Alex Pretti’s ICE murder is beyond politics. This is about good vs. evil

Trump's inhumane immigration raids and two ICE murders has triggered an American yearning for a return to morality.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Robert F. Worth
Robert F. Worth describes what caused Minneapolis documentary filmmaker Chad Knutson, who wasn't previously an activist, to join the protests:

"On the morning after Good was killed, [documentary filmmaker Chad Knutson] was at home with his two hound dogs, watching a live feed from the Whipple Building, where ICE is based, a five-minute drive from his house."

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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/minneapolis-uprising/685755/?gift=8DuZT5mBYqmK1I4zfwIFq_jo6b7DrQ-VCEmjDqkdw74&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

The Minneapolis Uprising

In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.

The Atlantic

"A protester had laid a rose on a makeshift memorial to Good. As Knutson watched, an ICE agent took the rose, put it in his lapel, and then mockingly gave it to a female ICE agent. They both laughed.

Knutson told me he had never been a protester. It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt. But when he saw those ICE agents laughing, something broke inside him."

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"One of the striking developments about the extremism of Trumpian violence, lying, and abuse of power is its recruitment power – but for the opposition. A lot of mild-mannered moderates are now ferociously against ICE, the attack on immigrants, and in some cases the whole Trump Administration."

Rebecca Solnit

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https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/this-cold-winter-love-is-a-superpower/?ref=meditations-in-an-emergency-newsletter

This Cold Winter, Love Is a Superpower

There are great days and terrible days in history, days a nation or world changed, that you remember forever. For me that's the fall of the Berlin Wall, the rise of the Zapatistas, 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, the days of Occupy and BLM, and it's Friday in Minneapolis, when the

Meditations in an Emergency

:Pretti was holding a phone, filming masked men who were terrorizing people on his city’s streets. We know this because other courageous neighbors were doing the same thing. One of them captured the celebratory clapping of agents that began as the ten shots that killed Pretti were still being fired."

~ William J. Barber II and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

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https://ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/a-man-was-lynched-yesterday

A Man Was Lynched Yesterday

Alex Pretti was killed by people who celebrated his death. They do not need better training. They demand a moral movement to disarm them and reconstruct democracy.

Our Moral Moment w/ Bishop William Barber & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

"Ross leaned into the car to shoot [Renee Good] at close range through the windshield, not something you would do if you thought a car was about to run you over. He then shot her twice more through the side window as the car rolled by in front of him, one of those shots being fatal."

~ Paul Krugman

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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/was-this-a-murder-too-far

Was This a Murder Too Far?

The execution of Alex Pretti has made even some MAGA loyalists waver

Paul Krugman

@wdlindsy

"They did not believe.

Until the soil was a stain of blood.

And the ground a flood of tears."
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