"Despite the stories the federal government is telling, video evidence shows neither victim was a threat to the agents at the time they were shot. Good was shot at least three times while driving away from ICE agent Jonathan Ross, and Pretti had already been beaten to the ground for helping a woman who had been shoved by an agent when he was shot 10 times. Officials claim he was holding a gun. Videos show he was not."
"Trans writer, podcaster, and activist Margaret Killjoy - who recently traveled to Minneapolis to report from the ground - wrote last week on Bluesky that in her 24 years involved in protest movements, she has "never seen anything approaching this scale." "Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here," she went on. "ICE f**king murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.""
ICE agents shot and killed two Minneapolis residents, Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA ICU nurse, and Renee Nicole Good, a queer wife and mother. Video evidence indicates neither posed a threat when shot: Good was shot multiple times while driving away, and Pretti was beaten to the ground before being shot ten times; officials' claims that Pretti held a gun are contradicted by videos. Administration officials label the victims "paid agitators" and show no sign of reducing ICE presence. Minneapolis residents have organized large, multi-community street protests and effective protest networks in response.
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