Alex Pretti Was a Good Man at a Time of Great Evil

"Pretti was trying to help a woman whom federal agents shoved violently to the ground. A fellow ICE observer, the woman flew a few feet through the air and landed hard; it had to hurt. "Are you OK?" Pretti asked her, according to bystanders. Those were his last known words. He kept trying to help the woman, and the agents kept trying to stop him, finally shooting him in the head at close range, execution-style, and then at least nine more times."

"The last Minnesotan murdered in the federal occupation of Minneapolis, just more than two weeks ago, was Renee Good, a mother, a poet, and a lesbian, whose last words to her murderer, Jonathan Ross, were, "I'm not mad at you, dude," as she smiled at him. According to his own phone video recording, Ross's first words after he shot Good were "Fucking bitch.""

"Much has been written about the misogyny behind the murder of Good, as well as the defamation of her wife, Becca. The Department of Justice is investigating Becca Good, not Ross, for her alleged activist ties. Renee seemed to die for the crime of being a happy lesbian with a spunky wife who was confronting ICE, respectfully, and with humor. In Becca's last words before her wife's murder, she told Ross to take a lunch break."

Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse at a Veterans Authority hospital, was shot dead by federal agents in Minneapolis after he asked a woman shoved to the ground if she was okay and tried to help her. Agents shot Pretti execution-style in the head and then at least nine more times; witnesses and social-media videos documented the killing. Two weeks earlier, Renee Good, a mother and poet, was fatally shot by Jonathan Ross; her last words were "I'm not mad at you, dude," and Ross's recorded first words were "Fucking bitch." Authorities later characterized Pretti as "brandishing" a weapon and high-level officials used terms including "domestic terrorist."

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