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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Jan 24, 2026, 10:13 PM 23 hrs ago

A Citizen Murdered for Caring

Dina Doll

Today, in Minneapolis, Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old man, was murdered on the street for trying to help a woman stand up after she was pushed by ICE agents and slipped on an icy sidewalk. A precious life was treated with shocking carelessness by federal agents who seemed to believe they were acting out a role in a mafia-style movie, continuing to fire bullets into his body even after he was lifeless on the ground.

The entire interaction, from the moment Alex Pretti was seen calmly and quietly filming ICE to the moment he was dead, was about sixty seconds.

Sixty seconds.

In sixty seconds, he was pushed. In sixty seconds, he was pepper sprayed. In sixty seconds, he was yanked, forced to the ground, and killed. In sixty seconds, agents of the federal government decided that trying to help someone up warranted an execution.

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/a-citizen-murdered-for-caring

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A Citizen Murdered for Caring (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 23 hrs ago OP
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