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What is it with Minneapolis and making awful people doing stupid things into martyrs? Or, for that matter, the establishment media trying desperately to convince us that up is down? From ‘hands up, don’t shoot’, to ‘killed while jogging’ to ‘Maryland dad’, the media-left, time and again, peddle the most outrageous whoppers and scream abuse at the rest of us for not believing as fervently as they do.
The violent insurrection in Minnesota is yet another case in point. Alex Pretti wasn’t ‘murdered’, any more than he was as handsome as MSNBC’s ludicrous AI photo would have us believe. Nor was he ‘killed while protesting’.
This is a common description of what he was doing on a Minneapolis street Saturday, when a confrontation with federal immigration agents ended in his tragic shooting.
If Pretti had been a mere protester, he’d very likely be alive today.
Now that we’ve seen videos of an earlier struggle with federal agents and learned more about the organized nature of the anti-ICE resistance, it’s become clear that the better word for Pretti was agitator, or perhaps even operative.
Insurgent is the word you’re looking for.
What is happening in Minneapolis is not ‘protesting’, any more than rioters burning down cities was ‘mostly peaceful’. Nor was Pretti ‘helping up a woman’, any more than Al Capone was handing sweets to children.
Run-of-the-mill protesters don’t seek out federal agents and harass and obstruct them.
They don’t follow and block their vehicles.
And they don’t establish a robust communications network to deploy resources and create maximum disruption of law enforcement operations.
And this, it needs to be re-stated until it sinks in, is a felony offence and was one of at least three potential felony offences Pretti committed on the day he won his Darwin Award.
Pretti was part of this effort, which is more a form of low-level and (by and large) nonviolent insurgency than conventional protest.
In his first confrontation with federal agents, 11 days before his death, Pretti was every bit an anti-ICE street brawler.
He challenged, at close quarters, an agent to assault him, while screaming insults at him.
He spat on a federal vehicle and kicked out its taillight.
If Pretti was an “observer,” in the euphemism preferred by anti-ICE politicians and activists, he was observing how much unhinged behavior he could get away with.
Unfortunately, ICE agents let him get away with too much, which only encouraged him instead of teaching him a lesson that might have saved his life.
There’s no doubt that at this event, he was the violent instigator.
After Pretti damaged the vehicle, agents got out and pushed him to the ground.
For all the talk of ICE being the equivalent of the Gestapo, they didn’t even bother to arrest him, despite his having committed a crime.
If he’d been arrested and charged, Pretti might never have shown up at the other ICE operation and might still be with us today.
Like most of his generation, though, Pretti was clearly never smacked as a child and consequently never learned that actions have consequences.
Most especially that, if you’re carrying a loaded firearm, even a fully legal one, and you get into a fight with coppers, it’s going to end very badly for you.
That Pretti, we now know, made it a practice to court violent encounters with federal agents while armed was incredibly irresponsible.
He was fortunate that the first struggle didn’t escalate into something much more hazardous to him, and to others, if an agent had noticed his gun.
The firearm wouldn’t have been an issue in the second incident, meanwhile, if he’d really been protesting.
If that were the case, he would have stayed on the sidewalk and held up a sign, or chanted ‘ICE go home’ – and the officers might have been annoyed, but there never would have been an interaction to potentially go so catastrophically wrong.
The calculation in Minneapolis, though, has been that this kind of benign activity is less effective than direct action.
It’s in fact straight out of the Pallywood playbook: stage a violent confrontation, provoke a response, film it all and hand selectively edited footage to a salivating media. If you can get a ‘martyr’ out of it, bonus.
This is the death-cult mentality we’re dealing with.
