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On January 24, 2026, federal Border Patrol agents shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti during an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis, an incident that has shattered a community already on edge. The facts of the shooting are now public enough to demand clarity: it happened near Nicollet Avenue at about 9:05 a.m., and it has unleashed a torrent of conflicting narratives from officials, activists, and the media.
Eyewitness video circulated almost immediately and appears to show Pretti holding a phone, not a firearm, as he moved toward a woman who had been pushed by an agent; the footage shows him being pepper-sprayed and pinned before officers opened fire. The Department of Homeland Security, meanwhile, said agents believed he was armed and acted to disarm him — an account that clashes with what many bystanders recorded on their phones.
Pretti wasn’t a stranger to his neighbors — he was an ICU nurse at a VA hospital, a legal gun owner with a carry permit, and by all public accounts someone without a criminal record who cared for veterans. Those details matter; they are not helpful to anyone who wants the truth to be muddied by ideological spin.
What Greg Kelly and other honest observers rightly flag is how fast the media descended into a predictable script — turning a chaotic, tragic event into a political cudgel before investigators could finish their work. Some outlets have already cast Pretti in saintly terms while others reflexively backed federal officials; both rushes reveal a press that prefers narrative to nuance.
Conservatives believe in law and order and support the men and women who protect our borders, but that principle doesn’t mean blind loyalty when the facts are murky. We should demand the same transparency and accountability we ask of local police for any federal agent: full release of video and radio, independent oversight, and an honest pursuit of truth rather than partisan advantage.
For too long the left has weaponized tragedy to score political points while ignoring how its own rhetoric endangers civil servants and ordinary Americans trying to keep the peace. If Pretti was wrongly killed, those agents must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law; if they were forced into a split-second decision by an armed threat, the record must show it and the public must know why. The country deserves both justice and the facts.
At the end of the day, this is about a grieving family, veterans who trusted a caregiver, and a city that needs less political theater and more honest leadership. Americans of every political stripe should demand a thorough, transparent investigation and refuse to let opportunists on either side of the aisle turn a life-and-death moment into another culture-war weapon.
