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VIDEO: Trump's ICE Gestapo Executed 37 Year Old American VA Employee Alex Pretti in Minneapolis Today. Here's Proof.
"Are You OK" were Alex's last words as he was shot in the back of the head 6 times, kneeling, hands up, after trying to help a woman being beaten by ICE.
January 24, 2025
“Are You OK?”
That was the last thing Alex Pretti said, not as a protest slogan or a political statement but as a nurse, as a human being, as an American who still believed that if you see someone being beaten in the street by Trump’s faceless, nameless, ICE Gestapo, you are allowed to ask if they are okay.
Alex Pretti was a VA nurse in Minneapolis, a caregiver to veterans, a man whose entire professional life was built around empathy, restraint, and service.
He woke up on the morning of the General Strike not to fight anyone but to stand with his community after the killing of Renée Nicole Good, another unarmed civilian whose death at the hands of ICE had already turned Minneapolis into a city holding its breath.
He showed up because he believed the First Amendment still meant something, that peaceful protest was still a protected right, that filming state violence was still legal, and that helping someone in distress was still allowed in America.
He was wrong. And now he’s dead. Trump’s ICE mercenaries shot him several times. In the back of the head. With his hands up. While kneeling. After trying to help another woman being beaten by the same people who took his life. Trump’s personal mercenary squad shit Alex SIX TIMES IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD, WHILE HE WAS ON HIS KNEES AFTER THEY PISTOL WHIPPED, BEAT, AND PEPPER SPRAYED HIM.
The Crime? Asking a woman being beaten by the Federal Gestapo if she was “O.K.”
Who did this?
Trump’s ICE Gestapo.
Not the radical left. Not ANTIFA. Not local police. ICE executed Alex Pretti, and they answer to one man.
Donald J Trump.
Alex Pretti was unarmed. He was beaten. He was pistol-whipped. He was pepper-sprayed. He was forced to the ground. Witnesses and video show him kneeling, hands raised, phone in hand, no weapon visible, no brandishing, no threat posed, no resistance underway. And then, while on his knees, Alex Pretti was shot multiple times in the back of the head and back by more than one ICE officer.
This was not a chaotic encounter. This was not a misunderstanding. This was not split-second confusion. This was an execution carried out in public, on camera, by agents of the United States government operating under the Trump administration.
Change my mind with this POV of Alex’s Murder from start to finish. I dare you:
What happened next is as important as the killing itself. The Trump administration did not pause. It did not express doubt. It did not call for restraint or transparency. It did not treat the death of an unarmed nurse as a national emergency. After disarming him, even though he never threatened anyone with his concealed weapon,
he had a license to carry. Moments AFTER an ICE prick took it, they shot Alex in the back of the head.
10 times.
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The Trump Regime did exactly what authoritarian governments always do: it lied aggressively, dehumanized the victim, praised the killers, and dared the public to believe propaganda over their own eyes. Alex Pretti was immediately branded a dangerous extremist, a domestic terrorist, a threat who forced ICE to defend itself. The same administration that cannot stop mass shootings somehow asks Americans to believe that a kneeling nurse with a phone in his hand required execution to restore order.
This is not about immigration enforcement. This is not about border security. This is not about law and order. This is about power. This is about intimidation. This is about a federal police force that has been deliberately untethered from accountability and unleashed inside American cities to crush dissent, provoke fear, and normalize state violence against civilians. ICE under Trump is no longer functioning as a civil agency. It is functioning as a paramilitary arm of an authoritarian project, shielded from oversight, encouraged to escalate, and publicly celebrated when it kills.
Renée Nicole Good was supposed to be a warning. Instead, she became a rehearsal. Alex Pretti is the proof of concept. Minneapolis is not an exception. It is a testing ground. What we are witnessing is the systematic erosion of civil liberties, the criminalization of protest, the transformation of bystanders into suspects, and the deliberate reframing of empathy as extremism. When helping someone being beaten gets you executed, the message is not subtle. It is meant to be understood clearly: do not show up, do not film, do not intervene, do not ask questions, do not help, do not resist, do not even care.
The most dangerous part of this moment is not just what ICE did to Alex Pretti. It is how quickly parts of the country are being trained to accept it. People are already saying he should have stayed home, that protests are dangerous now, that it was the wrong place at the wrong time. That is how authoritarian violence becomes normalized, not through mass agreement but through quiet resignation. When Americans are taught that exercising their constitutional rights is reckless, that witnessing injustice is optional, that empathy is a liability, democracy doesn’t collapse in one dramatic moment. It bleeds out in full view.
Alex Pretti did what nurses do. He cared. He noticed suffering. He was a VA Nurse who felt honour-bound in his duty to serve America and its Vets.
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He asked a simple question that should never be fatal in a free country. “Are you OK?” That question is now hanging over America like an indictment. Because if the answer to that question, in this country, in this moment, is a hail of bullets from federal agents protected by presidential propaganda, then the truth is unavoidable. We are not OK. Not the protesters. Not the witnesses now being hunted. Not the journalists being gaslit. Not the Americans telling themselves this will never reach them.
This is what the Trump administration looks like when it stops pretending. This is what ICE looks like when it is told there will be no consequences. This is what happens when power decides it no longer needs consent. And unless people are willing to confront that reality now, unless they are willing to say out loud that the execution of an unarmed nurse kneeling in the street is unacceptable, unless they are willing to believe their own eyes over state lies, Alex Pretti will not be the last name we learn this way.
“Are you OK?” should never be a dying question. But in America, under this administration, it has become one.
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