Border Patrol agents started the scuffle that led to Alex Pretti’s death

https://reason.com/2026/01/27/border-patrol-agents-started-the-scuffle-that-led-to-alex-prettis-death/

42 Comments

  1. Pretty one sided “scuffle”. It was:
    1) Intimidation
    2) Pepper spraying
    3) Beating
    4) Execution

    That was the escalation, and it all came from ICE.

  2. They keep trying to say he approached them and instigated even though the video shows he was grabbed with his back turned while trying to aid the woman ICE had just assaulted.

  3. I was always curious how Super Villains were able to find so many henchmen. After seeing how many people signed up for ICE over the last few months, I’m no longer curious.

  4. What’s really disturbing to me is how quickly this administration decides on what the narrative is.
    Same thing with the Charlie Kirk murder.
    They were spewing out tweets left and right before they had any actual information and aren’t waiting for any of the actual facts to come in or letting local law enforcement do their job to investigate.

    We are officially living in a fascist authoritarian state. It amazes me that we can look at the same thing and have two completely different perceptions of what just took place.
    It also amazes me if we are seeing the same thing, and some folks are able and willing to lie through their teeth about what they just saw.

    I can’t wrap my head around the blatant corruption, hypocrisy, and projection taking place right now.

  5. 100% using two hands to shove to the ground the peaceful woman Pretti helped, then tackling him as he held his camera. (No bayonette attached)

    From 🇨🇦, it looks like the Trump admin is enthusiatically sending masked gunmen into blue states, to publically execute people, then slander them and lie about it.

    Also possible tangent- conspiracy to deprive people of rights, with illegal orders, and mis-characterization of warrants, etc? Idk

  6. Aliens_Are_Real978 on

    Yes. When you watch the frame by frame, the agents used excessive force and the murder was unjustified.

  7. Watch the first one that starts shoving women left and right full force. His blood pressure must be off the charts. You can see his rage filled eyes bulging out through his mask. He empties that massive pepper spray can on Pretti and then starts beating him on the head with it. A true degenerate with zero control of his emotions.

  8. I’m not saying it was premeditated but ice breaking his rib a week before and then killing him seems premeditated.

  9. Acceptable-Bus-2017 on

    This morning, I read Pretti had broken ribs when ICE agents tackled him the week before. I’m beginning to believe these agents had a database of “agitators” they were targeting, based on the ICE agent that told an observer, “You’re in a database now.” Was Pretti and/or Goods deaths orchistrated? We need to arrest the killers and confiscate their electronic devices.

  10. kittyonkeyboards on

    The mainstream media is hardly asking why Ice Agents are antagonizing protesters on the side of the road. ICE isn’t supposed to even have the authority to do crowd control, and are supposed to be limited in their interactions with and enforcement of civilians.

    And even if they did have the authority to crowd control… there was nothing to control here. They were not blocking anything. The Ice agents approached THEM. They assaulted a woman for no reason and then killed the man that helped her up.

  11. Darth_vaborbactam on

    No shit. This has been painfully obvious since the first footage was released. Why are these murderers not in custody?? Why does silicone Noem still have a fucking job?

  12. It isn’t hard to come to that conclusion when you watch a video where an agent crosses the street, marches 20 yards towards the people with cameras, shoves three of them as they back away, then pull out his pepper spray and start hosing the guy down when he steps between the agent and a woman. He then grabbed Alex’s had when Alex put it up to block the spray so he could grab him and continue to spray in his face.

    That very same agent was the one smashing Alex’s head with the pepper spray can while 5 other agents dogpiled him on the ground – he was on a mission to crack skulls. Every step of the way was a needless escalation of violence and a stunning abuse of power.

  13. Librarian_Zoomies on

    What kind of policing is just randomly pushing a woman to the ground? It was a clusterf**k from the beginning.

  14. They started it and were really the only ones doing anything aggressive through the whole event. Pretti’s actions were entirely defensive and without violence.

  15. I mean, duh. There’s a bunch of videos of exactly what happened.

    …not that the MAGA crowd gives a flying fuck.

  16. whyamionhearagain on

    The only proof available that border patrol started, escalated and murderer Alex Pretti are multiple videos taken at various angles in broad daylight. This is not nearly enough evidence to sway the MAGA faithful.

  17. There was zero reason for it. He was helping direct traffic and they came for him. Then he was helping someone else up off the ground so ICE wouldn’t dogpile them and he got dogpiled himself then murdered.

  18. I’m surprised they haven’t said it was antifa wearing stolen ICE uniforms in an attempt to discredit the agency

  19. Extra attention should be directed at the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. They lifted a lower court suspension on ICE agent strong arm tactics towards peaceful protesters just days before this tragic event with Mr. Pretti.

  20. Electrical-Law-5731 on

    We know… it’s literally on camera from multiple different angles and it’s been enhanced. We know exactly what happened and don’t understand why this is even a debate. He was shot in the back and the ICE Nazi thug mag dumped… what is their excuse for that??

  21. Sorry-Claim-2990 on

    If they’re killing US citizens, it’s not about stopping illegal immigration. 

  22. International_Gap782 on

    Every officer that was a part of this injustice should be tried for 1st degree murder. They deserve to live the rest of their lives in prison.