Last updated 4:04 CST with new videos showing an ICE officer took Alex Pretti's firearm before he was shot and killed. As Jeff Day reports, "Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said the man who was shot was a 37-year-old white man with no serious criminal history and a record that showed only some parking tickets. O'Hara said the man was a “lawful gun owner” with a permit. Records show that Pretti attended the University of Minnesota. State records show Pretti was issued a nursing license in 2021, and it remains active through March 2026."
Friends,
I don’t have all the details yet but it appears that 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 Jan. 7.
The person who was killed is believed to be a 37-year-old man, an American citizen who lived in Minneapolis.
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 he 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.
Absolute confirmation that the agent we see running away just before the first shot rings out is running with the victim’s gun. - Isi Breen / @isaiah_bb
The people of Minneapolis, who braved sub-zero 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.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz called the incident “sickening” and said Trump “must end this operation,” adding that “Minnesota has had it.”
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said he saw a video of the shooting. “How many more residents, how many more Americans, need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end?” he asked, adding that “a great American city is being invaded by its own federal government.”
There are now 3,000 ICE and Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis, a city whose own police force numbers 600.
I expect Trump will use today’s protests to invoke the Insurrection Act, and send active military troops there.
But 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 only going after “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.
© 2026 Robert Reich
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Robert Reich is a professor, writer, former Secretary of Labor, author of The System, The Common Good, Saving Capitalism, Aftershock, Supercapitalism, The Work of Nations. Co-creator of "Inequality for All" and "Saving Capitalism." Co-founder of Inequality Media.