By Grand Rapids Anonymous
monday, January 26, 2026 at 4:15:00 p.m. est
“(Jonathan Turley) there remain legitimate questions about this shooting. the videotapes do not show, as suggested in early accounts from the federal government, that Pretti approached the officers brandishing a weapon.
“Pretti does not obey the commands of the officers in returning to the middle of the road during their operation. however, he did not appear threatening until after the officer pushed him to the side of the road. at one point, he appears to shove the officer as he tries to assist a woman who was pushed to the ground.
“what happens next is hard to determine. there is a video that suggests that an officer may have removed his weapon from its holster just before another officer yells “gun.” it is hard to see Pretti’s hands and we do not know what happened in that split second. we may get a better idea as new videotapes emerge.
“law enforcement officers do not expect blind deference on shootings. However, they have a right to expect a fair chance for an investigation to hear their side of a shooting — not a governor or a mayor rushing before cameras to effectively accuse them of murder.
“at this point, it may not matter. only the mob matters. minneapolis [chief of police] Brian O’Hara explained: 'even if there is an investigation that ultimately proves that at the time of the shooting it was legally justified, I don’t think that even matters at this point, because there just- there is so much outrage and concern around what is happening in the city.'”
GRA: Sounds like a fair analysis.
--GRA
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COURT OF APPEALS RULES ICE CAN DEFEND THEMSELVES FROM RIOTERS
IN MINNEAPOLIS--W I T H O U T PROBABLE CAUSE
(Jonathan Turley)In a significant victory for the Trump Administration, a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit lifted the injunction of U.S. District Judge Katherin Menendez, who prevented officers from arresting, detaining, pepper-spraying or retaliating against protesters in Minneapolis without probable cause.
In her Jan. 16 decision, Judge Menendez (a Biden appointee and former public defender) ruled in favor of the protesters suing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and ICE. She found the plaintiffs were likely to succeed on claims that federal agents violated their First and Fourth Amendment rights.
The Eighth Circuit first flagged how Menendez ignored the fact that the record shows a wide range of conduct raising different conditions for law enforcement:
“We accessed and viewed the same videos the district court did. … What they show is observers and protestors engaging in a wide range of conduct, some of it peaceful but much of it not. They also show federal agents responding in various ways. Even the named plaintiffs’ claims involve different conduct, by different officers, at different times, in different places, in response to different behavior. These differences mean that there are no “questions of law or fact common to the class,” Fed. R. Civ. P. 23(a)(2), that would allow the court to decide all their claims in “one stroke.”
The panel also found Judge Menendez’s order unacceptably vague.
GRA:I'm an amateur legal expert,but wouldn't this encompass the Pretti shooting as well?
Basically,how I interpret it,if you go to an area ICE is conducting business and interfere,anything can be done by the Feds to make sure ICE is able to complete its job.
--GRA
BEST COMMENT I'VE SEEN I DIDN'T THINK OF
"Lamentably, if democrat Alex Pretti had been stabbed in the neck or set on fire while riding a train by a democrat black career criminal, democrats wouldn't have given him a second thought."
GRA:Also,all I hear from dems now is the right to carry a weapon. Quite an about face after various shootings in schools or churches. In other words,dems only want dems to have the freedom to shoot or stab.
--GRA
NEW VIDEO OF ALEX PRETTI SHOWS HIS TRUE PERSONALITY--NUTS
Clay Travis
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So the “hero nurse” was actually a crazy psycho spitting on ICE agents and attacking their vehicle. Guy should have been charged for this. Might still be alive if he had been. He was looking for trouble for weeks.
Mary Margaret Olohan
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The Minnesota Star Tribune confirmed with Alex Pretti's family that the man in this video is indeed Alex Pretti.
Filmed by @thenewsmovement on January 13, two weeks before Pretti was shot by ICE:
GRA:He DID have a gun then too,which I wondered about. Still a wackjob. A matter of time before he used it.
--GRA
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