A new video purportedly shows Alex Pretti spitting at federal agents and damaging a government SUV days before he was fatally shot by U.S. Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis. The video does not alter the analysis of whether the fatal shooting was justified. However, it raises some obvious questions, including why Pretti was not previously arrested on multiple grounds. The videotape also contradicts the family’s account of the earlier encounter.
The new videotape shows a violent individual who forced the confrontation with officers. Pretti is shown screaming “f— you” repeatedly while flashing double middle fingers. A second tape shows him yelling “assault me Motherf—ker.” He then destroys the rear signal light and the surrounding area.
The attorney for the Pretti family, Steve Schleicher, issued a statement that:
“A week before Alex was gunned down in the street — despite posing no threat to anyone — he was violently assaulted by a group of (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents. Nothing that happened a full week before could possibly have justified Alex’s killing at the hands of ICE on Jan 24.”
While some of us have objected that the videotape of the fatal shooting did not support initial claims of the Administration on Pretti threatening officers before the shooting, this video clearly does not support the claims of the family. Damaging the vehicle and spitting at officers are violent acts that are threatening to law enforcement. It was not a “violent assault,” but a justified takedown by officers. What is curious is the fact that Pretti was then let go by the officers.
Pretti should have been arrested and charged with a felony for damaging the vehicle and attacking officers. Since he was armed, he could have been charged with committing a felony in possession of a weapon.
I am mystified why Pretti was not arrested. He clearly damaged the car and appears to be resisting arrest. I fail to understand why the agents took him down but then failed to complete the arrest. It may be due to the mob that was forming. (Protesters bizarrely express surprise that the agents would move against a man who just damaged their vehicle).
Again, the videotape does not have bearing on the lawfulness or unlawfulness of the shooting. While it shows a history that may explain Pretti’s resistance before the shooting, the question is whether his actions created a belief that officers or others were in imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death. We still have to see the body cam footage to see what preceded an officer screaming “gun.” Many details still must be confirmed. Keep in mind, the question is not whether officers were right, but whether they were reasonable under the circumstances.
Here is the new videotape from the prior encounter:
Here’s a strange question. Who gave that video to the government? Or who posted the video originally. Was it from an ICE agent’s body cam? Or did it come from a fellow protester?
@X
Believe it or not, I am also sired of refuting the likes of you. Your contrariness is beyond annoying. Do you want body cams or not? I actually think ICE should very much be recording everything, because thus far, their evidence is supremely damning to these pathetic child insurgents.
To not mince words: you are stupid.
I would have in the past just said ridiculous, but really, you are an idiot. The rest of us are not. Spare us. You are literally clutching at straws, and imaginary straws at that. All we see is someone trapped inside of some kind of self-created bubble of madness. You might as well be screaming at the wall in a gutter. What echoes back to you bounced off of the walls is actually you, so the person/people you imagine you have an issue with isn’t that someone trapped in the gutter, screaming at the wall. That would be you. You shoot your own verbal bullets directly at yourself, and they seem to hit with accuracy, every time. That you don’t see this means you are not something we could call ‘well’. Even if you are just a paid troll, the aforementioned applies to your willingness to possibly even worse, do it for money.
I hate to give credit to the fascist revolutionaries of the past, but they were not paid, and they did not go home to mom and dad at the end of the day (in your case, likely generational wealth or a trust fund). You are pathetic in every sense of the word, spanning every and any ideology. It’s part of the problem: you do not believe in anything above your own personal comfort, be it intellectual, physical, or emotional. You are sad in a manner that redefines, ‘sad’.
James,
HAHAAHAHHAAH!!!
Thanks!! Even though I nearly had hot tea come out of my nose.
@Upstate
You are welcome. 😂
James, triggered much? I merely asked the question that I think is relevant. I didn’t say ICE shouldn’t have body cameras or anything of the sort. All I asked was who recorded that event. Was it another protester or ICE? That’s it. You went off on a rant dude. Geez.
@X
No, bored. You are boring. You are redundant. You are boring. So very, very boring. Thinking people do not think of George in their spare time. Volunteer at a soup kitchen if you have the guts (oh, but you don’t), instead of posting here. Feed some pigeons. Whatever. Nobody here cares about your idiocy or your own anonymous responses to your own idiocy.
Wrong AV, but same poster. User error.
How exactly would you expect anyone here to know who filmed the event?
.James, X’s purpose is obfuscation. No one should argue with a fool.
@Anonymous
Yes, I know. They have haunted this blog for years. One: talk about ignorant and privileged, but, two: newer readers are not aware of this fact. X is George is “_”, and we all know it. Yawn, but *smack*, too. It’s fair to familiarize new readers with the resident troll.
X’s purpose is to try to get a reaction, so that he can use it to justify his nonsense.
I couldn’t have said it better! Thank you!
I think the videos that initially hit social media came from fellow protesters or news agencies.
Professor, why doesn’t the title to your article state that Alex Pretti committed a felony while in possession of a firearm 11 days before his death, or that the DOJ or Minnesota failed to prosecute Alex Pretti for committing a felony while in possession of a firearm?
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AI Overview
In Minnesota, it is a felony for anyone previously convicted of a crime of violence to possess or transport a firearm, punishable by up to 15 years in prison and a $30,000 fine
. First-time offenders for “felon in possession” charges face a mandatory minimum sentence of 60 months (5 years) in prison.
Key details regarding Minnesota’s prohibited person laws include:
Permanent Bans: Convictions for violent crimes (e.g., murder, assault, burglary, arson) result in a lifetime ban on possessing firearms or ammunition.
Scope of Restrictions: Prohibited persons include those convicted of felonies, certain gross misdemeanors, or those subject to extreme risk protection orders.
Mandatory Minimums: A felon in possession of a firearm faces a mandatory 60-month prison sentence. Even possessing a gun while allegedly committing another crime can result in a 36-month mandatory sentence.
Restoration of Rights: Rights can only be restored through a court order, pardon, or if a conviction for a non-violent felony is reduced to a misdemeanor.
Illegal possession includes both actual possession and “constructive possession” (having control over a firearm even if not on one’s person).
Turley probably wrote this article before the information that he had a gun at his previous interaction with ICE. I only saw the video today.
CNN stooped the clip early, so you didn’t hear that he had his pistol with him. Also, as the clip ran, the gun tucked into the back of his pants was observable. IMO, I don’t think ICE knew he had it when they released him.
This video does not resolve the legality of the shooting, but it materially undermines the family’s account of the prior encounter. Spitting on officers and damaging a federal vehicle constitute criminal acts, and the officers’ takedown appears legally justified. The unresolved issue is why no arrest followed conduct that plainly supported felony charges. That failure is relevant not to justification of the later shooting, but to institutional breakdown. The sole remaining legal question remains unchanged: whether the officer who fired acted reasonably under the circumstances at the moment deadly force was used.
I haven’t read through the myriad of comments, but if past patterns hold, they will again avoid root causes and focus on narrative skirmishes. That tendency is what ultimately makes serious reform impossible.
Officer(s)
What, are you being charged by the letter? So the root cause(s) of what you’re referring to are that? And your fix, whatever that may be will solve the problem, whatever you perceive it to be?
Thanks for trying but damn, saying nothing would have been only slightly less serious.
“The sole remaining legal question remains unchanged: whether the officer who fired acted reasonably under the circumstances at the moment deadly force was used.”
Shall we understand from your post that there was only one “officer who fired”?
I don’t see how that inference follows. My comment speaks to the legal standard, not the number of officers. Each officer’s conduct is assessed individually under the reasonableness test.
. Gather 12 LEOs with draft cards and ask if it was reasonable.
PLEASE don’t ask anyone else like Grammy.
Shall we understand from your post that there was only one “officer who fired”?
OLLY,
I made a comment discussing and giving examples of signs and symptoms of TDS and questioning what will it take to stop the irrational TDS. What is the root cause? What is it that makes them think or believe they have license to commit these acts of violence? I know we have discussed institutional principles and how the break down of a common belief in them can lead to the down fall of society. This seems like the break down of what was once commonly believed in civics, rule of law, common sense.
Thank you Upstate, well done. That question gets closer to the truth than most of the commentary here. What you’re describing isn’t about Trump or any single event. It’s the result of a breakdown in civic formation. When people no longer share a basic understanding of rule of law, limits on power, and personal responsibility, they begin to believe they are justified in acting outside the law for a “cause.”
Once principles are replaced by narratives, restraint disappears. Law becomes something to be used against opponents rather than a standard applied to oneself. That mindset is what makes violence seem permissible, even righteous. History is very clear about where that leads.
OLLY,
I note in a comment made earlier today that this video helps establish a pattern.
https://jonathanturley.org/2026/01/29/new-video-allegedly-shows-alex-pretti-spitting-at-agents-and-damaging-car-days-before-fatal-encounter/comment-page-1/#comment-2601134
What is the root cause for him and others to think their actions like this are justifiable?
Like I said earlier Upstate, I had not read all the comments…yet. But you are asking the right question here.
The root cause is not simply individual pathology or a single bad choice. It is the breakdown of shared civic standards that once defined what conduct was acceptable regardless of cause. When people no longer accept the rule of law as a neutral restraint, they begin to substitute personal grievance and group narratives for legal boundaries. At that point, resistance is reframed as moral action rather than criminal behavior.
Once authority itself is treated as illegitimate, enforcement is no longer seen as law enforcement but as provocation. Violence then becomes justifiable in the mind of the actor because it is framed as righteous, defensive, or necessary. That mindset is not self-correcting. It is the predictable result of a society that has abandoned common civic formation in favor of narrative allegiance.
“When people no longer accept the rule of law as a neutral restraint, they begin to substitute personal grievance and group narratives for legal boundaries. At that point, resistance is reframed as moral action rather than criminal behavior.”
That is excellent, and succinct, writing, Olly.
Thank you lin! I’m truly done wasting time on this blog arguing about this “tree and that “tree” when the entire “forest” is rotting away.
. And how did that happen, Olly? What went into the creation of a United States without civic form and fractured it into group causes.
Was it reasonable isn’t the question as Justice Alito marvelously pointed out when officers and agents are left out there alone, in Minneapolis without a shred of reason. Your reasonable question can’t be answered.
Then you’ve brought in the larger polysci problem. You’re correct.
It didn’t happen overnight and it didn’t happen by accident. A republic without civic formation is the predictable outcome of decades spent hollowing out shared standards in favor of grievance politics, identity causes, and moral relativism. When civics is replaced with activism and law is treated as a tool rather than a restraint, fragmentation is inevitable. Group causes fill the vacuum left when common principles are abandoned.
And Alito’s point goes precisely to that failure. When institutions refuse to enforce the law consistently, officers are left isolated, operating in environments stripped of clarity and support. “Reasonableness” presumes a functioning legal and civic framework. When that framework collapses, the question becomes harder to answer because the conditions that make restraint possible have already been eroded. That is the larger political and civic failure at issue here.
“What is the root cause for him and others to think their actions like this are justifiable?”
The root cause is moral superiority. If you were deceived into believing that another person was truly a Nazi or a member of the Gestapo, your moral compass would justify that you treat them like this.
Of course, we know that’s nothing more than a façade – or they would have been daily marching outside the White House, their own state houses, and offices of their elected officials, demanding the non-stop search and return of the 300,000 children the Biden administration lost track of.
Truly moral people dont pick their battles. The battle chooses them.
. In this specific case Pretti broke loose perhaps by removing jacket. Officers did not chase as the focus was other. Would federal agents have taken Pretti to? Upon arrest?
The breakdown is between State, City and Federal government in this specific case.
Minneapolis is a long standing organized crime city and Minnesota at large. It’s been left to grow and entrench as diseases do within the body of the United States. The host body receives nothing in return causing crippling loss.
It’s organized crime, Olly. How you’ll classify that or categorize it doesn’t lend itself to any Constitutional error. Organized crime works on mafia State organization and not a US government model.
I’m unclear as to what you’re asking. Minnesota is a tumor within the United States gut and 8ts metastatic.
. Pretti ran, escaped.
. Yes, it was reasonable. Now charge Walz, Ellison and Frey for depraved indifference, negligence in no cooperation with federal law enforcement agencies by deploying local officers and Minnesota NG for the public safety of citizens and law enforcement. The little guy died because of depraved hearts and negligence in violation of public safety and the little guy officer to bear the ire and consequences of this event. Scorpions sting Ellison and frogs foolishly give them a ride Walz.
I fundamentally disagree with your reasonable accusations that miss the mark of the true perpetrators of this manufactured event and consequences. Officers are free to go on leave. Arrest Minnesota leadership and have them defend their actions and inactions with fact and without the obfuscation of emotion.
Yes, Olly, the officers reasonableness in an unreasonable situation and circumstance set the officers free on R&R.
What to do? Develop civic formation via education. Prosecute RICO and crime.
Chaos is not a bug today. It is a feature. Endless debate over symptoms may be cathartic for some, but it avoids the harder work of identifying causes. I chose a different path.
After recognizing the pattern of civic ignorance, civic apathy, and dependency on government, I cannot unsee it. Those conditions explain the behavior we keep arguing about, and until they are addressed, debating individual incidents is largely beside the point.
Why wasn’t Pretti arrested for vandalizing a federal agent’s car? Oh man, Professor – you are SOOOO close to figuring this whole thing out, aren’t you?
Maybe – and I’m just spitballing here – but JUUUUST MAYBE, it’s because these agents have had no training and thus have no actual idea what the law is and when they can and cannot make an arrest and how that arrest should be made.
Should’ve saved your ‘spit’. It would’ve been far more useful lubricating the few remaining brain cells that appear to be barely functioning, as opposed to polluting the atmosphere with your nonsense.
At what point during the ongoing events do you hold the mayor and governor accountable for not protecting their citizens by utilizing their cops to create a buffer between the rioters and ice agents performing their lawful duties?
Not to mention, Minnesota police are trained in crowd control, which would be used to protect their citizens.
But to claim that ice has ‘no training’ confirms that you have ‘no understanding’ of what’s going on that isn’t fed to you by your media overlords and white-guilt-laden degenerates from Minnesota.
@ Anon 1:39 Or because they didn’t want to get shot in the face and were vastly outnumbered by present and approaching ambush “protesters”? And if they bothered to defend themselves, have their families doxed, attacked, impoverished, and serve a life time in jail or executed by Marchan and ilk? Jeez, who would have thought.
Ano
Dumb comment. Watch the video. There were far more protestors then ICE officer.
They made a smart move to leave
Where are the local police, who are trained in crowd control? It’s their job. Why are they standing down? Who specifically is giving the orders to not respond to public disorder? Voters need to know who created the policies that forced ICE into this situation, and who refused to protect their citizens once the radicals had a foothold. This is a public safety issue, not a political sporting event.
The orders given by the mayor of Minneapolis, the governor of Minnesota et al. required all officers in Minnesota to be complicit in and accomplices to multiple felonies.
Jocelyn, Laken, Rachel and Larisha
and the wind cries Mary
Oh my you mean St Alex is not actually? The sweet boy nurse who only wanted to save humanity and share his kindness with ALL? All except those he deemed unworthy, right? Wow what a patron Saint of Spit and Vile. Not a surprise that a nit wit would keep upping ante as he kept “jumping into the action” like Chuck Norris. Darwinism always wins!
Alex Pretti, the nice guy. Another Leftist hoax goes up in smoke! Have we passed a million yet? Everything the Left says seems to end up being shown to be a hoax. Leftists live in a world of their own narratives rather than facts.
Why does Professor Turley exert such effort to expose the splinter in the eye of the other side while remaining blissfully indifferent to the beam in the eye of the side which he is defending all the time?
Jocelyn, Laken, Rachel and Larisha are the beams in your eyes.
Ha – he knows who buys his books. Best not bite the hand that feeds you. Conservative radio / podcast host Hugh Hewitt was once asked about how he could continue to defend indefensible acts on the Right so emphatically and he actually replied honestly, “If I told the WHOLE truth I’d lose most of my listeners.”
Typical Leftist liar…omitting the part of Hewitt’s quote that gives context to the cherry-picked portion of the comment you selected. Hewitt clearly went on to explained that he doesn’t talk about January 6 anymore because his audience is Board with it. They also realized that it was a witch hunt when Pelosi excluded conservatives from the committee. here’s his quote:
“I never talk about January 6th because I like my audience,” the radio host declared. “I don’t want them to turn me off. And they’re bored. They do not like it,” he said, adding that because House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected several Republican appointees to the congressional committee investigating the day’s events, “It is illegitimate.”
@Michael
That they could even be ‘bored’ with it, tells you they are sick, that is was always a farce, and that they have only one purpose (that would be permanent power). There is nothing sane going on there. Not a thing.
Confused @Klaus Kastner – when you say “blissfully indifferent” which advocates were you referring to:
DA Bragg’s office drops case against woman who allegedly sucker-punched pro-life activist (https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2025/09/1862/1046/savannah-craven-violent-liberal-attacks.png?ve=1&tl=1)
OR
“This is a small bunch of wannabe Nazis. That’s what they are. In a country of 350 million, we outnumber them. If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice.” — Larry Krasner, Philadelphia DA, today (1/28/2026) in a press conference.
In the 2025 election, the Soros foundation’s political action committee contributed approximately $1.45 million to support Larry Krasner in his bid for re-election as Philadelphia District Attorney. This backing mirrors previous support, as Soros had already contributed around $1.7 million in Krasner’s initial campaign.
Psssstttt, Klaus…. did your lack of reading comprehension skills contribute to you missing this statement of Turleys in the article, or are you just an unfortunate product of the public school system?
Turley: “The video does not alter the analysis of whether the fatal shooting was justified.”
It is possible to discuss multiple aspects of these incidents without nullifying or attempting to justify other aspects.
But of course, coming from the left, I’m confident your desire to shut down or censor Speech that makes you uncomfortable, or muddles the groupthink narrative, Is more at the heart of your objection than anything else.
Each of the monsters responsible for murdering these women:
Jocelyn Nungaray (12, Texas)
Laken Riley (22, Georgia)
Rachel Morin (37, Maryland)
Larisha Thompson (South Carolina)
is a criminal the mob fights for. The mob seeks to protect them. Law Enforcement, they are the criminals. That is how criminal the mob is.
There is a longer, few minutes version of this event. Pretti runs fast on sidewalk toward the intersection at the last moments and immediately proceeds to assault agents. Initially, he was far away from intersection and somehow got attention, either via rioters’ group on Signal (part of which he was), or by noise/commotion in a distance.
CNN (which nominated him for sainthood) reported that he got rib broken in between this incident 11 days earlier and his last FAFO day. He was busy at mostly peaceful protesting.
Homan refused yesterday to say details regarding Pretti’s Signal group, and only implied mass arrests coming soon. Pretti’s phone data retrieved by the Feds may be Tampon Tim’s ultimate downfall.
He was a federal employee directly employed by VA, and should have been fired for assaulting federal agents.
Minnesota statute 609.11 provides for enhancements of penalties when one possesses a firearm during the commission of a felony. Destruction of property is not among them. And though it does increase the penalty for first, second, and third degree assaults, the conduct of Pretti in resisting arrest or spitting at the officers or their vehicle wouldn’t be one of those. So I think Prof. Turley erred when he said Pretti’s possession of the firearm during the earlier incident would have increased the penalty if arrested for destruction of property or assaulting the officers. But as Charlie Kirk said, “Prove me wrong.”
There are federal charges for the spitting and damage to the vehicle. State charges I do not think would apply especially with the judges and prosecutors like Ellison.
Thank you for reminding me of the federal statute. (I shouldn’t need it, because my practice is now limited to federal court and I represented many Jan. 6 defendants in the US District Court for the District of Columbia. In other words, I should know better.) The federal statute for assault on a law enforcement officer is 18 U.S.C. §111. There’s an enhanced penalty for causing bodily injury or death with a weapon, up to twenty years. Mere physical contact is 8 years, even without an injury. No contact is a one year misdemeanor. That’s what the spitting would amount to. But mere possession of a firearm or deadly weapon in the commission of an assault does not carry an enhanced penalty.
“But [carrying] a firearm or deadly weapon in the commission of a [crime of violence against person or federal property] does carry an enhanced penalty.”
Professor Turley may have been referring to 18 USC § 924(c), which provides for exactly what he indicates (use OR carrying of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence).
Then again apparently the feds don’t know the difference between possessing and brandishing a firearm and the importance of this distinction to sentencing. So, it’s unlikely they know the specific statutes that may apply.
Maybe training is important?
Maybe training is important?
maybe closed borders are important?
maybe don’t encourage violence?
Maybe encourage following laws?
Maybe don’t be insane?
Maybe don’t fight with LEO?
Maybe maybe maybe
As someone who lost a son a few years back who was a five years younger than Freddie, the heartbreak this family is experiencing is indescribable and unimaginable. My heart truly feels for them.
however, we now have confirmed evidence that he never intended to be a peaceful protester exercising his constitutional rights on two separate occasions.
We saw him violate the law in this instance, and we saw him violate Minnesota law in the first incident by not carrying identification on him, or carrying his permit to carry a concealed weapon.
Who needs to carry a firearm if they truly just intend to peacefully protest… And why the need for a fully loaded weapon and additional magazines on him if protest was his soul Objective?
Alex Pretti is no victim. He volunteered to create the circumstances that cost him his life.
He was a hero days before he was shot.
He would be alive today if he had kept back.
What a hero, protecting rapists, pedophiles and criminals. He was swell, what a guy🤡
I just thank God there is someone with your intelligence and rationality looking at these situations.
Amen. Turley examines everything carefully, rationally and interprets that data in light of a brilliant, knowledgeable constitutional scholar.
“ While some of us have objected that the videotape of the fatal shooting did not support initial claims of the Administration on Pretti threatening officers before the shooting, this video clearly does not support the claims of the family.”
Some of us? You barely acknowledged the Trump administration was outright lying. Because everyone noticed big of a lie they tried to spread in contrast to reality. Professor, you tried to join in on enabling of the false narrative against Pretti. Come on.
Turley is, as almost everyone on the right, looking for an excuse to dismiss the seriousness of the shooting and look for an excuse to deflect. That is expected.
“ The new videotape shows a violent individual who forced the confrontation with officers. Pretti is shown screaming “f— you” repeatedly while flashing double middle fingers. He then destroys the rear signal light and the surrounding area.
The video shows an angry protester. Not a violent individual. Characterizing Pretti as a “violent individual” incorrectly insinuates that he is violent all the time. Kicking a vehicle and allegedly spitting on officers is not evidence that he is a “violent individual”.
Kicking the light out is at as minimum a misdemeanor, not a felony. The alleged spitting can be charged as a felony but that would require the individual ICE officer to file charges if he indeed got spat on. Spitting on and spitting AT an individual are distinctions that determine the charges.
If Turley is confused about why Pretti was not arrested, perhaps as he mused, was because there was a growing mob and few officers….or… they were too overwhelmed with so many other protesters. Who knows since there is very little information.
The video is alleged to be real, but with so many AI fakes out there it’s possible it’s just an AI. I mean the Trump administration has used AI to manipulate a photo of one of the church protest organizers a few days ago.
But as Turley noted, this alleged video does not change the facts of what happened to Pretti. The Trump administration has already backtracked on its claims about what happened and formally put on leave the two officers who shot him. It may mean the evidence of an unjustified use of deadly force is very likely. Miller even admitted the officers did not follow proper protocol. That is not a good sign.
“ I fail to understand why the agents took him down but then failed to complete the arrest.”
Like it has been the norm with these guys perhaps they just wanted to beat him up as a form of retaliation. Let’s not forget that these guys were probably as poorly trained as it is reported. The just wanted to beat him up and give him a ‘lesson’.
Now the armed assumption Turley nor anyone else has no evidence that he was in this video. It does not change the fact that he was still legal being armed at a protest.
georgie digs himself in deeper and deeper.
Like a-tick on a dogs nuts!
he needs a backhoe. LOL
You didn’t answer the question: What were your MOS, Awards, Campaigns, and Theater?
In the shuffling madness of a hostile, violent, threatening crowd, a phone is easily perceived as a gun, if you are the one being threatened.
Your obsession with blaming Trump for every thing causes you to misinterpret every thing. Your love of hate spreads the fires of rage which lead to these kinds of situations, which is exactly what you live for. Your life is hating; violently pushing your love of destruction.
You have nothing
IOW, these screaming fools approved of the murders of
Jocelyn Nungaray (12, Texas): Two Venezuelan men in the country illegally were arrested and charged with capital murder in June 2024,
Laken Riley (22, Georgia): A nursing student who was killed in February 2024 while jogging. A Venezuelan man who entered the U.S. illegally was charged with her murder.
Rachel Morin (37, Maryland): A mother of five was found murdered in August 2023. In June 2024, a suspect from El Salvador, who was in the country illegally, was arrested.
Larisha Thompson (South Carolina): Six undocumented immigrants were charged in connection with a robbery-turned-murder in June 2025.
Dr. Turley how can you be surprised he wasn’t immediately arrested? ICE/border patrol/the feds are not there to enforce local law and order. The local police are supposed to be doing that. Also, there was a violent mob. Wake up professor, it is later than you think!
. If ICE had called police they wouldn’t have responded. If a bystander had called, the same inaction? Most likely.
The worm Walz has turned.
Turley: why do you write stuff like this? Oh, I know–it’s part of the MAGA messenging agenda you are paid to participate in. Assuming the person in the video was Pretti, spitting on a car and damaging a taillight are NOT felonies, and you know it–at best they are something in the nature of misdemeanor vandalism—so why do you exaggerate? Oh, I know–it’s part of the MAGA messenging agenda. Pretti was passionately defending the city he loves, so Turley waxes about how outrageous it was that Pretti spit on a car and kicked a taillight—what about the Trump army of thugs who did millions of damage to the Capitol building and beat up Capitol police? Do you really think you have any credibility when you defend what the J6 losers did and that Trump pardoned them and then go after a VA nurse who devoted his life to caring for others? Even Republicans know Pretti’s murder was just plain wrong. Pretti was angry over what ICE has done to his city–his anger is understandably righteous, which is not to say it was OK to kick out a taillight and spit on a car. Turley wrote today’s little piece of whatever as part of the MAGA theme–see what thugs “the Left” are. It stinks.
And, Turley just HAD to accuse the Pretti family of lying, instead of addressing the REAL liars–ICE Barbie, Trump, Vance, et al., who falsely accused Pretti of brandishing a weapon and being a “domestic terrorist”. Trump wants to use the power he cheated to get to intimidate the citizens of Minneapolis with his jack-booted army of loser cowards with guns, but the protesters are winning.* They are fighting for their city–and protesters always win–whether it was those who demonstrated for the civil rights of blacks, those who protested the Viet Nam war –in time, the protesters always win and they will win this battle, too, but not until after people get killed and a lot of money is spent. And–for what? WHERE are the violent criminals that ICE is supposed to be rounding up? ICE Is in Minneapolis because Minnesota is the state where Tim Walz is governor, and he ran against Trump. Minnesota ranks 28th in the number of undocumented migrants–so why are thousands of these thugs sent there? Why isn’t ICE raiding meatpacking plants, large agri-business outfits, hotels and restaurant chains? Because they get a pass because they donate to Trump and because they can’t stay in business without migrant labor. Milwaukee is under seige because of Trump and his fragile ego. He’s going to show them who’s boss–but what he is really showing the world is just how tiny a person he really is, how he cannot stand to lose, and that retribution is his main agenda.
Meanwhile, in REAL legal news, Trump has ordered the confiscation of Fulton County ballots, tabulation tapes, tabulation equipment, envelopes, absentee ballots, mail ballots and voter rolls, and the pre-determined outcome was announced when he was in Davos–the election was stolen, and people will be charged criminally. He had the arrogance to claim that “everyone” knows this. Those ballots were counted not less than 4 times, by Republicans in Georgia, and the result was the same each time–Trump lost. But, he has to re-write history, so if you want to talk about something “everyone knows”, it will be that the materials taken in Fulton County will be altered and/or destroyed–because King Donald has so commanded, so he can claim he “won”. All of this is, of course, a precursor to the midterms, which Trump knows Republicans will lose, so he’s trying to pre-rig the election.
*citing the monologue of Lawrence O’Donnell–thank you!
commie got himself all worked up.
it’s ‘smelly slop’ gigi again.
LOL
counted not less than 4 times, by Republicans in Georgia,
Honey, that is so not new. Move on.
Poor timmy
Tim Walz says he’ll never seek elected office again
The Minnesota governor unexpectedly announced this month that he wouldn’t run for re-election.
Yeah like a snow-ball chance.
Plus all that fraud knocking on your back door.
That wasn’t fraud, it’s bath house Barry looking for excitement.
“Allegedly?” “Purportedly?” Seriously, Professor? Words carry meanings. What, exactly, is obscure about the new video? It appears, at minimum, to depict an enraged anti-ICE Alex Pretti with a mindset brimming with fury and a propensity for directing that anger at ICE personnel trying to clean up the mess created by Robinette the Marionette, Tampon Timmy Walz, Somaliapolis mayor Frey and the lunatic policies of “sanctuary” cities.
And, BTW, has anyone answered the question of whether the rounds loaded in the two magazines the Border Patrol recovered with Pretti’s 9mm Sig Sauer at the scene of his demise were “normal” bullets … or instead, “hollow-point” rounds? His demeanor in the new video suggests the latter might possibly be the case.
As Charlie Kirk might have challenged: “Prove me wrong.”
From what I read. ICE had to leave the area because so many protestors had taken over the area.