday, federal agents shot and killed him in the street.
Let that sink in. A man who dedicated his professional life to caring for those who served our country—who earned his nursing license and worked in one of the most demanding environments in healthcare—was gunned down by his own government for the crime of documenting their actions and trying to protect a legal observer.
Videos show the entire horrifying sequence. Pretti is directing traffic, filming agents with his phone, one hand holding the camera, the other empty. He steps in when federal officers shove a legal observer to the ground—because that’s who Alex Pretti was, someone who helped people. For this act of basic human decency, an officer repeatedly sprays him with chemical agents before tackling him along with several other agents.
Then, surrounded by at least five agents on the ground, unable to move, Alex Pretti is shot at close range. A volley of gunfire follows. His body goes still.
This is the second fatal shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis this month alone. We’re not talking about a war zone in a foreign country. We’re talking about an American city, where a nurse with no criminal record beyond traffic tickets—a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry—can be executed in the street for exercising his First Amendment rights.
The Minnesota Organization of Registered Nurses released a statement that cuts to the bone: “When one nurse is lost, all of us feel it.” But this loss should reverberate far beyond the nursing community. Because what happened to Alex Pretti is part of a calculated strategy to intimidate, silence, and terrorize anyone who dares to stand up to federal overreach.
His father told the Associated Press that Alex was “very upset with what was happening in Minneapolis and throughout the United States with ICE.” He and his wife had warned their son just two weeks ago to be careful at protests, to “not engage, to not do anything stupid.” Alex assured them he understood. And he did everything right. He filmed. He documented. He tried to help someone being assaulted by federal officers.
And for that, he was killed.
This is what authoritarianism looks like when it comes to America. It doesn’t announce itself with tanks in the streets—not at first. It starts with federal agents operating with impunity, shooting nurses who work with veterans, intimidating legal observers, and creating a climate of fear designed to keep good people at home, silent and compliant.
Alex Pretti loved mountain biking. He and his colleague always talked about hitting the trails together—a plan they’ll never get to fulfill. He found humor in life. He freed up space for others. He asked what more he could do to help.
America needs more Alex Prettis, not fewer. We need more people willing to stand up, document injustice, and defend those being brutalized by unchecked power. We need nurses who care, researchers who contribute, citizens who engage.
Instead, federal agents just killed one in broad daylight.
The question now is simple: What are the rest of us going to do about it?
