Posted on 01/27/2026 3:05:48 PM PST by Navy Patriot
Encrypted Signal messages show 'rapid responders' mobilized demonstrators to harass federal agents, then socialist groups capitalized on killing to foment protests.
The skirmish that led to Saturday's fatal shooting of an agitator by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis and the response that followed were driven by a complex network of far-left organizations with a wide range of causes, a Fox News Digital investigation found.
A coordinated web of encrypted chats, street alerts and tracking of ICE "Abductors" in a sophisticated database reviewed by Fox News Digital shows that agitators were already mobilized at the scene where 37-year-old Alex Pretti was killed minutes before any shots were fired.
ICE and Border Patrol agents were there to arrest an illegal immigrant criminal, and Pretti and others were there, outside a donut shop, to meet them as part of a strategic pattern of organized interference with law enforcement operations.
Over the following hours, a national network of socialist, communist and Marxist-Leninist cells in the United States leveraged the tragic fatality into a nationwide protest operation.
"This level of engineered chaos is unique to Minneapolis. It is the direct consequence of far left agitators, working with local authorities," Vice President JD Vance observed in a Sunday post on X.
The encrypted Signal messages obtained by Fox News Digital in real time show that anti-ICE "rapid responders" were actively tracking, broadcasting and summoning "backup" around federal agents outside Glam Doll Donuts on Nicollet Avenue, where the shooting happened. Local "rapid responders" made at least 26 entries into a database called "MN ICE Plates" in the critical hours before and after the killing, documenting the license plate numbers and details of alleged ICE vehicles they claimed to see around Nicollet Avenue.
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Conspiracy to obstruct federal agents. Slam dunk. Do it man-boy Kash Patel. Quit talking about it. Pam, quit seeking the perfect case. This isn’t a Law and Order episode. Put these Communist a$$holes in jail!
It seems like fun and games for lefties, but it’s the toool by which they commit seditious conspiracy:
In the United States, seditious conspiracy is a federal crime codified under 18 U.S.C. § 2384. It occurs when two or more people conspire to use force to overthrow the government, oppose its authority, or hinder the execution of any federal law.
Key Legal Elements
To secure a conviction, prosecutors must prove that defendants:
Agreed with others: At least two people must be involved in the conspiracy.
Planned to use force: The statute specifically requires an intent to use force, which distinguishes it from mere anti-government speech protected by the First Amendment.
Aimed at specific outcomes: The plot must target the government’s existence, the execution of its laws, or the possession of its property.
There’s a reason they’re called “useful idiots.”
I’m sure they were praying for something like that to happen.
They desperately wanted another saint Floyd.
Right now!
Indeed.
These protest are well organized, well financed and strategically planned to inflict damage on the authority of ICE and the Trump administration.
Funded by Democrats and supporters of the Democrat party... And they alone are solely responsible for the deaths of these protesters.
He doesn’t hold a candle to Pink Floyd.
Where’s Antifa and BLM rioting across the country?
Nowhere. Only Minneapolis.
Pretty sad as martyrs go.
ICE needs to up their game!! 😃
“...a Fox News Digital investigation found. A coordinated web of encrypted chats, street alerts and tracking of ICE..”
Maybe Fox could give FBI some tips? But then nothing would come of it.
My bad…
It should have been Pretti sad.😢
“At 4:12 p.m. ET, Calla Walsh, a controversial communist activist filmed this past summer in Iran shouting, “Death to America! Death to Israel!” shared a 32-second video showing barricades built with Republic Services dumpsters.”
DSA activist who traveled to Cuba and Iran and heads the National Network on Cuba (NNOC), affiliated with United for Peace and Justice (UPJ), a front for CPUSA spinoff Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism.
Another CNN segment from Minneapolis interviewed Chris Gray, describing him only as Pretti’s “next-door neighbor.” Gray spoke about Pretti while delivering a well-scripted appeal for a general strike to dismantle the “Trump regime” and promote “non-violent resistance.” The segment did not disclose that Gray is a member of Socialist Alternative, the U.S. affiliate of the International Socialist Alternative, a “global fighting organization of workers, young people, and all those oppressed by capitalism and imperialism,” seeking to create a “socialist world.”
Soon after, however, Socialist Alternative shared the interview proudly on Instagram, noting, “Chris Gray, Socialist Alternative member and next-door neighbor of Alex Pretti, speaks out.”
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Trotskyist group that has been infiltrating DSA, previously known as Labor Militant, also affiliated with UPJ.
Good find
It’s an organized insurgency. We need to take these folks out before it grows larger than it is.
The take of a retired Green Beret CW4:
https://x.com/Schwalm5132/status/2015470661490057540
https://x.com/Schwalm5132/status/2015938345491218662
By evening’s end, at 9:44 p.m. ET, Gloria La Riva, a co-founder of the Party for Socialism and Liberation who has described herself as “a communist,” posted a message on X, using the inflammatory language now normalized: “Alex Pretti was murdered in cold blood, everyone knows that. 10 shots in his back. All of Trump’s, Noem’s, Bovino’s lies cannot cover it up. The people’s struggle will only grow!”
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Former Workers World Party (WWP, North Korean), supporter of Cuban Five (Miami Five) spies, ran on PSL ticket with terrorist Leonard Peltier.
Several Cuban ties here.
Agree.
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