What a news cycle this past week has been, beginning with the fatal shooting of activist Alex Pretti which occurred on January 24, 2026. As you might expect the response from the mainstream media was sympathetic with many news outlets defending his actions and proclaiming his innocence. Here are a few examples.
On January 25, 2026 CNBC reported the following under the headline “Videos of Alex Pretti shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis contradict Trump official claims”
“On Saturday, Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse and U.S. citizen, was shot and killed by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis. There’s a wide gap between what Americans have seen of the shooting and what federal officials are telling them.
Soon after the shooting, Department of Homeland Security officials rushed to defend the officers involved, claiming the victim “approached U.S. Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun” and that when federal agents attempted to disarm him, “the suspect violently resisted.”
CNBC claimed to “verify” all available videos from the shooting and concluded that:
“At no point in any of the three videos shown here does Alex Pretti brandish a weapon or appear to threaten federal immigration agents before the confrontation begins, as was claimed by DHS Secretary Noem and others in the Trump administration.
One video also appears to show a federal officer removing a weapon from Pretti while he’s being restrained by agents on the ground before any shots are fired.
Pretti is a lawful gun owner and owns a permit for his weapon.”
So suddenly the Liberal “left” who have spent years trying to implement gun control are suddenly pro-Second Amendment? Got it.
On January 25, 2026, USA Today reported under the headline “Who was Alex Pretti? Man killed by feds remembered as helper of people”, the news outlet many of those closest to Pretti. Among them were his sister:
“Micayla Pretti said in the statement that it was a “privilege” to be his sibling and said he “had a way of lighting up every room he walked into.”
“Through his work at the VA caring for the sickest patients, and passion to advance cancer research, he touched more lives than he probably ever realized,” she wrote. “My brother is, and always will be, my hero.”
In this CBS video that shows the shooting of Alex Pretti, the narrator describes him as an “observer”.
Celebrities, influencers actors and reporters made Alex Pretti the latest martyr in their fight against the Trump administration’s effort to deport violent illegal immigrants but as soon as the “left” uplifted Pretti a problem soon developed, another video emerged of Pretti embroiled in a previous confrontation with ICE agents.
In the video, posted on January 27, 2026, by the 0Hour1 account, Alex Pretti can be seen in a confrontation with ICE weeks before he was shot. Pretti can be seen spitting on ICE agents, exclaiming “Assault me mother f*cker” and kicking the taillights out of an ICE vehicle.
As you might have noticed, this created a problem for the “left”, after all they had spent almost an entire week creating the narrative that Alex Pretti was a peaceful, caring “hero”.
What was their response to the damning new evidence? It was about what you would expect. Most were similar to what Keith Edwards posted on his X account on January 28th.
It doesn’t matter how much damaging evidence comes out blowing the left’s narrative of Alex Pretti out of the water, the “left” will just say “So what?”.
It also doesn’t matter because as of the time this story is published former CNN reporter Don Lemon was arrested for his part in the recent invasion of a Minnesota church.
And just like that, the “left” forgets about their “martyr” Alex Pretti.
Literally all of the liberal influencers that were advocating for justice for Alex Pretti yesterday have abandoned him for the new cause of the very much alive Don Lemon today and in doing so it reveals their hypocrisy for despite their faux, steadfast dedication to “inclusivity” it certainly appears that Liberal-Gay-Black-Alive trumps Liberal-White-Dead.
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