Posted on 01/25/2026 10:55:04 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Vice President JD Vance called the unrest in Minnesota "engineered chaos" in the wake of another fatal, federal agent-involved shooting over the weekend.
On Saturday, 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a Minneapolis nurse who was carrying a licensed handgun while protesting a federal immigration enforcement operation, was fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent. Authorities say Pretti resisted arrest after trying to intervene in the operation.
In response to the shooting, Vance accused "far-left agitators working with local authorities" of creating the conditions that led to the confrontation between Pretti and the border patrol agents.
"This level of engineered chaos is unique to Minneapolis," Vance said in a post on X. "It is the direct consequence of far left agitators, working with local authorities."
His remarks come as a familiar network of far-left groups mobilize nationwide, often coalescing around disparate causes.
In Minneapolis, the unrest intensified after the shooting, leading several local officials, including Gov. Tim Walz, to call on the Department of Homeland Security and the Trump administration to pull Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from the city.
Walz said in a post on X that he spoke with the White House "after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning."
"Minnesota has had it," Walz said. "This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now."
On Sunday, Walz said: "Minnesota believes in law and order. We believe in peace," and called on Trump to pull "untrained agents" out of the state.
But the White House wasn't keen on budging.
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Its all planned and deliberate, certainly.
They know they have enough marxist martyrs to voluntarily go along with their plans.
What are they protesting. Just stay home....you dumb a** sheep.
I am so confused, I thought it was open season on protestors according to the left?
They were 100% ok with the MURDER of Ashli Babbitt.
give these ICE agents a medal like the left did for the murderer of her!
It’s been going on way longer than Minneapolis.
of course its engineered protest.
but the formal of it is political theatre.
Therefor the feds should be finding ways to make this theatre work against the democrats.
[Vice President JD Vance called the unrest in Minnesota “engineered chaos”]
And it DEFINITELY IS ENGINEERED CHAOS
The Democrats WANT things to go BAD
RICO them all and start charging them with murder under the Felony Murder rule.
Dems. need this distraction from their fraud.
I like that Vance keeps his remarks to the point.
Now...NBC News is live with a "sPEciAL RepORt!" in Minnesota. They are trying to start a war YOU are too FAT and STUPID to fight. You are FAILURES.
Off your meds again?
Prove me wrong. I want this administration to succeed, but when I argue with oldfartschmucks like you, part of me wants them to fail, not so that I am right, but so that maybe some of you will realize this whole time,. you were WRONG, you were PLAYED, it is time for abject PANIC, and that maybe there will be some humility and SOME of you cultists will wake up, although it would be too late.
Maybe YOU need meds, to clear that brain into a sense of urgency. If you are happy with this NOTHING happening, maybe you need something...
You can't see they look incredibly WEAK and impotent? and STUPID? this is 2020 ALL OVER again. tRumP wuZ SAVeD baH JeEbuS! tO F--K uP aLL oVer AgaIN! (sorry for mentioning JESUS, without mentioning ISSSSS-RAAAAAH-AAAAYLE!)
Engineered Chaos = Democrats
MEDIA APPROVED
It’s why the party was formed comrades note history.
So you’re just naturally crazy. Check.
They called all the Prophets and the "prophets" crazy. So, yes. In the world of stupid and weak, being able to see 5 minutes into the future is "crazy". I was right about Jorge duhbya Moosh, and I fear I will unfortunately be right (and I am so far) about donald j. chump.
But you are a fool. Who will be the victim of this weak and stupid administration's inaction and cowardice. And in all the years you have lived, you lack the wisdom to know when time is running out, and there is a point where you can not undo what has been done. When something has been poisoned beyond rescue. We are at that point.
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