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2026-01-25 Fifth Column

Interesting counter-argument and slow-mo video of Minneapolis shooting

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Posted by Besoeker 2026-01-25 08:01|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1805 views ] Top
File under: Antifa/BLM

1 "...Pretti, a Minnesota resident who was reportedly on the scene as an observer."

A messed up situation, but who goes out to "observe" things at a potential riot scene in the bitter cold?

Posted by DooDahMan 2026-01-25 08:52|| 2026-01-25 08:52|| Front Page Top

2 Gee remember the good old days when Tampon Tim had his police locking citizens down during Covid chasing them off their own porches and back into the house.

Posted by Procopius2k 2026-01-25 09:29|| 2026-01-25 09:29|| Front Page Top

3 deploy a chemical irritant twice on the 37-year-old Pretti, who had gone to help the person pushed

Yeah...that's NOT observing

Posted by Frank G 2026-01-25 10:55|| 2026-01-25 10:55|| Front Page Top

4 I believe the formerly alive Renée Good was also supposed to be an observer. It’s an Antifa thing.

Posted by trailing wife 2026-01-25 11:17|| 2026-01-25 11:17|| Front Page Top

5 Feds were arresting Ecuadorian illegal alien Jose Huerta-Chuma in operation that resulted in Alex Jeffrey Pretti’s death
The accused criminal migrant in the operation that resulted in the shooting death of a Minneapolis anti-ICE protester Saturday has been identified as illegal alien Jose Huerta-Chuma.

Huerta-Chuma, of Ecuador, was arrested by Department of Homeland Security officers on Saturday and apprehended for driving without a license, according to Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino and the Washington Times.

Huerta-Chuma’s criminal record includes charges for domestic assault, disorderly conduct, and driving without a license, federal authorities said.

Posted by Frank G 2026-01-25 11:19|| 2026-01-25 11:19|| Front Page Top

6 It has to be tough for those Federal guys with all the 'opposition' folks screaming, honking and generally being rude and obnoxious all the time.

My nerves would be frayed to begin with, even before I was tasked to take someone down.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2026-01-25 13:12|| 2026-01-25 13:12|| Front Page Top

7 I closed the video when the narrator said "execution". I don't need it. I can get that kind of bias from CBS.

I'm sick of all these communists running around with smart phones and thinking of themselves as important, big-time videographers. Their shaky, grainy, unfocused, ten-second clips would not hold up in any court of law as evidence. They never tell the whole story. They're only good for inflaming the rioters. They don't prove anything except what a bunch of whining brats they are.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2026-01-25 18:04|| 2026-01-25 18:04|| Front Page Top

8 Pretti had a semi hand gun and 50+ bullets. He didn't have his carry license on him. He didn't have ID on him.

Good chance he was there to kill people so it could then be blamed on a MAGA (although if so he should have covered his tracks better as he was on an anti ICE chat group).

Posted by Lord Garth 2026-01-25 18:07|| 2026-01-25 18:07|| Front Page Top

9 he should have covered his tracks better

Sure, Lord Garth, but they thought their chat group was inviolate

They were wrong. We have pros on our side, and amateurs good enough to be pros.

Posted by trailing wife 2026-01-25 20:55|| 2026-01-25 20:55|| Front Page Top

10
The only person responsible for Alex Pretti getting shot.

Posted by NN2N1 2026-01-25 21:50|| 2026-01-25 21:50|| Front Page Top

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