Crime Armed protestor killed in Minneapolis

https://nypost.com/2026/01/24/us-news/shots-fired-after-police-in-minneapolis-struggle-to-subdue-man-brandishing-gun-amid-protests-video-shows/

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

By
Geoff Earle and

Elisha Fieldstadt
Published Jan. 24, 2026, 11:29 a.m. ET
970 Comments

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.

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

So we should do the same for all of the ICE agents that we do for judges? Send cops to watch their houses? sounds like a deal.

Sure. Mind you the cops seem of dubious loyalties depending on state

 

[Billy Bob Dick]

It's always these white liberal retards who've never faced any violence in their lives going and getting shot, getting beat up, maced etc.

all the better, a good solid ass-kicking is the missing education that's needed for these faggots

 

[Barry McKockner]

Sure. Mind you the cops seem of dubious loyalties depending on state

Well, there's not enough cops to protect all of the ice agents' houses, so it will likely be the FBI or other federal law enforcement. Maybe even the national guard. I mean, we need to make sure they are actually protected like judges are, right? You wouldn't be suggesting that we half-ass protecting judges, do you?

 

[Billy Bob Dick]

They photoshopped my nigga Pretti to look less jewish because leftists hated that he had zionist aura smdh
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that's hilarious, his head is rounder and his skin is less pasty
Jewish chud > Murican Chad in two easy steps

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

Well, there's not enough cops to protect all of the ice agents' houses, so it will likely be the FBI or other federal law enforcement. Maybe even the national guard. I mean, we need to make sure they are actually protected like judges are, right? You wouldn't be suggesting that we half-ass protecting judges, do you?

I am pretty sure we half-ass protecting judges, yes. Hell we kinda half-ass protecting the President and VP, considering some autist attacked Vance’s house and a Secret Service agent was exposed leaking info about Vance’s security detail and schedule to an undercover reporter he wanted to impress as well as how much he hated the administration.

 

[Meat Target]

Somewhere it was said that the people ICE are recruiting with the bonus get like 30 or 40 hours of training, then are sent out to round up people. It's parroted a lot on reddit. There is NO law enforcement agency in the entire US that will allow someone with zero experience to train for 40 hours, then send them out to do actual law enforcement. Anyone who actually has only received that low amount of training is likely in a non-enforcement support role.

Jonathan Ross in particular has been with ICE for a decade, and is a GWOT veteran.

"You/they need more training!" is nearly always directed at people who know their way around a gun and the rules of engagement better than AWFLs ever will.

 

[Barleys]

From a legal standpoint you have to look at the situation from an objective standpoint, and only look at the events that lead to the shooting to determine whether or not self defense was a reasonable response, the events that lead up to the situation is the altercation not the stuff before the altercation as that isn't what lead to the shooting, if you look at that we see.
Guy interferred with law enforcement
They try to detain the man
He struggles heavily causing a physical altercation
A bunch of officers help to try and detain him
In the middle of the altercation one officer sees the gun holstered and calls it out
The shooter unholsters his gun because he assumes the person is trying to or has grabbed his firearm while the person is struggling, the other officer disarms the guy in the midst of this and leaves to secure the firearm
Sig p320 does what it does best and goes off randomly, keep in mind this is the suspects gun and not the officers

Other officer shoots and kills the perceived threat.
This is the timeline of events, all of this happens in the span of around 8 seconds but the events that involve the shooting happen in the span of 1 second, the officer's fear response is warranted given the entire situation and self defense is legally protected

 

[Barry McKockner]

Look at the left hand of the officer standing pointing the gun at the ai Pretti, notice how it is resting on where that kneeling officers neck is supposed to be? also where is his head?
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The bots and propagandists on reddit are now blacking it out, trying to make it look like they are hiding the face rather than hiding it's AI:

 

[Hunter Hearst Helmsley]

Once again reminding reddit transplants to this forum that ICE agents wear masks because leftists were printing out their home addresses and putting them up hoping someone would go "avenge" Renee Good. If you can't figure out what that means I can't help you.
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And because their job places them at odds with South American cartels with absolutely no hesitation to murder police and politicians.

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

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Describe what is happening in this picture.

The video starts literally mid altercation

The video starts literally mid altercation

Here's an entire timeline with stills since it seems like some people are confused, including Kristi Noem and Dan Bovino:

“This individual went and impeded their law enforcement operations, attacked those officers, had a weapon on him and multiple dozens of rounds of ammunition, wishing to inflict harm on these officers, coming, brandishing like that,” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem
- So, did he in fact brandish his weapon? Did he wish to inflict harm on the officers? Based on the video, can we agree that this was a lie?

When Bovino was asked for a correction about him brandishing the firearm (which obviously would make the shooing entirely justified):
””He brought a semi-automatic weapon to a riot, assaulted federal officers, and at some point, they saw that weapon,” Bovino said. “So, I do believe (Noem) is 100% spot-on in what she said.”
- So again, we're being told he brandished the weapon despite the video showing that's not true.

Can we all agree that the ICE officer is the one who discharged Pretti's gun (accidentally or not based on the video timeline linked above he already had the gun) after he took it and left the group of Agents?

Finally can we all agree that based on literally any video you want to reference (pick your own because something something AI), he was unarmed when he was shot. Right?

See, people can disagree on whether or not this turd deserved to die for being retarded. After all, he put himself in a stupid situation by being armed while fucking with ICE agents. That's a valid opinion. But carrying his weapon was legal, despite what Kash Patel says. And when he was shot, he was unarmed and not a threat to anybody. Those are facts. You can say those facts don't change your opinion. But you can't claim they're not facts.

 

[Hunter Hearst Helmsley]

Don't quote me if you aren't going to answer my fucking question.

 

[Soycast II]

Leftist Jesus is a brown hippie who preached love and equality and attacking rich capitalists and being nice to immigrants. Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah, the only son of God, who was sent to deliver us from sin through his sole act of crucifixion. Leftists don't believe in sin or any moral wrong (except when cops heckin murder protesters attacking them or you don't let brown people in your country illegally) and don't see the true beauty in Christ's sacrifice. I'm willing to bet a majority of them, self-proclaimed Christians included, would deny our Lord's divinity.

What I find funny is how many “Christians” so quickly pass judgement on the ice officer when they have no idea what it’s like to be in a physical altercation. Sure, maybe with absolute perfect judgement and knowledge of the situation he wouldn’t have gotten shot, but he wrote his own demise when he attacked the officer. People forget that law enforcement officers are human too and if I was in that situation I sure as shit wouldn’t take any chances.

 

[Kankichi Ryotsu]

After decades of eroding white solidarity, now libtards want you to sympathize with some ugly antifa kike because "the gestapo is killing white people now!"

 

[Gobermental Supervisor]

- So again, we're being told he brandished the weapon despite the video showing that's not true.

Are you really this retarded that you believe only things captured on video can be real?
Just because the activists did not upload clips of those interactions, yet, does not mean it never happened.

How do you know that at no point in time did he interact with officers before? How can you know that nobody ever saw his weapon during any of those interactions? How do you know he did not verbally threaten anyone or utter fighting words hinting at his intentions?

"He did not do this single thing that would convince during that super narrow timeframe that was captured on video!" is such a retard take its hard to understand how you even breath.

 

[YouTube Autist]

Doesn't really matter, seems like Timmy is buckling.

They were threatening IA.
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"It was a very good call" is such a Trump way of putting it. The mysterious quotation marks around "touched" are also very Trumpian.

The tastelessness and illiteracy of progressives are without limit.

 

[HarblMcDavid]

So, did he in fact brandish his weapon? Did he wish to inflict harm on the officers? Based on the video, can we agree that this was a lie?

Well...you seem to be relying on brandishing being something that only occurs when the person brandishing touches or waves the firearm, which isn't true. In fairness we started at "he waved the gun around" which unless there's something the video didn't catch, did not appear to happen. The issue is that while brandishing would almost certainly apply to waving the gun around, but it also applies to situations that don't necessarily involve touching the gun at all.

I'm pretty sure, in broad strokes, that brandishing as an element of a crime simply requires display of the weapon with intent to intimidate, so I can't actually tell if he brandishes anything during that scuffle though I do see his hands get in the general area of things which if manipulated could reveal the firearm (jackets and shirts). The intent part is a bit hard to prove now though, and the video seems to universally be drowned out by whistling so if he did say anything it might not have gotten picked up.

A more concrete example of what would likely be brandishing as an element of a crime is some thug approaches you, telling you to give them your wallet or else, and then when you hesitate, they pull up their shirt to reveal a firearm in their waistband. He never touched the gun, but absolutely displayed it in a manner intended to intimidate.

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

Don't quote me if you aren't going to answer my fucking question.

Ackshually there was no question as that would be denoted by a question mark.

You posted an order. It was ignored.

Are you really this retarded that you believe only things captured on video can be real?
Just because the activists did not upload clips of those interactions, yet, does not mean it never happened.

How do you know that at no point in time did he interact with officers before? How can you know that nobody ever saw his weapon during any of those interactions? How do you know he did not verbally threaten anyone or utter fighting words hinting at his intentions?

"He did not do this single thing that would convince during that super narrow timeframe that was captured on video!" is such a retard take its hard to understand how you even breath.

Well we can look at DHS’ history of walking back statements they have made initially after incidents to see there is a pattern if them either speaking before they know all the facts or outright lying to create a narrative they hope people will latch onto and never question. Like the ICE ramming in Chicago which was not really a ramming where 10 cars coordinated to box in ICE agents which also did not happen and the women they had to shoot took out her gun to kill them also which she did not do.

Or Renee Good who apparently was coordinating all the ICE blockades that morning except she wasn’t and oh yeah her partner was a child abuser who put out cigarettes on kids except that never happened.

Just saying.

 

[Gay Sex Enjoyer]

You posted an order. It was ignored.

How bro felt typing this out

Just saying.

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[Gay Sex Enjoyer]

Thankfully the actual bodycam footage of this entire incident apparently exists and is being poured over, so the game of pictionary where people comb over a 10 second clip at 120p from 20 feet away and try to draw conclusions from that should be over with soon enough.

 

[pisswomble]

Words from someone whose never physically wrestled with a other.

Pro tip, it's actually pretty hard to subdue a person without causing injury to them. That's why you always see 3-4+ dudes in police bodycams trying to arrest someone.

Wrong, I've had to subdue plenty of people in a previous job. Unless the person is an absolute monster 2 v1 is more than enough, usually 1 v 1 will do it if you've got the strength (and training) advantage.

It's a piece of piss to subdue someone if you're well-trained and not a fat, unhealthy, scared, American mess.

I can't be arsed counting, but it looks like there's 7 or 8 of them struggling to get the situation under control.

Weak men who failed and let their country down in front of the world.