Another murder in Minneapolis

Trump’s domestic army continues its rampage. We must fight back.

Alex Pretti

Friends,

Trump’s goons have murdered another American in Minneapolis.

This is the third shooting involving federal agents in the city this month, including the murder of Renee Good, 37, on January 7.

This morning, they murdered a 37-year-old man, an American citizen named Alex Pretti. Pretti was a registered nurse who lived in an apartment in Minneapolis a short drive away from where he was murdered. He had no criminal record. He had a firearms permit, required by state law in Minnesota to carry a handgun.

At least 10 shots appear to have been fired within five seconds. The video appears to show a group of masked agents mobbing someone, pushing him to the ground, then shooting him multiple times, even as he lies motionless.

The Department of Homeland Security says Pretti threatened agents with a gun, but footage shows the man was holding a phone in his hand, not a gun, when federal agents took him to the ground and shot him.

The people of Minneapolis, many of whom braved subzero weather yesterday to protest Trump’s army of occupation, are not deterred.

Dozens of protesters at the site of today’s murder blew whistles and demanded that police arrest the federal agents. As rapid-response networks immediately sent text messages about the killing to various neighborhood and immigrant network Signal chats, other protesters made their way to the scene.

Trump’s goons used tear gas and flash bangs against the crowd. As protesters began running away, ICE agents pursued them.

What should be done?

At the least, Jacob Frey, the mayor of Minneapolis, and Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, should immediately call out the city and state police to protect those protesting ICE. The Minneapolis district attorney and the Minnesota attorney general should convene grand juries to investigate ICE lawbreakers.

In the DHS spending bill to be voted on this coming week, Congress must disarm ICE, prohibit it from using racial or ethnic profiling, explicitly remove agents’ immunity from criminal prosecution and civil lawsuits, and slash its funding.

Finally, we must end the Trump regime.

Almost everyone in America is now aware of the brutality of Trump’s goons. It’s becoming harder for Americans to tell themselves that Trump is going after only “hard-core criminals.” Or even “illegal immigrants.” Or even Latinos. Or Black people. Or communists or “radical left extremists.”

He’s coming after all of us.

He’s coming after all of us who oppose his tyranny and brutality. All of us who defy his dictatorship. All of us who challenge his out-of-control, murderous goons.

All across America, we must rise up against this oppression — as peacefully but as definitively as we possibly can.