If This New Footage Is Confirmed, Then the Lib Media’s Narrative on Alex Pretti Is Totally Cooked

If this video is confirmed, it’s quite the kill shot for the liberal media narrative that’s been forming around the shooting of Alex Pretti, who was shot and killed by Border Patrol agents on January 24 after intervening, stupidly, in a federal law enforcement operation in Minneapolis. It has set the city aflame again, the incident occurring a little more than two weeks after the death of Renee Good, who was shot and killed after ramming her car into an ICE agent. 

Pretti had broken ribs from a previous encounter with federal law enforcement and was a participant on an anti-ICE Signal chat that heavily coordinated actions to interfere with federal law enforcement. The footage released by the BBC shows someone who, with a 97 percent probability, looks like Mr. Pretti, using facial recognition technology. He’s shown spitting and attacking vehicles carrying federal agents in an altercation that occured on January 13:

MUST WATCH: Footage of an a man who looks like Alex Pretti with a gun in his waistband, spitting on and attacking federal law enforcement officers and kicking the tail light of their vehicle on January 13.

Bombshell report from the BBC.

Important context: Pretti was not a… pic.twitter.com/snzEO8rU8w

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) January 28, 2026

#BREAKING: New footage shows Alex Pretti attacking federal agents in Minneapolis, on Jan 13th. pic.twitter.com/DUblvEB7qg

— Insider Wire (@InsiderWire) January 28, 2026

Is this Alex? I think the likelihood that it is Pretti good. He was a left-wing activist who knew what he was getting himself into, not some Mother Theresa nurse who happened to be just a protester or legal observer. We know he was actually unemployed at the time of his death.  

These people are unhinged, and Mr. Pretti died because of his own reckless actions. 

UPDATE:

Homeland Security Investigations is investigating the footage:

BREAKING: DHS confirms to @FoxNews they are aware of this video & HSI is investigating it. https://t.co/KcYKWRt7i6

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) January 28, 2026

#BREAKING: Elizabeth Warren says Alex Pretti ‘was peaceful & not violent.’ https://t.co/mKIPMRPUpw

— Insider Wire (@InsiderWire) January 28, 2026

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