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bigtree

(93,550 posts)
Sat Jan 24, 2026, 04:12 PM 5 hrs ago

Alex Pretti was bashed in the head and pepper sprayed in the face before he was shot. He appeared dazed

...and extremely disoriented in the clip, right before he was shot.

I seriously doubt he had complete control of his mental and physical faculties after he was hit on the head, repeatedly, at full force with what appears to be the butt of an agent's revolver (also reported as a cannister).

He looked like he was barely able to keep himself upright on his knees before he was shot- certainly no danger to anyone since it also appeared they had disarmed him of his holstered gun before they shot him, firing some 11 shots, killing him.

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Alex Pretti was bashed in the head and pepper sprayed in the face before he was shot. He appeared dazed (Original Post) bigtree 5 hrs ago OP
It was cold blooded murder kimbutgar 5 hrs ago #1
Murdered 37 year old reportedly an Intensive Care Nurse Blue Dotty 5 hrs ago #4
Trump will say that nurses are domestic terrorists trying to overthrow the govt. Irish_Dem 5 hrs ago #8
He was dflprincess 3 hrs ago #15
OMG leftstreet 5 hrs ago #2
So sad TommieMommy 5 hrs ago #3
Horrifying, sickening, brutal, hate-filled, deliberate. niyad 5 hrs ago #7
One of those thugs was beating him in the head with Klarkashton 5 hrs ago #5
It was like Rodney King, but with bullets. nt SunSeeker 4 hrs ago #10
Bashed in the head and killed by Second Anendment goons malaise 5 hrs ago #6
K&R Evolve Dammit 3 hrs ago #17
It was an execution, by design dlk 4 hrs ago #9
Another angle..he had both hands on the ground BlueWaveNeverEnd 4 hrs ago #11
That video clip is absolutely damning. sop 4 hrs ago #13
I couldn't see his hands on the ground; but it's the first time I'm seeing the woman w the red backpack who posters... electric_blue68 2 hrs ago #18
This is bdamomma 4 hrs ago #12
I'm thinking it's going to be extremely difficult to not have serious retaliation against ICE at some point - that is NoMoreRepugs 4 hrs ago #14
Disgusting and disgraceful. ICE are secret police fascist death squads. Evolve Dammit 3 hrs ago #16

kimbutgar

(26,949 posts)
1. It was cold blooded murder
Sat Jan 24, 2026, 04:14 PM
5 hrs ago

But we can’t believe what we see with our lying eyes according to American Gestapo.

Blue Dotty

(167 posts)
4. Murdered 37 year old reportedly an Intensive Care Nurse
Sat Jan 24, 2026, 04:21 PM
5 hrs ago

Agendafreetv.com

is reporting Alex Pretti, 37 year old murdered today, was an intensive care nurse.

Irish_Dem

(80,193 posts)
8. Trump will say that nurses are domestic terrorists trying to overthrow the govt.
Sat Jan 24, 2026, 04:46 PM
5 hrs ago

As someone with a mother, aunts, great aunts and young family members
who are nurses and NP's, I am so mad I cannot see straight.

They are the furthest thing from being a danger to others you can imagine.

Klarkashton

(4,891 posts)
5. One of those thugs was beating him in the head with
Sat Jan 24, 2026, 04:22 PM
5 hrs ago

A gas can or a gun butt prior to his murder.

It honest to god it looked like the apes in 2001.

malaise

(293,549 posts)
6. Bashed in the head and killed by Second Anendment goons
Sat Jan 24, 2026, 04:24 PM
5 hrs ago

Who first removed his legal gun.

dlk

(13,143 posts)
9. It was an execution, by design
Sat Jan 24, 2026, 05:10 PM
4 hrs ago

They want us all to be very afraid of their fascist march forward.

sop

(17,710 posts)
13. That video clip is absolutely damning.
Sat Jan 24, 2026, 05:30 PM
4 hrs ago

ICE goons went berserk when he tried to help a woman being brutalized. The last thing he did was try to stop ICE from assaulting an innocent woman. And for that they shot him multiple times. I am so incredibly angry.

electric_blue68

(26,191 posts)
18. I couldn't see his hands on the ground; but it's the first time I'm seeing the woman w the red backpack who posters...
Sat Jan 24, 2026, 07:51 PM
2 hrs ago

said he was trying to help! Couldn't see her in the other vids before.

bdamomma

(69,229 posts)
12. This is
Sat Jan 24, 2026, 05:17 PM
4 hrs ago

a murder of a US citizen by Trump's goons, ABOLISH ICE NOW!!!!!!!

this 37-year-old Male nurse was helping a woman who got tear gassed when the goons sweep in and killed the man. He did not banish this gun and was unarmed by the goons. He had a legal permit to carry a gun. This murder of citizens must stop. Or are only Trump's goons the only ones to carry arms.

NoMoreRepugs

(11,843 posts)
14. I'm thinking it's going to be extremely difficult to not have serious retaliation against ICE at some point - that is
Sat Jan 24, 2026, 05:52 PM
4 hrs ago

obviously the goal of Miller and his Gestapo. It will give him the “justification” to declare martial law and go after EVERYONE.

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