I wonder where Alex Pretti's phone is right now

[EarlG]

He was filming at the time of the shooting -- the phone was still in his hand after he was shot. The video he was filming is going to have captured what he was saying to agents and what they were saying to him. Where is the phone?

Almost immediately after the Renee Good shooting, DHS released video from Jonathan Ross's phone. That phone was evidence in a murder, and there's no way video from the phone would have been released if it wasn't with the express consent of Ross, his lawyer, and DHS. In fact, they released that video because they thought it would help people buy into their (false) version of events.

Obviously DHS has Pretti's phone, because who else would have it? I'd like to see a reporter ask someone from DHS where that phone is now. If the answer is that the phone is part of an investigation and so the video from it can't be released, then they're lying -- either they can't get into the phone, or they've seen the video and it doesn't make them look good. Otherwise, they would have released it already, like they did with Jonathan Ross's video.

[gab13by13]

1. Exactly,

to me, that's the most important piece of evidence. I hope someone close to him can retrieve it in the cloud, if not, we will never see shit from the victim's phone.

His phone can prove or disprove what the feds are saying.

I see no one in positions of power asking to see the phone. Walz, Ellison, Mayor, chief of police, are you asking about the phone?

[KT2000]

2. They were rummaging through is jacket

and pockets. They probably even took his money.

[littlemissmartypants]

5. They also had him on his side trying to count his bullet holes, according to a physician who was allowed on...

The crime scene by ICE after asking several times to assist. This was after he had seen the mob attack Alex from a window above the scene in a nearby building.

[BadgerMom]

8. Twin Cities police should check vending machines

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that resell phones. Reportedly the group of ICE terrorists that abducted the teenage Target employee from his place of work did that with that young man’s phone. They took it from him, dropped it at a phone resale vending machine and pocketed the money they received. If ICE was a professional police organization and not a group of state-sponsored thugs, I’d believe something like that would never happen to an important piece of evidence like Mr. Pretti’s phone. However, with this group-especially if they took his cash-I could believe they would do something as greedy and stupid as that.

[NJCher]

11. what scumbags

In the farthest stretches of my imagination I cannot conceive of anyone being so petty.

[NBachers]

17. "The bodies were dragged out of the gas chambers

and inspected by a dentist, who removed finger rings and gold teeth . . .”

https://remember.org/facts-aft-tri-test.html

[Kid Berwyn]

3. Crucial evidence recorded impartially.

WaPo said many ICE agents are not equipped with body cams. It's no wonder why.

[Irish_Dem]

4. One of the reasons he was killed. He was videotaping the nazis.

[leftstreet]

6. +1

[MichMan]

7. Same with Becca Good's phone

[Jilly_in_VA]

9. Probably in the hands of ICE

who are going through it, trying to find ANYTHING they can use to "prove" he was a terrorist.

[orangecrush]

10. Gone forever

That will never see the light of day.

These are criminals, not law enforcement.

[Gaugamela]

12. The ACLU had an app that would upload video to a server as it was shot, but I believe it's been

discontinued. Its purpose was to record police interactions. We need a more widely available version that everyone can use with this criminal regime.

[mwooldri]

21. I suppose that one can use Facebook or YouTube Live ...

... as these stream the content live to followers and potentially the general public. Stays on Facebook for 30 days, unsure about YouTube.

I'm sure there's something better and more discreet but it seems the older I get and the less I'm exposed to tech the less savvy about tech I get.

[NHvet]

13. Even if they have the phone and it "disappears"

There are multiple of others that have put theirs out there on the web, and once its there, its hard to scrub

[doc03]

14. Unless it clears ICE we will never know. They are checking all his contacts to find a

way to claim he was part of a terrorist group led by Tim Walz and George Soros.

[liberalla]

15. I hope someone (friend, family) has pw info to access his cloud account...

This might be a good idea to arrange before a protest - give your pw to someone, 'just in case'? Change your pw once your home safely so you have your privacy again?

[CANADIANBEAVER69]

22. That's exactly what I was thinking as well...n/t

[D_Master81]

16. That won't see the light of day

The regime and the FBI will never let that get out. Pipe dream to think we will ever know.

[Beartracks]

19. Shoved into the stack of Epstein files.

[CaptainTruth]

18. They are hiding evidence.

[allegorical oracle]

20. Possibly sold at some kiosk for cash. We're dealing with lowlifes, here. If they weren't,

they would've resigned by now and returned the signing bonus.

[Arazi]

23. "Lost". Forever.

In reality I presume it’s going to become an ICE goon “trophy”.

Like the sick psychopaths who keep bits from their victims

[ecstatic]

24. I wondered that too. I really hope Pretti had cloud back up services

and a strong password on his phone. I set Google photos to automatically back up all pictures and video, even when on mobile data. Hopefully Pretti had a similar set up and his family / attorney is gathering that information. Also, they need all camera footage from surrounding businesses.

[ecstatic]

25. Actually I just thought about it - they fired 10 or 12 shots. Maybe some of the

shots were to destroy the phone and other evidence.

[marble falls]

27. I thought I saw his phone get tossed just as he got knocked down. Does ICE think it's invisible?

[marble falls]

26. Not that I've ever completely trusted government, I certainly do not trust it now.

[duckworth969]

28. Being uploaded to Palantir servers