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NickB79

(20,278 posts)
Sat Jan 24, 2026, 03:23 PM Jan 24

His name was Alex Pretti

Last edited Sat Jan 24, 2026, 07:22 PM - Edit history (1)

A young man working as an ICU nurse in Minneapolis, and had worked for the VA, serving our veterans.

He devoted his life to saving others. He wasn't a deranged leftist lunatic.

He was executed today.

RiP.

Update: a good friend of mine from college posted on Facebook that he was friends with him at the U of MN when he was doing grad work in the labs. Other friends of his also started chiming in. Confirmed what everyone is saying: he was a wonderful, kind man.

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His name was Alex Pretti (Original Post) NickB79 Jan 24 OP
The fact that relatively powerless citizens are showing more courage senseandsensibility Jan 24 #1
Unfortunately it's always been that way. JMCKUSICK Jan 24 #12
The bastards will say it's payback for terrorist BidenRocks Jan 24 #25
K and R Quixote1818 Jan 24 #2
DURec leftstreet Jan 24 #3
News article about him with photo Quixote1818 Jan 24 #4
Murdered by Trump's terrorists in cold blood. dalton99a Jan 24 #5
LINK? ancianita Jan 24 #6
Here you go NickB79 Jan 24 #9
Alex Pretti, Renee Good mr715 Jan 24 #7
Another day in America PatSeg Jan 24 #8
... littlemissmartypants Jan 24 #10
They shot a nurse in front of a donut shop for trying to help a lady. Maru Kitteh Jan 24 #11
Murdered niyad Jan 24 #15
tragic... makes me cry LymphocyteLover Jan 24 #13
May all involved receive everything they deserve. niyad Jan 24 #14
Why would he rest in peace when he was murdered, snuffed out at a young age Beringia Jan 24 #16
Alex Pretti, Renee Good Avalon Sparks Jan 24 #17
Neither of them were illegal immigrants FakeNoose Jan 24 #22
It makes me wonder if one or more ICE agents were looking to kill someone. markodochartaigh Jan 24 #18
I think they signed bamagal62 Jan 24 #28
Murdering bastards MustLoveBeagles Jan 24 #19
I'm getting real tired LPBBEAR Jan 24 #20
I just want to add that even if a person has antifascist neck tattoos Prairie Gates Jan 24 #21
this WhiskeyGrinder Jan 24 #26
On Alex Pretti's character: Stargleamer Jan 24 #23
😔 A serious loss electric_blue68 Jan 24 #29
his name is Alex Pretti. barbtries Jan 24 #24
Renee Good & Alex Pretti SheltieLover Jan 24 #27

senseandsensibility

(24,401 posts)
1. The fact that relatively powerless citizens are showing more courage
Sat Jan 24, 2026, 03:25 PM
Jan 24

than our elected officials or the elite of this country and being killed for it is gut wrenching.

JMCKUSICK

(5,508 posts)
12. Unfortunately it's always been that way.
Sat Jan 24, 2026, 04:08 PM
Jan 24

For all those rwnj's spewing shedding blood at the altar of freedom and so on, we have the first two sacrifices are named Renee Good and Alex Pretti

BidenRocks

(2,940 posts)
25. The bastards will say it's payback for terrorist
Sat Jan 24, 2026, 06:21 PM
Jan 24

Ashley Babbitt.
Don't even think it!

Location is everything. I am in Ca. but in Minnesota it could have been me!
I have No fucks left to give!
Only my life.
ICE OUT!!

NickB79

(20,278 posts)
9. Here you go
Sat Jan 24, 2026, 03:59 PM
Jan 24
https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/what-we-know-about-alex-pretti-the-man-killed-by-federal-agents-in-minneapolis

Dr. Dimitri Drekonja, the chief of infectious diseases at the Minneapolis VA and a professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota, confirmed on social media that he worked with Pretti at the VA.

"Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I [loved] working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these f****** executed him. White. Hot. Rage," Drekonja wrote.

Avalon Sparks

(2,746 posts)
17. Alex Pretti, Renee Good
Sat Jan 24, 2026, 04:34 PM
Jan 24

This world is a vastly worse off place without them.

Executed in cold blood by the worst of humanity.

I have to keep believing there will be justice, there just has to be. Karma please do your job!



FakeNoose

(40,704 posts)
22. Neither of them were illegal immigrants
Sat Jan 24, 2026, 05:19 PM
Jan 24

ICE has only one job - to defend our borders against the influx of illegal immigrants. Minneapolis is nowhere near a border.

ICE needs to get out of Minnesota and go to Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and apprehend illegally entering immigrants. If they can't do their jobs they need to be fired. How many federal employees have lost their jobs in the last 12 months, and none committed murder? But these ICE guys are getting overpaid, and given carte blanche, and then they're sent where they don't belong.

markodochartaigh

(5,230 posts)
18. It makes me wonder if one or more ICE agents were looking to kill someone.
Sat Jan 24, 2026, 04:52 PM
Jan 24

When Alex Pretti bent over to help the lady an agent saw his gun and decided that this was the person who they could kill and most easily get away with it.

Prairie Gates

(7,543 posts)
21. I just want to add that even if a person has antifascist neck tattoos
Sat Jan 24, 2026, 05:17 PM
Jan 24

and has spent their whole adult life in activist collectives (none of this is true of Mr. Pretti), the federal government still doesn't get to shoot them down in the street.

Mr. Pretti sounds like a wonderful person who was living an admirable life. But there is no "standard" below which one deserves to be killed arbitrarily by the state.

Stargleamer

(2,670 posts)
23. On Alex Pretti's character:
Sat Jan 24, 2026, 05:50 PM
Jan 24

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

Brandy Zadrozny (@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social) 2026-01-24T21:41:16.181Z
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