Crime Armed protestor killed in Minneapolis

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Shots fired after federal police in Minneapolis struggle to subdue man brandishing gun amid protests, video shows​

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Geoff Earle and

Elisha Fieldstadt
Published Jan. 24, 2026, 11:29 a.m. ET
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Shots rang out in Minneapolis early Saturday after federal police tried to subdue a man who was waving around a gun, according to law enforcement sources and video posted to social media.

A 39-second clip showed about half a dozen cops struggling with someone on the sidewalk in front of a donut shop at 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue, when the gunfire erupted.

The officers appeared to scatter after the barrage of shots went off, according to the footage.



The shooting happened after the man brandished a firearm with two magazines, a law enforcement source told The Post, sharing a photo of the firearm.

In a statement, city officials urged residents to stay calm and avoid the area.


“We are aware of reports of another shooting involving federal law enforcement in the area of 26th Street W and Nicollet Ave. We are working to confirm additional details,” the statement said.

More than 100 protesters had been at the scene when the encounter occurred. The man’s condition was not immediately known.





On Friday, protesters yelled obscenities at two people wearing plain clothes who they believed to be agents after protesters claimed their rental car was linked to the incident, according to video reviewed by The Post.

Neither person was an officer.



Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) posted about the incident on X late morning Saturday as the details of the shooting were still unfolding.

“I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening,” he wrote.

“The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.”


Neither the White House or the Department of Homeland Security have said what precipitated the shooting, and did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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Despite what the Post says about the protestor's condition, Fox News is reporting he died. Spiciness inbound.
 
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Blewberry Nausea said:
“If Jesus had just shut up and stayed a carpenter and never started preaching…”
Sorry, I just know I am going to see this argument somewhere on DemocraticUnderground or Reddit or BlueSky at some point.
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Neither one is worth being called an argument. Jesus broke the law, so therefore you can break any and all laws? No, it doesn't follow whatsoever. And Jesus didn't even break the law, anyways. The Romans apprehended him because the Jewish leadership represented him to them as a violent revolutionary and then killed him even when it was clear he wasn't one to appease them.

But, likewise, if you didn't leave your house, a bad thing wouldn't have happened to you, therefore you deserved the bad thing, isn't an argument either. Recognizing mundane necessary preconditions for an event happening doesn't imply anything about the morality of the thing happening. They could just point to other necessary preconditions as causal like ICE being sent there.
 
So, I'm trying to make sense of this
Day of the Cope said:
I'm seeing a lot of people trying to blackpill about how "the left is going to turn him into some kind of martyr" and can I ask... have you been in a fucking coma? The lesbo bitch that got merc'd has already been forgotten about and she was at least a woman and lesbian which, according to the progressive stack", gives her at least at least +1.5 oppression points. Yet, you have the TikTok NigNogs making videos about how "Say Her Name is only for white people" and not most people can't even remember her first name because no one fucking cares. Meanwhile, this loser is a white (or "white", depending on what you think) make which basically puts him at the very bottom of "the stack" which means they don't care. Fuck, they turned a career criminal who died in police custody from a drug overdose into a martyr.

And for all of you getting sucked into stupid, fucking drawn out conversations about "good shot or bad shot" deserve being on the receiving end of backshots. You tell normal people (see: no one on Kiwifarms) about how "some dude took a loaded firearm to a protest, blocked police officers doing their job, and started attacking them before getting shot", they'll say how the ventilated vagrant got what he deserved. But since the left can't argue against objectively, observable facts, they have to argue hypothetical like "what if a radiation particles from the sun hit his firearm and it caused the round to go off" or other insane drivel. At this point, you need to point out the obvious which is that they are fucking wrong, they are making up scenarios in their own head, and stick to the fucking facts. When you start getting sucked into their headcanon about what happened, you've already lost. You are playing their game on their rules and you will not win.
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Yeah. So far, the PR war has been doing Pretti Good.
 
The proper response is this:

"I don't care."

I don't give a damn what Alex Pretti thought he was doing. He showed up armed to demand ICE stop doing their fucking jobs, and got shot.

I want to know where the fucking concern was when Laken Riley was murdered. Or Kate Steinle. Or Jamiel Shaw Jr. Or one of the numerous other actual citizens who've been assaulted, robbed, and yes, murdered by people who should not be here in the first place.

So if someone wants me to cry over this faggot? Guess what?

They can go fuck themselves.
 
I've seen an uptick of libs I went to college with flipping out on insta, but thats about it. In the last 6 months, I've heard way more talk at work about Zohran than Trump or ICE.
 
Capsaicin Addict said:
The proper response is this:

"I don't care."

I don't give a damn what Alex Pretti thought he was doing. He showed up armed to demand ICE stop doing their fucking jobs, and got shot.

I want to know where the fucking concern was when Laken Riley was murdered. Or Kate Steinle. Or Jamiel Shaw Jr. Or one of the numerous other actual citizens who've been assaulted, robbed, and yes, murdered by people who should not be here in the first place.

So if someone wants me to cry over this faggot? Guess what?

They can go fuck themselves.
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I care more about people who've had their credit card information stolen by illegal alien scammers than I do a thousand leftist faggots getting gassed for even mildly inconveniencing the feds trying to put a stop to it.
 
Day of the Cope said:
I'm seeing a lot of people trying to blackpill about how "the left is going to turn him into some kind of martyr" and can I ask... have you been in a fucking coma? The lesbo bitch that got merc'd has already been forgotten about and she was at least a woman and lesbian which, according to the progressive stack", gives her at least at least +1.5 oppression points. Yet, you have the TikTok NigNogs making videos about how "Say Her Name is only for white people" and not most people can't even remember her first name because no one fucking cares. Meanwhile, this loser is a white (or "white", depending on what you think) make which basically puts him at the very bottom of "the stack" which means they don't care. Fuck, they turned a career criminal who died in police custody from a drug overdose into a martyr.

And for all of you getting sucked into stupid, fucking drawn out conversations about "good shot or bad shot" deserve being on the receiving end of backshots. You tell normal people (see: no one on Kiwifarms) about how "some dude took a loaded firearm to a protest, blocked police officers doing their job, and started attacking them before getting shot", they'll say how the ventilated vagrant got what he deserved. But since the left can't argue against objectively, observable facts, they have to argue hypothetical like "what if a radiation particles from the sun hit his firearm and it caused the round to go off" or other insane drivel. At this point, you need to point out the obvious which is that they are fucking wrong, they are making up scenarios in their own head, and stick to the fucking facts. When you start getting sucked into their headcanon about what happened, you've already lost. You are playing their game on their rules and you will not win.
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Well said, this is only catnip to libfags who were already going to vote blue again. If the GOP gets btfo'd this year it'll be because the Republicans and Trump administration failed to argue that they're getting things on the right track. People want low gas prices, good economy, etc etc.

Your normal person doesn't give a shit about two MAYO GHOULS in Minnesota. Don't you dare compare them to St. George Floyd!
 
Nuclear Poisoning said:
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>get arrested
>pull gun and start shooting at federal agents
>get killed
>all of it on camera
>people who see the guy do it blame federal agents
>governor and failed VP candidate blames federal agents
At this point, I would support Trump sending the Marines into Minnesota and pacifying it. Anyone who disagrees with this is a communist faggot and should kill themselves.
 
Capsaicin Addict said:
The proper response is this:

"I don't care."

I don't give a damn what Alex Pretti thought he was doing. He showed up armed to demand ICE stop doing their fucking jobs, and got shot.

I want to know where the fucking concern was when Laken Riley was murdered. Or Kate Steinle. Or Jamiel Shaw Jr. Or one of the numerous other actual citizens who've been assaulted, robbed, and yes, murdered by people who should not be here in the first place.

So if someone wants me to cry over this faggot? Guess what?

They can go fuck themselves.
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Correct.

I've had enough of Leftists picking and choosing which laws can and can't be broken and their non FUCKING STOP WORSHIP OF FOREIGN CRIMINALS.
Total Norman Death said:
I've seen an uptick of libs I went to college with flipping out on insta, but thats about it. In the last 6 months, I've heard way more talk at work about Zohran than Trump or ICE.
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Same and even then it's not "rraahhh fuck ICE fuck CBP it's actually been (in my VERY limit IG college classmates circle) What happened was bad, no one deserves to get shot at a protest."

Note that the ultra hardcore leftist fucks I blocked ~8 years ago.
 
This shooting and the shooting of renee are not about ice or politics, it's about money. This is all a distraction from massive fraud on an unprecedented scale.

Do you not think it's a coincidence that two ice shootings happen within a week of one another in the state where massive fraud is going on, despite ice being supposedly deployed country-wide?
 
Zoobles said:
If we apply the same standard the Left applied to the shooting of Ashley Babbitt by a federal agent, this shooting was justified regardless of if he even had a firearm.
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"What if the roles were reversed"
That's cool man, I think nobody cares and the dems are going to work night and day to get past the fed immunities to charge every dude in the vid with every crime they can think of while the reps continue to do nothing about the DC nog.
 
Capsaicin Addict said:
The proper response is this:

"I don't care."

I don't give a damn what Alex Pretti thought he was doing. He showed up armed to demand ICE stop doing their fucking jobs, and got shot.

I want to know where the fucking concern was when Laken Riley was murdered. Or Kate Steinle. Or Jamiel Shaw Jr. Or one of the numerous other actual citizens who've been assaulted, robbed, and yes, murdered by people who should not be here in the first place.

So if someone wants me to cry over this faggot? Guess what?

They can go fuck themselves.
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retard laken riley murderer got life in prison, Kate Steinle murderer charged and deported, Jamie Shaw murderer sentenced to death. Sorry that people didnt moral fag enough for you absolute retard.
 
After skimming the thread, honestly I've come to realize that I don't actually care that much about Pretti or the ICE agent, the only thing I care about is these smug leftists suffering for the rest of their lives.

I would throw a fucking parade if a group of people, unrelated to ICE or Republicans directly, would just go to one of these protests and beat every single one of the protestors. Knock their fucking teeth out and everything. Every time I hear the left cluctch their pearls for the 16000th time about how terrible the current happening is and "you should do what we want or you're a backwards human being no one should talk to you bye bye job" I get to the point where I just wanna choke the nearest Twitter democrat I can find.

A normal society would not reward these people for constantly being insufferable cunts banging their chests about social/cultural issues where they don't belong. Why can't we go back to that? Why can't we take these Twitter/Reddit outrage addicted motherfuckers, left and right, and just fucking slaughter them all? Society would improve 10-fold overnight. Even the discussion here is honestly fucking barely tolerable, and that's despite most people here being smarter than probably 95% of the rest of the internet and not just posting thought-terminating dogshit.

It's fucking impossible to have any interest whatsoever in how society works or the current state of the world without encountering the hot take slop and I want it to just end. Please.
 
I don't know why people have to lie. "its not because of my political beliefs, they just did my main nigga jamie shaw so bad I just can't give a damn no more" when its obvious when this thread first dropped and there was no info out everyone clicking their heels and gravedancing. but when the next "innocent cassorle cooking grandma" gets shot dead by some illegal Im sure we will see all the same faces crying and moral fagging. How can you say you "don't care" but bring up JAMIEL SHAW A MURDER FROM 2008 THAT IS SOLVED?! does his fat nigger face weigh on your mind that heavy?
 
Communism4Dummies said:
retard laken riley murderer got life in prison, Kate Steinle murderer charged and deported, Jamie Shaw murderer sentenced to death. Sorry that people didnt moral fag enough for you absolute retard.
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And yet... we are still being swarmed by randos from across the globe.

And the left keeps fucking running interference for them.

Go ahead, niggerfaggot. Call me retard all you like. But the fact we have actual retards who want to protest the removal of illegal aliens does not bode well for a peaceful year.
 
Capsaicin Addict said:
And yet... we are still being swarmed by randos from across the globe.

And the left keeps fucking running interference for them.

Go ahead, niggerfaggot. Call me retard all you like. But the fact we have actual retards who want to protest the removal of illegal aliens does not bode well for a peaceful year.
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if the streets were empty or there were a million protestors this ICE thing was never going to fix a thing. you have 15 million illegals in the US if you think throwing some military aged males in some van and giving them guns was going to make this a "peaceful year" you're dumb
 
Communism4Dummies said:
if the streets were empty or there were a million protestors this ICE thing was never going to fix a thing. you have 15 million illegals in the US if you think throwing some military aged males in some van and giving them guns was going to make this a "peaceful year" you're dumb
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You don't get a say, leafnigger.

I hope ICE kills a few more protestors.
 
Communism4Dummies said:
if the streets were empty or there were a million protestors this ICE thing was never going to fix a thing. you have 15 million illegals in the US if you think throwing some military aged males in some van and giving them guns was going to make this a "peaceful year" you're dumb
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The fact that ICE has them scared has fixed enough for me already.
 
Agent of Z.O.G. said:
"What if the roles were reversed"
That's cool man, I think nobody cares and the dems are going to work night and day to get past the fed immunities to charge every dude in the vid with every crime they can think of while the reps continue to do nothing about the DC nog.
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They were already doing that, and already going to do that regardless of any law or regulation or training. I wouldn't be surprised if they were planning on going after any ICE agent for anything at all.
 
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