Posted on 01/24/2026 7:54:43 PM PST by Morgana
A gun rights advocate says he has major concerns about the legality of the shooting Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti after watching footage of his killing.
Rob Doar, senior vice president of the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, analyzed one of the several videos taken of the shooting of Pretti on Saturday and shared his damming opinion that the killing was unwarranted on social media.
Pretti, who was a US and an intensive care nurse who treated critically ill military veterans, was killed shortly after 9am on January 24, after an altercation involving multiple federal officers.
Video footage showed he was wrestled to the ground before one federal agent fired multiple shots into his chest, after which the agents scattered. The Department of Homeland Security told the Daily Mail that the suspect was armed with two magazines, and the gun was later recovered by federal authorities.
However, Doar noted that the gun may have been found moments before the altercation turned deadly: 'This video appears to show an agent remove a firearm from the holster of the 37-Y/O man (Pretti), prior to the shooting.'
'I never see the man touch his firearm, and it looks like he's disarmed before being shot, said the gun rights advocate in another post.
Doar told Star Tribune that he concluded that, 'If Mr. Pretti was disarmed — absent any other evidence of any risk to an officer —I don’t see how deadly force would be justified.'
The footage, which Doar analyzed, shows several masked agents wrestling Pretti while he is on his knees. An officer dressed in a grey coat and cap appears to pull an item from the protestor's waistline, which seems to be a pistol-shaped object; however, no evidence has confirmed the contents of the object at the time of this report.
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I appreciate your posts. I wasn’t saying that, only saying what he did was worse.
Thanks
Still shows the risk of fighting unknown peeps in the streets.
the shooting was justified the moment the armed idiot became violent with law enforcement exercising their duty.
Darwin Award winner.
Thank you for the correction.
The Dems cheered on Federal Raids to get a girl’s diary in the last administration. yet they want agents attacked now for arresting Rapists and Pedophiles here illegally.
A lot must have happened in two-three years.
Strange how the left suddenly care about the fate of a white male.
It’s a simple as that.👍
2017: Riots
2018: Riots
2019: Riots
2020: Riots
2021: No Riots
2022: No Riots
2023: No Riots
2024: No Riots
2025: Riots
2026: Riots
See a pattern?
An ICU Nurse not carrying ID is very suspicious.
My wife had an operation and pre-op I stepped out for her to have privacy when a nurse was installing something related to the surgery. I was two steps away from that Curtain and a Nurse demanded to know what my reason for being there and what patient I was with (I did have a sticker on my shirt).
I suspect this guy had premeditated that he was going to cause damage and run,
He thinks out his Gun, his magazines, his winter clothes, but makes a decision to leave ID behind.
>The earlier article from DailyMail within an hour or two said he was a great guy. He was caring and family and coworkers said he was a gem.
>He didn’t even have an Id. A permit doesn’t mean anything once you walk into the bank to rob it. He interfered with a Law Enforcement Op.
>He attacked a Govt official and resisted arrest. He was committing crimes (plural).
He didn’t need to be there, it was his choice. He chose poorly.
Don’t attack LEOs. It’s not safe. That is all.
Not sure but i looks like the guy with the gun wasn’t going down on his own. That is enough for me in this case. He is Way too violent to claim he was not a risk. It seems the commies have chosen this battleground. Minnesota is a good place as it is far away from me. I don’t think this will work for the commies. At some point Trump will need to make statements about this stuff. And not back down. Either ICE or “ME” (my new name for ICE) works or it don’t. And i hope the end game is capitulation by the commies. There may be a lot more deaths, but in the end all you have is ICE doing it’s job and people getting in the way. violently.
You are totally correct. It is as clear as day what is being done. Also you never see any beautiful people having this done to them.
Andrew Branca, famous 2nd Amendment attorney says otherwise. Here is some of his X comments from today.
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A man who shows up to a law enforcement action with a firearm and dozens of rounds of ammo, intentionally leaving behind the ID and firearms license the state of Minnesota REQUIRES him to have on his person when armed in public, who reportedly deleted his entire social media presence for heading to the “protest,” and engages in violence with federal law enforcement seeking only to enforce federal immigration law is appropriately deemed a terrorist.
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The video matters. In the Minneapolis Border Patrol shooting, the suspect was actively resisting, multiple agents were attempting to compel compliance, and the suspect straightened up with a firearm in hand—that’s when the first shot is fired. The still frames showing a “bent elbow” appear after the initial shot, consistent with a waistband reach during a struggle.
This wasn’t an “execution” or an ambush. It was a rapidly evolving use-of-force encounter involving a gun, loaded magazines, and active resistance. Media freeze-frames don’t override real-time dynamics. Under self-defense law, an armed suspect reaching during a struggle presents an imminent deadly threat—and officers are not required to wait to be shot.
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The firearm matters—and the media is hiding it. At the Minneapolis Border Patrol shooting, the suspect was armed with a SIG Sauer P320 AXG Combat, a high-capacity 9mm pistol with a threaded barrel, extended 20–21 round magazine, and a SIG Romeo optic—a setup costing $1,500–$2,000. This was not a cheap carry gun.
Officers were in a physical struggle with an armed suspect when a gun was perceived and the word “gun” was shouted. Under settled self-defense law, officers are entitled to rely on fellow officers’ reasonable perceptions. They do not have to personally confirm the threat.
Once a firearm appears during active resistance, the legal standard is simple: reasonable perception of imminent deadly force. That standard was met here. Freeze-frame activism doesn’t override real-time dynamics, and the law does not require officers to wait to be shot. This was a tragic—but lawful—use of force.
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This didn’t come out of nowhere. When Democrat politicians and media figures repeatedly brand ICE and Border Patrol as “Gestapo,” “Nazis,” or torturers, they’re engaging in what the law recognizes as stochastic terrorism.
The mechanism is well understood. Public officials use demonizing rhetoric, create moral panic, and then maintain plausible deniability when a listener finally acts. They don’t choose who commits violence or when—but they know someone will. That’s the point.
In Minneapolis, we saw the predictable result: an armed confrontation during a federal operation after months of political rhetoric portraying agents as evil and illegitimate. The violence wasn’t random—it was statistically inevitable once leaders normalized hostility toward law enforcement.
Speech is protected. Incitement by pattern is not morally neutral just because it’s indirect. When officials light the fuse and then walk away, responsibility doesn’t vanish. It just gets outsourced.
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The video does not show an “unarmed Good Samaritan.” It shows a chaotic physical struggle where a man later found to be armed intervenes, is pepper-sprayed, goes to the ground, and is then actively wrestled as ICE agents move in to regain control.
As the suspect stands up during the struggle, agents reasonably perceive a firearm coming into play—and the first shot is fired. Under settled self-defense law, officers are not required to wait until a gun is fully raised or fired. Imminence includes the moment a weapon is accessed during resistance.
Freeze-frame activists keep asking “can you see the gun?” That’s the wrong legal question. The standard is reasonable perception in real time, including shouted warnings, movement, and the dynamics of a fight. This was a rapidly evolving use-of-force encounter, not an execution. The law does not require officers to gamble with their lives.
“Has it been verified he bit off the finger of an agent?”
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No it was a different event.
“It’s really not good to be a Monday Morning Quarterback with LEO’s doing a stressful job.”
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It’s mandatory if you don’t want any law enforcement people to run over constitutional rights you care about.
Any cop who can’t stand anyone questioning their decision to shoot or kill somebody has no business with a badge.
That is new info to me and very meaningful. It shows intent to me and not good intent.
Bottom line is Walz wife and kid are staying up again enjoying the smell again.
These people LOVED the Riots! And they’re doing everything they can to see it escalates.
Remember, Tampon Tim told the whole state they need to follow the LE Agents and Videotape the gestapo. So now you have Antifa training people and surreptitiously disseminating the location of ICE enforcement actions, and you get this. And they’re orgasmic (in private).
He was not carrying Legal in MN either.
Need ID and permit, or they charge you. It’s established law in MN.
Leave it to the a-holes at Daily Mail to dig this guy up. They may be fine with their country being overrun by raping savages but we are not.
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