By Lying about Alex Pretti’s Murder, Kristi Noem Makes Herself a Co-Conspirator In It
Jake Tapper took the video of Alex Pretti’s murder and overlaid Kristi Noem’s lies about it. You can’t show with the video what a declaration from a doctor who witnessed the shooting and tried to provide aide described, which proved Noem’s claim that medics provided assistance.
As I approached, I saw that the victim was lying on his side and was surrounded by several ICE agents. I was confused as to why the victim was on his side, because that is not standard practice when a victim has been shot. Checking for a pulse and administering CPR is standard practice. Instead of doing either of those things, the ICE agents appeared to be counting his bullet wounds.
I asked the ICE agents if the victim had a pulse, and they said they did not know.
After some cajoling, the murderers allowed the doctor to perform CPR until EMS personnel arrived.
There might have been questions regarding the Renee Good shooting.
Here there are none. CBP goons assaulted Alex Pretti, beat him, and then — when they discovered his lawfully registered weapon — murdered him.
Kristi Noem’s lies about what happened — to say nothing of Greg Bovino’s even worse lies (the Star Tribune’s fact check is worth reading) — make them both co-conspirators in this murder.
Kristi Noem’s goons are responsible for two of three murders committed in the state of Minnesota this year, effectively tripling the murder rate with their reckless and cowardly actions.
And Noem has made it clear she is a participant in the murders.
“Which DIS-proved Noem’s claims” ?
Ice is responsible for two of the three homicides in _Minneapolis_ this year
The admin response was pre-scripted; perhaps the killing was also according to plan.
There are indications of just that. The woman who filed a sworn affidavit and witnessed the murder up very close stated that ICE made everyone but Pretti move back from the action, letting him stay filming in the thick of it as they then proceeded to assault him, prior to their gang-murder. That has the hallmarks of a “culling” action, possibly the outline of his gun on his right hip, holstered, was an operational trigger, and so the ICE guy in the gray shirt took the gun from the holster to make it look like Pretti had pulled it out. But removing it from the body an carting it off is itself an incriminating act.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.229758/gov.uscourts.mnd.229758.107.0_1.pdf
“Power-drunk, murderous stupidity” is much too narrow a phrase to describe this shit. She’s rightly scared for her life. There are different kinds of evil, but this kind is as bad as the t
Third Reich.
Has Turd Reich been taken? Surely it has.
Now all the videos make sense. It was a hastily concocted plan, that was executed like they had all done it before in some other place. Will we ever know who these men were as it doesn’t seem likely.
That claim is right up there with the “internal bleeding” that Jonathan Ross supposedly has. SMH
Defamation of the victims seems to be the Modus Operandi whenever D.H.S. screws up. They probably could get away with murder if they just announced that the matter(s) were under investigation, but they are singularly incapable of admitting error…which, as horrific as these murders are, is the greater concern; they have no business being responsible if they can’t handle responsibility.
This is right out of the pre-apartheid South African Police handbook. Petrus Coetzee would be so pleased with this.
Right out of the KGB/FSB playbook, too. No need for Trump and psychophants (thanks Rayne) to read. Putin gives the the instructions and motivation he needs.
How long till Noem announces that all the videos purporting to show the murder of Alex Prettis are AI productions, and, in fact, there was nobody filming the event? That should start next week.
I’m waiting for them to start saying that ICE hasn’t shot anyone in Minneapolis. When you lie, lie big.
“Here’s a video of ICE not shooting anyone. See? See??”
I guess Noem is giving all of us the finger.
At least “Agent Nine-Fingers” still has his life. The same cannot be said for Alex Pretti.
I wonder why, instead of putting this finger in a jar and taking pictures of it to post on social media, they weren’t rushing the de-fingered agent and his digit to an emergency room for them to at least attempt to re-attach it? Could it be because they couldn’t care less about that, when compared to the chance to stoke outrage?
I suppose they’ll say the ER staff is so implacably hostile to them that they wouldn’t have helped. Contrary to the recent case where some medically trained detainees cared for a federal agent having a seizure in the detention vehicle, while the other agents stood around uselessly with their thumbs up.
https://www.startribune.com/detained-by-ice-two-women-became-first-responders-during-agents-seizure/601569667
And then proceeded with taking the detainees into custody anyway.
…or the ‘bitten off finger’ claim is completely invented as was the ‘internal bleeding’ claim.
A definite possibility. I’ve seen a photo of an agent on one of the major news sites (I forget which one) showing an agent clutching his hand with the other, and the hand has a bloody finger. It doesn’t look like any of it is missing. It looked to me like he could just as easily have gotten a similar injury by slamming it in a car door.
And anyway, even if true, why were his fingers on someone’s mouth?
It’s pretty hard for one person to bite off another person’s finger. So unless they’re hiring sharks, wolverines, or the Rabbit of Caerbannog, and haven’t noticed they non-humanity, it’s a lie.
I’ve seen a photo which sure looks like it. But fingertips can grow back, several med journal articles about how the process happens.
My brother chopped off the end of his thumb years ago chopping wood, and it grew back.
Noem appears to be a psychopath murderer. She started on puppies and goats and has moved up to humans in her blood lust.
Cory better keep one eye open!
Also, I did not have the NRA getting upset over this latest killing on my bingo card in 2026.
Rep.Chip Roy was on Fox saying he would not endorse killing people just because they were carrying a firearm.
It is nice, I guess, to see a politician sticking up for his principles even when that goes somewhat against the flow of his other political interests, but I could wish that he had a classier principle to begin with.
Roy is from Texas, where it’s not unusual to see a gun rack in the back window of a pickup truck. (Lots of dove and pheasant hunters. And, I suppose, in the wetter parts, deer hunters. In west Texas, you have to go below the Caprock for that.
Appears?!? Killing a puppy for being a puppy and killing the family pet goat weren’t first clues?
I would say those two events definitely qualify for the ‘psychopath murderer’ label.
You can get that designation merely by looking at her eyes. No room for anything but rabid fealty to the Actual Antichrist. Contradicting the evidence of lterally everyone’s (including her own) eyes is merely the smog of words she pumps from her mouth, like some badly drawn, Baphomet-inspired satire.
Question: are Ellison’s crew wooing recently resigned federal officers to join his team, or to secure their testimonies? Or both?
I’ve wondered about your question, too!.
How thoughtful for Pam Bondi to provide experienced federal attorneys AND experienced civil rights litigators who are suddenly between professional engagements …
Kristi Noem lies with as much ease and shamelessness as Mr. Trump and JV Dance.
Two things that caught my ear were her statements that armed protesters were not peaceful protesters. They are domestic terrorists. So she admits that Trump’s bands of pro-covid, AR armed, body armour wearing “protesters” that were threatening law enforcement and legislators in Minnesota and Michigan in 2000 were domestic terrorists.
If Mr. Pretti really was attacking law enforcement before being killed, does his family then qualify for the $5 million Ashli Babbitt award?
Second, her list of states that had already received Trump’s ok for federal emergency relief for the massive winter storm hitting half of the country didn’t include any of the New England states. Mostly, it was the red states in the path.
Major news outlets are recognizing the lie. Their top online headlines this morning are
NYTimes: Videos Appear to Contradict Federal Accounts of Fatal Shooting
WaPo: Federal agent secured gun from Minn. man before fatal shooting, videos show
WSJ: Videos Contradict U.S. Account of Minneapolis Shooting
But my local newspaper, a small-market daily, didn’t do such a good job. Headline for its AP story:
Federal Agents Kill Man, DHS spokesperson said person had a firearm
I have a firearm (Smith & Wesson .22 target shooting pistol). It hasn’t left its locked bag since we moved two years ago.
Kill me now.
Am currently reading Jessica Pishko’s The Highest Law in the Land and am waiting with bated breath for all the Constitutional Sheriffs to tell Noem and Bondi to stand down.
Remind me: isn’t there a Constitutional Sheriff loudmouth riding range in either Essex or Warren County?
#tu
Lewis County, at least:
https://wskg.org/2023-10-26/how-one-upstate-ny-sheriffs-oath-led-him-down-a-far-right-path
And here’s an AP story on the national situation:
https://apnews.com/article/constitutional-sheriffs-5568cd0b6b27680a28de8a098ed14210
That’s the one, Carpinelli.
I’d be interested to read more about the legal theory that implicates Noem as a conspirator in Pretti’s murder.
I suspect stronger grounds would be found to prosecute her (and Miller) if and when the ICE training protocols and policies come to light. It’s clear that agents aren’t “untrained”, they are trained to punish people exercising their civil rights. Summary execution is just lagniappe.
I very much wonder if some of the statements Noem (since she is secretary), BOndi (as head of DOJ) and others make in the immediate aftermath can really undermine any defense by agents who do find themselves prosecuted:
1) if they aren’t just running a script but to some degree using information provided to them from far down the ranks that indicates deception.
2) Impeaches their own lawyers arguments and employee testimony
3) This agent apparently has 8 years experience and Ross had 10. Which means they have been trained under previous agency policies
4) the formal written policies (as opposed to the Lyons’ secret memo) do lay out things like probable cause policies and, I assume, use of force policies
There is also the distinction between CIVIL law enforcement (DHS) and criminal law enforcement (DOJ) which Noem of course does not comprehend. If she was the head of the local building inspections office she would call her people law enforcement agents. Which they are, but they have to use police where any criminal law becomes involved.
I have heard that historically, many–even most–ICE arrests occurred at courthouses. Since they have no tradition of massive scale deployments they have never developed policies regarding crowd interactions. This caught my attention when a MN veteran (afghanistan captain, he was also a member of one of the military special forces, don’t recall which branch) was schooling agents during protests at Whipple, as he spent a lot of time going into villages and dealing with groups of civilians, telling them their supervisors were not doing right by them by not training them in such interactions)
I don’t think that bad leadership means agents get a pass, but certainly not agents with years in the job. And you’d think basic CPR is at least part of the 47 days. What are they going to do if one of their people does get shot? Count bullet holes as he bleeds out?
They didn’t even check for a pulse! They were apparently more interested in looking for bullet wounds, like they were looking at the paper target at a shooting range. Sick.
Every official defending this shooting should be asked, “Are you saying that anyone legally carrying a firearm may be shot for exercising their First Amendment rights? for taking video in a public street of masked agents abusing the public? for trying to protect a woman who has been shoved violently to the ground?” It seems to me that these are all precisely the sorts of situations that defenders of Second Amendment rights routinely offer as justifying the right to bear arms. There is no evidence I have seen, in several videos, that Petti ever even reached for his gun, much less touched it, much less drew it.
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We need to call a spade a spade: ICE is a domestic terrorism organization.
All ICE hires within the last year must be fired with a no rehire status & this agency must be reformed with a narrow purpose with clear consequences for violating that well defined purpose.
MELT ICE
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It is also worth noting that the man in the grey coat who comes across the street and extracts the gun, presumably Pretti’s gun, from the scrum is generally described as one of the agents, though he is not in uniform. I wonder whether he is generally merging with the protesters as if he were one of them and if so whether he may have spotted the gun and alerted the uniformed agents to its presence. He certainly seems to move into that messy situation with a clear intent. I have seen speculation that he in fact fired the gun at the ground, though it doesn’t look that way to me, but if he did, he was probably setting up a story that Pretti had fired it and in fact he may have precipitated the fire from other officers.
#tu
The theory that I have heard that makes the most sense is that after he secured the gun, he said something like “I have the gun” and one of the other agents misheard that and fired, thinking Pretti had a gun, and then everyone started shooting.
activists in the twin cities have said that ICE is modifying strategies, switching out camo for more typical civilian gear, finding friendly small businesses to loan plumbing vans and such, putting stuffed animals in their vehicles, and joining signal groups. Many of the indivisible members in my signal groups have changed their usernames and taken other steps to secure their privacy. The video purporting to show a protester knocked to the ground by other protesters (“I’m one of you!”–upon which they immediately help him up) shows right after him being escorted to a waiting van by a medic, federal agent, and individual whose uniform state’s Sheriff. He is not being detained, he is being exfiltrated.
my cynical and utterly disgusted take on why the officers were counting bullet holes: they wanted to make sure they each received their challenge coin for the kill.
I don’t know why that would be cynical. Reporting (retweeted by Amy Klobuchar on January 19) is that they get a bounty for each person arrested, whether or not that person is released).
https://xcancel.com/adamscochran/status/2012699790212034999
Trump and his administration are perpetrating of the American Carnage that he waxed about in his first inaugural address. Their loathing of and blatant violation of our country’s highest, (if unrealized) ideals, values, aspirations is heart wrenching and infuriating.
It seems that they are plagiarizing all the worst actions of previous administrations and amping them up to 11.
I have this catalog of political images and memories starting at a very young age: Viet Nam, Watergate, Yasser Arafat/PLO/Israel conflict, political violence, Cold War, CIA adventurism in South and Central America/ The School of the School of the Americas, the threat of nuclear war.
It feels surreal in some sense, but it’s not. It’s all are chickens coming home to roost, all our collective shadow demanding its due.
Kyle Rittenhouse is being awfully quiet.
He is quiet for the obvious reasons, one, he a murderer and two, he is complicit. Birds of a feather lie together.
A killer but not convicted of murder. And apparently he did announce he was going or was prepared to go the Minnesota.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15443805/Kyle-Rittenhouse-Minnesota-unrest-ICE-shooting.html
He better keep his phone in its holster if he knows what’s good for him.
Let’s not miss the outrageous extortion letter Pam Bondi sent to Governor Walz yesterday setting conditions for the federal government to stop terrorizing Minnesota.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/attorney-general-bondi-minnesota-voter-rolls-border-patrol-fatal-shooting/
Notably, the third of the “conditions” requires Minnesota to “allow the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice to access voter rolls to confirm that Minnesota’s voter registration practices comply with federal law as authorized by the Civil Rights Act of 1960. Fulfilling this common sense request will better guarantee free andfair elections and boost confidence in the rule of law.”
What do voter rolls have to do with immigration enforcement? A voter roll and a list of individuals allegedly unlawfully present in the country would be non-overlapping circles in a Venn diagram.
This is blatant extortion by the Attorney General of the United States.
Stop behaving democratically and we’ll leave you alone? I hope someone calls that out and explains to whoever bore the message that they’re complete fucking Nazis and deserve to be treated as such.
If you don’t live near/ in Minnesota, what can you do? I’m watching the Senate to see if they refuse to fund BP/ICE. Am I being a ‘good German’ if I don’t go to Minneapolis? Are you? This is a serious ask- what should I be doing? Can there be a post on what I should be doing? That would mean a lot.
You can send money
Top Organizations for Donations & Support:
Women’s Foundation of Minnesota – Immigrant Rapid Response Fund: Provides fast, community-informed funding to on-the-ground, trusted organizations.
Conversations with Friends (CWF): Provides financial assistance, “dignity backpacks,” and safe release support for detainees.
Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota (ILCM): Offers legal representation to low-income immigrants.
Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid: Provides legal services for immigration issues.
Volunteer Lawyers Network: Offers pro bono legal help.
the Legal Eagle guy said ACLU as well and named some other legal organizations. If you look at the filings from Minnesota you can see the names of other law firms that are helping.
I participate in my local Indivisible group and we did a protest in support of the people of Minnesota. I asked multiple group members what message they had for Minnesotans, recorded them, and put the video up on YouTube under the name “Indivisible Man.” Then I sent the link to a protester I know who lives in Minnesota. So hopefully they’re all feeling a little morale boost.
If you can’t make a video… You can make a financial contribution, protest in your home town, write to your Congress-critters, get on social media and post the real truth, start a local Discord or Reddit to occupy that particular space on social media… there’s lots of work to be done, just waiting for someone to do it!
Stand with Minnesota has been vetting groups and has a list of groups to donate to.
https://www.standwithminnesota.com
I’ve been donating to local legal groups.
Keep writing/calling your MOC. Send encouragement to Gov. Walz and Mayor Frey. Push back on people in your life who parrot the propaganda. I know these things don’t feel as important as showing up. But they do help. And remember — ICE keeps moving around to different cities.
There are a bunch of fine ideas from other folks, but, honest question. How sure are you that ICE isn’t in your state, your city, your neighborhood?
I’m in Dallas, in a red state, but I’m an ABA Immigration Project court observer, so I’m vaguely aware of what ICE is doing at the Dallas immigration court (grabbing people in the hallway and frog marching them to the stairwell), and what ICE is doing at the Dallas ICE field office (semi-randomly detaining people showing up for mandatory check-ins), and, most recently, carrying out sweeps in Dallas and multiple suburbs.
I know clergy who have traveled from Dallas to Chicago, and more recently to Minneapolis, one as recently as this past week, but they are also holding press conferences in Dallas, because of local ICE activity.
They’ll come for all of us, eventually. Please watch carefully, so you’ll notice when they arrive.
Our local umbrella organization that covers much of this is Vecinos Unidos DFW (https://vecinosunidosusa.org/). Perhaps you have something similar near you?
Everything that the commenters mentioned in their replies below, plus *contact your two Senators now* to insist that they do *not* pass the DHS/ICE funding bill this coming week. No more money for murderers/liars/abductors. Burn ICE to the ground and rebuild it or let Border Patrol patrol the border. Minneapolis is 300 miles from the U.S. border.
By now we are inured to expecting Trump, Vance, Miller and their ilk publicly prejudging these shootings, but it is still a bit more unnerving when political hacks like Noem appointed to serious law enforcement agencies like DHS engage in vilifying perceived members of the opposition with bald faced lies before any investigation. The damage to having any fair outcome of an investigation in the particular case as well as other potential investigations seeking accountability and justice in future cases is staggering. I am old enough to remember the public and media uproar when President Nixon in an aside during a press interview stated that he believed Charlie Manson was guilty when his murder trial was ongoing.
Maybe someone who knows the law better than I do can answer this, but can people who interfered with the MPD’s investigation be charged with obstruction under Minnesota state law? How probable is this?
I also remember the reaction to Nixon’s comments about Manson, and it comes to mind nearly every I encounter one of these pre-judgements from top government officials.
Senator Schumer says D’s will use the impending expiring C.R. to defund I.C.E.
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i’m… so… excited…
AND MAYBE PIGS WILL FLY!!!
Can he get Fetterman to vote with the party, for once?
Twas Fetterman who inspired the saying: “All too often, that’s just the way the matzoh crumbles, into a half-baked cracker.”
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“First mover advantage”[5] applies to as much in organized crime as it does in high tech e-commerce. Not just the novelty value of new designer drugs.
There’s the momentary advantage of being the first to cooperate with investigations by law enforcement organizations (LEO) sincerely seeking to identify criminals and assemble evidence to achieve convictions.
Goal is finding a low level criminal who has knowledge of misdeeds of more senior members of an organized crime group (“gang”) who can be pressured into flipping due to heavyweight of evidence guaranteeing they’ll do forty years in prison prior to qualifying for parole. And then repeatedly performing this process until the topmost layer of criminals can be convicted.
What those involved in Trump’s various schemes — criminal gang pretending to be “White House staff” — ought be realizing as they watch Trump’s brain rot, their days are numbered. Low three digits. Might be less than six months.
And in turn, so are people below ‘em in their gang doing the same sort of realization. And find themselves all asking a rather scary question.
_Just who amongst ‘em would be looking to switch sides whilst that is still an option?_
Somewhere inside the bureaucracy, there is at least one nervous paperpusher or low level supervisor or training officer. Could be inside of ICE or CBP or FBI or ATF. Definitely amongst the White House staff. Nervousness due to an understanding of “felony murder” means if he (or she) committed a felony that led to a death, they’ll be charged with murder. Never mind being nowhere nearby these recent deaths in Minneapolis.
As well, there being the definition of participating in an ongoing criminal organization leading to a RICO charge[1], at both the federal levels and the state levels, possibilities as extreme as being charged in all fifty states for the same set of criminal activities. POTUS can only pardon convictions at the federal level, never those convictions in the fifty states.
Then there’s the brutal truism, _it’s not the crime it’s the cover up[3] which gets you in the deepest of shit_[4].
Someone knows things. More than one individual. Time to consider “first mover advantage”.
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[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_murder_rule
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover-up
[4] “It’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up” a modern day cliché born of the Watergate scandal; suggestive of how the effort to conceal wrongdoing was oft more damaging, unethical, and legally perilous than that original offense. Covering up a mistake can escalate a minor issue into a major crisis; some mix of perjury, bribery, evidence tampering, witness intimidation, obstruction of justice, et al, leading to severe consequences much worse than punishments for that initial act.
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-mover_advantage
FYI – the footnotes you included weren’t deactivated.
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The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and Hennepin County Attorney’s Office filed a motion for a TRO restraining destruction of evidence by ICE and others regarding the Pretti shooting. A TRO was ordered and hearing set for Monday, January 26, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. Links to motion and order below
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.230788/gov.uscourts.mnd.230788.4.0.pdf
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.230788/gov.uscourts.mnd.230788.10.0.pdf
It was approved by Judge Eric Tostrud, who is a Trump appointee. As I noted on an earlier post, this also will assume AG Keith Ellison’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) has control of the evidence. I doubt they do, and since ICE has blown off actual court orders in MN in the past, BCA needs to get their hands on the evidence now. The TRO apparently calls for joint investigation.
No. It does not assume that BCA has all the evidence. It assumes that ICE/CBA carried off evidence from the crime scene and the TRO orders ICE/CBP to preserve that evidence.
That’s the point, because I don’t think that ICE is done with their modifications and unless the court puts the evidence in BCA’s hands it will not be there.
I hope that this is just the beginning, and that for once we’ll see some of these ICE private army (“alleged”) murderers being arrested by state law enforcement and hauled off to court to answer for their actions. This unrestricted brutality against ordinary citizens has gone on for far too long already without proper challenge.
We’ve come a long way in short order since Trump 1.0: “can’t we shoot protesters in the legs or something” which was stopped by Guardrail Mark Esper (also Sec’y of Defense). Our current SOW, the AntiGuardrail, (from BBC News):
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has just voiced his support on social media for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, after the back-and-forth between officials over today’s fatal shooting.
“Thank God for the patriots of [ICE] — we have your back 100%. You are SAVING the country,” he writes.
“Shame on the leadership of Minnesota — and the lunatics in the street,” he wrote, signing off with “ICE > MN”.
So IOW Petey, Might > Right, Trump Admin > Law…and other mathematical statements, eh?
I wonder if he likes first-person shooter games. Because that sounds like the [un]reality he lives in.
The TRO was supposed to be served last night. When service was attempted they were told it would not be accepted by email or in person until Monday morning. I don’t know what, if anything, the judge will say about this.
It would have taken a lot less work to accept service than to have this DHS spokesidiot come up with that excuse and put it out.
Ducking service is just the kind of bush league crap I would expect from these people.
this is beginning to be SOP in many jurisdictions, especially in cases where Habeas/bail bonding is attempted or is granted. the website for paying bonds doesnt work, or must be paid in person when there is no in person function available.
That will make the 2pm Monday hearing very interesting,
But I thought eservice is the STANDARD these days.
Quislings have a common ending.
“This government was founded on protest.” — Thurgood Marshall
Regarding litigation in MN, from Chris GEIDNER today at LawDork:
The ICE killing of Alex Pretti, the second in Minneapolis, prompts quick legal action
After federal agents killed the nurse on Saturday, lawyers responded quickly —
leading to one TRO issued before the night’s end aimed at preserving evidence of the killing. https://www.lawdork.com/p/the-ice-killing-of-alex-pretti-the Chris Geidner Jan 25, 2026
And two Updates:
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1:24 PM · Jan 25, 2026
https[:]//bsky.app/profile/chrisgeidner.bsky.social/post/3mdbgcmfs5c2z
2:05 PM · Jan 25, 2026
It’s too bad that DOJ doesn’t have to live under the rules they want the rest of us to live under. Or the rules that DHS seems to think apply to all of us peons.
“…how can you run when you know…”
Apropos of …I don’t know. I live up here on the northern border; I can literally throw a rock across the St. John River into Canada. Where once Border Patrol was as ubiquitous as the driven snow, they are now non-existent. Border Patrol was everywhere (in a very benign fashion), now, they’re no where to be found. I haven’t seen a Border Patrol vehicle in town, or out in the woods, for months. They haven’t driven past my house since at least October. Where they went, or what they’re doing, is a mystery that we’re all talking about up here. They’re not stopping in at the Diner and buying breakfast, they’re not getting coffee down at Tim Horton’s, they aren’t meeting up in Marden’s parking lot.
ICE and Border Patrol have, obviously, always been a daily presence here, but in a good way. No animosity, friendly, courteous, …laid back. Now, I don’t recognize what they’ve morphed into.
I’m having a really hard time trying to reconcile the officers I know with the horrors that their brethren are inflicting on people in Minnesota.
Couple of MN videos show people asking CBP why they aren’t actually at the border protecting it. They probably figured your guys in Maine would be better equipped to handle the cold.
There actually is video of the doctor’s declaration. She says there’s more to it, but the core details in her sworn declaration are pretty much verbatim what she says in the video.
https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/1…s_witness_describes/
Was that a slipp when she referred to violence against our citizens?
Of course, neither of the two women Pretti tried to help were Mr. Huerta-Chuma.
And the Hmong guy they claimed lived with the old guy was in a Minnesota state prison the whole time.
And the sex offender who made bail in Cottonwood County had to be released because ICE said they were too busy in Mpls to pick him up and would pick him up later (jail gave ICE the guy’s address).
(NewsNation) — The Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) said U.S. Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino provided inaccurate information about the target of an operation in Minneapolis on Saturday before the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti.
Bovino claimed Jose Huerta-Chuma, who Border Patrol agents were targeting Saturday morning, had a criminal history that included domestic assault to intentionally inflict bodily harm, disorderly conduct, and driving without a valid license.
The state’s DOC says Huerta-Chuma had never been in custody, based on the department’s data records and court data. The records also showed Huerta-Chuma had committed no felonies in the state, nor was he currently under supervision from the state.
“DOC records further indicate that an individual by this name was previously held in federal immigration custody in a local Minnesota jail in 2018, during President Trump’s first administration,” the department said in a statement. “Any decisions regarding release from federal custody at that time would have been made by federal authorities. DOC has no information explaining why this individual was released.”
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem said the department will be leading the investigation of Pretti’s death. Pretti’s family told The Associated Press that he was upset by the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis and the recent death of Renee Good, who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jan. 10.
DHS acknowledged it has arrested over 10,000 migrants in Minnesota in the past year and over 3,300 migrants since it launched Operation Metro Surge on Nov. 29.
How many of those DHS arrested were innocent of whatever DHS claimed? How many were citizens or legal residents with no criminal records? And how many children did they take?