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Jan 26, 2026
“I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front of me, and I don’t feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don’t know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they’re not telling the truth about what happened.”
Read those words again.
“I feel afraid… I don’t feel like I can go home… they’re not telling the truth.”
These are the words of the woman in the pink jacket. Yesterday, she stood feet away as ICE agents assaulted, then murdered, Alex Pretti.
She’s afraid. She may be in hiding.
Hers is not the lone voice of truth shouting in the darkness. In the file that contained her testimony about yesterday’s events are dozens of others, dating back to December 17, 2025. They are a part of a lawsuit, Tincher v. Noem, challenging ICE violence and misconduct towards Minnesotans.
They recount stories of cruelty, abuse of power, and terror. In their own words, people describe being yanked from their cars, cuffed, threatened, and shoved. Vehicles are weaponized. Guns are brandished. One shares the words an ICE agent spoke to them: “You don’t look like you could be more than 18 years old. Is this how you want to die? With a fucking bullet in your skull?”
In another, a bystander tells of a pregnant woman being harmed. “Suddenly, the agent kneeling on the woman’s back decided to drag her by the hand to his car.”
Yesterday, a physician described their interaction with ICE at the scene of Alex Pretti’s murder. They offered to render aid to him as he lay on the street. They wrote, “At first, the ICE agents wouldn’t let me through… none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR.”
Instead of letting them through, the healthcare professional alleges that agents repeatedly demanded their physician’s license. When at last they were permitted to approach him, they asked whether he had a pulse. The agents didn’t know. Rather than perform CPR or check for signs of life, ICE appeared to count the bullet holes.
The words of this physician mirror the care, or lack thereof, given to Renee Good. A video shot from the house directly next to the site of the crash tells a story of neglect. In it, you can catch a glimpse of Renee. The wound to her head is visible. There is no dressing, no attempt to stop the bleeding. While a physician begs to treat her, Renee sits alone, unattended, for over two minutes. Two minutes without potentially lifesaving care. While a swarm of agents barricade a doctor, she sat alone.
If this is not neglect, what is?
After reading through a few dozen affidavits, patterns emerge. Several witnesses wrote that ICE appeared to be “egging the crowd on.” They spoke of threats, verbal and physical. Guns drawn in the absence of hostility—used as a tactic to instill compliance. Physical aggression toward observers was common.
The rhetoric is that the protesters are violent. The record dissents. Standing isn’t assault. Filming isn’t a threat. Defiance is not harm. The people are not the violent ones.
However… shoving is assault.
A barrel of a weapon aimed at bodes is a threat.
Bruising from cuffs is harm.
They claim they are there to protect. They don’t. They pretend to deliver safety. Since when did safety look like abuse?
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” George Orwell wrote these words in his novel 1984. It ought to have been titled 2026.
Silence is compliance. We must listen. We must watch. We must read. We must speak.
Noise is dissent. It’s time to get loud. Get loud at home, at protests, at council meetings, at work. Get loud everywhere.
