2025-2026 Domestic Leftist Violence Thread

[BDKJMU]

Someone should make his wish come true.

[BDKJMU]

What is a “Hidden Run“.

[Caribbean Hen]

"When we're out there, we have no problem with the public watching what we do, filming what we do, talking to us while we do it, but there is that line, though, when they start to impede and get in situations where, frankly, we don't want them to be, we can't have them to be, kind of in our workspace," he told "Fox & Friends Weekend."

They have no problem being filmed? Was that said with a straight face?

From a safe distance but stay out the way

[Caribbean Hen]

You and I don’t know how many times he was shot.

It sounds to me like he was considered to be armed and dangerous, like they had the goods on this guy and they were watching him close …… and then he got stupid.

If your heroes the idiotic protesters wanna raise tensions, you should send them a note and tell them about their chances of dying are going up considerably

I counted what sounded like 10 shots when I watched the video and I used the qualifier "approximately" to show that I don't know for sure how many times he was shot so your point on that one is moot.

As far as him being "considered to be armed and dangerous, like they had the goods on this guy and they were watching him close" you should follow SG's advice and

... wait for more video to come out instead of making up a narrative ...

And once again your statements coming from a January 6 apologist are

You asked a question

I gave you an answer

You tell me to wait for more video and of course Seattle is correct

[UNI88]

I counted what sounded like 10 shots when I watched the video and I used the qualifier "approximately" to show that I don't know for sure how many times he was shot so your point on that one is moot.

As far as him being "considered to be armed and dangerous, like they had the goods on this guy and they were watching him close" you should follow SG's advice and

And once again your statements coming from a January 6 apologist are

You asked a question

I gave you an answer

You tell me to wait for more video and of course Seattle is correct

You gave an answer but not to the question that was asked.

I didn't tell you to wait for more video, i suggested that you follow SG's "advice".

You say SG is correct, does that mean you're not going to jump to conclusions or does that standard only apply to people you and SG disagree with?

[kalm]

Look at all these liberal punk ass protestors packing heat.

Did any of them try to intervene in a violent ongoing protest and try to fight with the police?

No. And that didn’t happen in Minneapolis either no matter how bad you want it to be.

Using ICE’s rules today, there’d be hundred less J6ers to join it.

[Caribbean Hen]

You asked a question

I gave you an answer

You tell me to wait for more video and of course Seattle is correct

You gave an answer but not to the question that was asked.

I didn't tell you to wait for more video, i suggested that you follow SG's "advice".

You say SG is correct, does that mean you're not going to jump to conclusions or does that standard only apply to people you and SG disagree with?

You ask a lot of questions and when you get the answer, you run away

[SeattleGriz]

He never would have been shot if he didn't put himself in that situation. I'm sorry you can't accept accountability for people putting themselves in bad situations. Ones where people are screaming, using bullhorns, throwing objects, grabbing LE and resisting. You expect a level of discernment that is not humanly possible.

This is like blaming a car driver for hitting a person that ran out in front of them. "How DARE that person not be able to swerve and yield to the pedestrian in that microsecond".

Why are you against following the law?

Which of these things was he guilty of?

Why do you think people get to interfere with law enforcement?

[SeattleGriz]

You and I don’t know how many times he was shot.

It sounds to me like he was considered to be armed and dangerous, like they had the goods on this guy and they were watching him close …… and then he got stupid.

If your heroes the idiotic protesters wanna raise tensions, you should send them a note and tell them about their chances of dying are going up considerably

I counted what sounded like 10 shots when I watched the video and I used the qualifier "approximately" to show that I don't know for sure how many times he was shot so your point on that one is moot.

As far as him being "considered to be armed and dangerous, like they had the goods on this guy and they were watching him close" you should follow SG's advice and

... wait for more video to come out instead of making up a narrative ...

And once again your statements coming from a January 6 apologist are

For someone who supposedly knows all the rules and regulations of law enforcement, why don't you understand the shooting aspect?

[SeattleGriz]

He never would have been shot if he didn't put himself in that situation. I'm sorry you can't accept accountability for people putting themselves in bad situations. Ones where people are screaming, using bullhorns, throwing objects, grabbing LE and resisting. You expect a level of discernment that is not humanly possible.

This is like blaming a car driver for hitting a person that ran out in front of them. "How DARE that person not be able to swerve and yield to the pedestrian in that microsecond".

Why are you against following the law?

How do you know he wasn't following the law? Has that been proven/demonstrated? I thought you were going to "wait for more video to come out instead of making up a narrative".

I expect local/state prosecutors to press charges against these agents. We'll see how much respect you have for the law and our judicial system/process if and when that happens.

And again, a January 6 apologist askng why someone is "against following the law" is

He was at a protest with a conceal carry in addition to being in an area he should not have been in addition to resisting law enforcement. That is what we call root cause.

How do you not understand this?

I was never a Jan 6 apologist. Read through my posts because I said if you were there, you got what you deserved. I just didn't believe it was an insurrection.

Same here. Fucked around and found out

[UNI88]

You gave an answer but not to the question that was asked.

I didn't tell you to wait for more video, i suggested that you follow SG's "advice".

You say SG is correct, does that mean you're not going to jump to conclusions or does that standard only apply to people you and SG disagree with?

You ask a lot of questions and when you get the answer, you run away

Let me clarify - you responded to the question, you didn't answer it.

Why are you ducking the question? Are you afraid to answer it?

I ask a lot of questions and get a lot of run around from MAQA yahoos as they duck and dodge to avoid answering.

[kalm]

How do you know he wasn't following the law? Has that been proven/demonstrated? I thought you were going to "wait for more video to come out instead of making up a narrative".

I expect local/state prosecutors to press charges against these agents. We'll see how much respect you have for the law and our judicial system/process if and when that happens.

And again, a January 6 apologist askng why someone is "against following the law" is

He was at a protest with a conceal carry in addition to being in an area he should not have been in addition to resisting law enforcement. That is what we call root cause.

How do you not understand this?

I was never a Jan 6 apologist. Read through my posts because I said if you were there, you got what you deserved. I just didn't believe it was an insurrection.

Same here. Fucked around and found out

“In an area he should not have been”. Was there an active immigration arrest in progress?

How was he resisting arrest? You haven’t watched a solid video of it have you?

[SeattleGriz]

He was at a protest with a conceal carry in addition to being in an area he should not have been in addition to resisting law enforcement. That is what we call root cause.

How do you not understand this?

I was never a Jan 6 apologist. Read through my posts because I said if you were there, you got what you deserved. I just didn't believe it was an insurrection.

Same here. Fucked around and found out

“In an area he should not have been”. Was there an active immigration arrest in progress?

How was he resisting arrest? You haven’t watched a solid video of it have you?

Those are non-sequiturs. Why do you think ICE was in the area? To have coffee? He should not have been where he was and he should not have been resisting. He resisted when the cops tried to get him out of the area and then when they hand contact of him, he resisted further.

Can't make it any more clear for you. Your moral relativism is astounding.

[SeattleGriz]

You ask a lot of questions and when you get the answer, you run away

Let me clarify - you responded to the question, you didn't answer it.

Why are you ducking the question? Are you afraid to answer it?

I ask a lot of questions and get a lot of run around from MAQA yahoos as they duck and dodge to avoid answering.

Because you continually ask stupid questions over and over and over and over. You, of all people dodge and duck. Still haven't told me what laws Jesus broke.

[UNI88]

Let me clarify - you responded to the question, you didn't answer it.

Why are you ducking the question? Are you afraid to answer it?

I ask a lot of questions and get a lot of run around from MAQA yahoos as they duck and dodge to avoid answering.

Because you continually ask stupid questions over and over and over and over. You, of all people dodge and duck. Still haven't told me what laws Jesus broke.

You call them stupid questions because you don't want to answer them but I think they need to be asked and I'm going to keep asking them.


I will ask again (and again if needed) ...

How did Pretti interfere with / obstruct law enforcement?
- By being there? No
- By filming? No
- By helping a woman who had been shoved to the ground up? No
- By carrying a weapon with a valid permit? No

So tell us, what exactly did he do to interfere / obstruct law enforcement?

More importantly, what threat did he actually pose to the agents at the time that he was shot?
- Was he still armed? No
- Could he have lunged for his weapon? Doesn't look like it
- Could he have physically overpowered the multiple agents who were standing over him? No
- Was he even facing the agents or was his back to the agents when he was shot?

How do you justify shooting an unarmed man?


The state/local prosecutor is likely to ask and/or consider these questions as is the federal judge assigned to the case.

[SeattleGriz]

Because you continually ask stupid questions over and over and over and over. You, of all people dodge and duck. Still haven't told me what laws Jesus broke.

You call them stupid questions because you don't want to answer them but I think they need to be asked and I'm going to keep asking them.


I will ask again (and again if needed) ...

How did Pretti interfere with / obstruct law enforcement?
- By being there? No
- By filming? No
- By helping a woman who had been shoved to the ground up? No
- By carrying a weapon with a valid permit? No

So tell us, what exactly did he do to interfere / obstruct law enforcement?

More importantly, what threat did he actually pose to the agents at the time that he was shot?
- Was he still armed? No
- Could he have lunged for his weapon? Doesn't look like it
- Could he have physically overpowered the multiple agents who were standing over him? No
- Was he even facing the agents or was his back to the agents when he was shot?

How do you justify shooting an unarmed man?


The state/local prosecutor is likely to ask and/or consider these questions as is the federal judge assigned to the case.

Because they can't be answered at this point. Need to see bodycam footage and hear audio. What don't you understand about that?

I have no idea if the guy crossed a boundary he was not supposed to cross. I have no idea why he thought it was a good idea to disregard all rules of conceal carry and not cooperate.

You don't know either, but you can't stop spewing some left wing set of talking points. It's patently obvious by the outline of your post.

[BDKJMU]

Very well funded & well organized commie agitators.

A coordinated web of encrypted chats, street alerts and tracking of ICE "Abductors" in a sophisticated database reviewed by Fox News Digital shows that agitators were already mobilized at the scene where 37-year-old Alex Pretti was killed minutes before any shots were fired. ICE and Border Patrol agents were there to arrest an illegal immigrant criminal, and Pretti and others were there, outside a donut shop, to meet them as part of a strategic pattern of organized interference with law enforcement operations.

Over the following hours, a national network of socialist, communist and Marxist-Leninist cells in the United States leveraged the tragic fatality into a nationwide protest operation. While grief and outrage over Pretti's death is genuine, the network's real-time rapid response, using short sensational video clips and emojis as weapons of propaganda, offers a window into the disciplined logistics, messaging and coordination of far-left warriors fomenting insurgency-like confrontation with authorities.

"This level of engineered chaos is unique to Minneapolis. It is the direct consequence of far left agitators, working with local authorities," Vice President JD Vance observed in a Sunday post on X.

The encrypted Signal messages obtained by Fox News Digital in real time show that anti-ICE "rapid responders" were actively tracking, broadcasting and summoning "backup" around federal agents outside Glam Doll Donuts on Nicollet Avenue, where the shooting occurred. Local "rapid responders" made at least 26 entries into a database called "MN ICE Plates" in the critical hours before and after the killing, documenting the license plate numbers and details of alleged ICE vehicles they claimed to see around Nicollet Avenue.

The entry at row 344 read, "At the nicollet [sic] murder," chronicling a black Jeep Wagoneer at the location with agents allegedly "involved in shooting." Row 338 had a "Glam Doll Donuts" entry, tracking a black Ford Taurus.

At 9:50 a.m. ET, just before the killing, a user identified as "Willow" shared a 22-second video on an encrypted Signal chat for anti-ICE "rapid responders."

"26and 3rd," wrote "Willow," quickly following up with, "Outside Glam Doll."

The video showed two agents, one wearing a vest marked "POLICE," studying the front door of Glam Doll before walking away, past a sign in the window that read, "ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA."

As the camera rolled, the person filming yelled, "No!"

The camera followed the agents as they returned to a maroon Dodge Durango, passing another sign in the window that read, "ALL WELCOME HERE."

In the video, someone shouted, "Get out of here!"

Just three minutes later, at 9:53 a.m. ET, a second Signal user, "Salacious B. Crumb," escalated the alert, summoning additional responders and citing the same vehicle and agents.

"Backup needed at the Black Forest Inn parking lot on Nicollet Ave just south of 26th Street," the message read.

"Multiple vehicles with many agents appear to be staging there," the alert continued. "One confirmed ICE vehicle seen was a maroon Dodge Durango [plate number], but it has driven away northbound on Nicollet." Fox News Digital has redacted the Florida license plate number included in the original message.

ICE Assistant Director Marcos Charles said Sunday that the violence on the streets was "not a coincidence," considering the "chaos and mayhem" that agitators are fomenting in Minneapolis. At the same press conference, Customs and Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Greg Bovino confirmed that Pretti was "on the scene several minutes" before the fatal shooting.

Video of the scene shows that as Pretti stepped into the middle of Nicolle Street to direct traffic, fellow agitators could be heard blowing whistles to alert locals that ICE officers were around. Soon after, Pretti ended up in a street confrontation with Customs and Border Patrol agents, across the street from Glam Doll Donuts outside a worn storefront marked "NEW AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER," a nonprofit focused on immigration entry programs for Somalis.

Within minutes, at about 10:05 a.m. ET, at least one Customs and Border Patrol agent shot Pretti, killing him.

At 10:18 a.m. ET, the Signal network erupted.

Using a red phone emoji to signal an all-points alert, a message blasted out: " easy. URGENT: observers urgently requested at glam doll donuts @ 26th & nicollet [sic]," the alert continued. "an observer has been shot by ice, unknown condition, emts [emergency medical technicians] present, please be safe. EDIT: medics requested to join perimeter in case agents start gassing. be aware there are many agents and mpd [Minneapolis Police Department] officers present."

Within minutes, far-left activists descended on Nicollet Avenue. Soon after, a video showed corrugated boxes of supplies apparently lined up on a Minneapolis sidewalk for protesters, including boxes marked "DESINER MASKS" [sic] and "FREE WINTER HATS," next to piles of bottled water.

Within hours, socialist leaders turbocharged their "rapid responders" in Minneapolis and mobilized street protesters from New York City to Los Angeles.

Media outlets, including CNN and MSNOW, described "angry protesters" but failed to identify the ideological networks behind the mobilization, even as protesters flashed their signs with their logos and names, touting socialism, communism and Marxism, on camera.

The Minneapolis activation marked the beginning of an almost instantaneous weekend surge by far-left organizations, including hardened socialist and communist groups operating in an ecosystem that national security experts describe as an insurgent-style operation designed to exploit tragedy to wage a domestic political war.

The strategy mirrors past mobilizations, including the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing in May 2020, and exploits well-intentioned public sympathy by rapidly framing Pretti — an intensive care unit nurse at a Veterans Administration hospital — as a symbol of resistance, much like Renee Good, the first victim of an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.

Just as they responded in real-time to mobilize "comrades" to march on the streets within 12 hours of the U.S. arrest of Venezuelan strongman Nicholas Maduro in early January, socialist, communist and Marxist-Leninist groups now frame their activation as an action within the "belly of the beast" against the "hyperimperialism" of the United States.

Based on a digital analysis of scores of rapid-response messages following the killing on Saturday, a hub of communist and socialist nonprofit organizations emerged as key organizers of the protests, many of them funded by an American-born billionaire Neville Roy Singham, a self-declared Marxist-Leninist living in Shanghai, and offshoots of the People’s Forum Inc., a nonprofit hub Singham has funded in New York City since 2017 as an "incubator" for socialist and communist groups. The People's Forum has declined requests for comment.

At 10:48 a.m. ET, BreakThrough News, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and propaganda arm of the People’s Forum, broke the news widely of the killing, sharing a video recorded from inside the Glam Doll Donut shot of the tussle outside, punctuated by gun shots and frantic narration, "Holy s**t. What the f***!...Did they f***ing kill that guy? F***ing kidding me, dude."

BreakThrough News put a dramatic black-and-white caption over the video: "BREAKING: Another CPB Shooting in Minneapolis." By Sunday afternoon, the video had 4.1 million views, alongside the outlet’s calls to support the People’s Republic of China, Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro and the communist revolution in Cuba.

Before the video cuts off, someone can be heard saying, "Yo, we need people on site!"

At 11:40 a.m., BreakThrough News broadcast a 39-second video showing Minnesota National Guard soldiers charging across a street with batons, some falling as clouds of breath rose in the cold air.

Soon after, at 12:24 p.m., the Party for Socialism and Liberation – a political wing of the movement, working with shared leadership at the People’s Forum – published a quickly-made graphic, "CPB MURDERS ANOTHER IN MINNEAPOLIS," and the message, "EXPAND THE GENERAL STRIKE!"

The call for a "general strike," a classic communist tactic, refers to coordinated mass work stoppages aimed at paralyzing civil society to force political – and economic – outcomes.

At 12:33 p.m., the People’s Forum blasted out a bold red-and-white poster to followers, calling for an "EMERGENCY PROTEST" at 4 p.m. ET at Union Square in midtown Manhattan, with the message, "STOP ICE TERROR."

In lockstep, at 12:57 p.m., Democratic Socialists of America, the 501(c)(3) nonprofit that elected Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City, posted a stark black-and-white graphic on X, calling the killing an "execution" and demanding, "ABOLISH ICE NOW."

At the protest, Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian political operative who has led virulently anti-Israel protests with socialist organizations after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack against Israel by Hamas terrorists, rallied the crowd at the 4 p.m. protest, yelling, "We will bring this country to a halt!" The People’s Forum shared the 22-second video clip with the caption: "HAPPENING NOW IN NYC."

Other groups mobilized simultaneously, including Freedom Road Socialist Organization, a self-described Marxist-Leninist group that has waved its red flag with its acronym, "FRSO," in the middle of the protests since Good’s killing.

Also active: the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee, which has led many of the rapid-response efforts and Black Lives Matter chapters, which led the recent stampede through a local Christian church.

By early evening, the narrative had coalesced into a chorus of voices within the far-left propaganda apparatus, adopting charged historical language to brand federal officials as Nazi-like figures. At 4:12 p.m. ET, Calla Walsh, a controversial communist activist filmed this past summer in Iran shouting, "Death to America! Death to Israel!" shared a 32-second video showing barricades built with Republic Services dumpsters.

She wrote, "People of Minneapolis build barricades, trapping ICE Gestapo at the scene of their latest murder in broad daylight. Not far from where they killed Renee Good a couple weeks ago, not far from where George Floyd was killed in 2020."

Another CNN segment from Minneapolis interviewed Chris Gray, describing him only as Pretti’s "next-door neighbor." Gray spoke about Pretti while delivering a well-scripted appeal for a general strike to dismantle the "Trump regime" and promote "non-violent resistance." The segment did not disclose that Gray is a member of Socialist Alternative, the U.S. affiliate of the International Socialist Alternative, a "global fighting organization of workers, young people, and all those oppressed by capitalism and imperialism," seeking to create a "socialist world."

By evening’s end, at 9:44 p.m. ET, Gloria La Riva, a co-founder of the Party for Socialism and Liberation who has described herself as "a communist," posted a message on X, using the inflammatory language now normalized: "Alex Pretti was murdered in cold blood, everyone knows that. 10 shots in his back. All of Trump's, Noem's, Bovino's lies cannot cover it up. The people's struggle will only grow!"

The maroon Dodge Durango in the early Signal alerts from Saturday morning is Entry No. 2069 in the publicly shared database, "MN ICE PLATES," publicly shared for any user with the link. It included a gallery of photos of alleged ICE vehicles.

At last count on Sunday, the database has 4,626 records of license plate numbers organized as "Highly Suspected ICE," "Confirmed ICE," "Suspected ICE," "Cleared – Not ICE" and "Unknown."

The total number of "Confirmed ICE" entries is 2,933 records. The total number of records labeled "Abductors" is 455.….

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/anti-i ... -socialist

[SeattleGriz]

Very well funded & well organized commie agitators.

A coordinated web of encrypted chats, street alerts and tracking of ICE "Abductors" in a sophisticated database reviewed by Fox News Digital shows that agitators were already mobilized at the scene where 37-year-old Alex Pretti was killed minutes before any shots were fired. ICE and Border Patrol agents were there to arrest an illegal immigrant criminal, and Pretti and others were there, outside a donut shop, to meet them as part of a strategic pattern of organized interference with law enforcement operations.

Over the following hours, a national network of socialist, communist and Marxist-Leninist cells in the United States leveraged the tragic fatality into a nationwide protest operation. While grief and outrage over Pretti's death is genuine, the network's real-time rapid response, using short sensational video clips and emojis as weapons of propaganda, offers a window into the disciplined logistics, messaging and coordination of far-left warriors fomenting insurgency-like confrontation with authorities.

"This level of engineered chaos is unique to Minneapolis. It is the direct consequence of far left agitators, working with local authorities," Vice President JD Vance observed in a Sunday post on X.

The encrypted Signal messages obtained by Fox News Digital in real time show that anti-ICE "rapid responders" were actively tracking, broadcasting and summoning "backup" around federal agents outside Glam Doll Donuts on Nicollet Avenue, where the shooting occurred. Local "rapid responders" made at least 26 entries into a database called "MN ICE Plates" in the critical hours before and after the killing, documenting the license plate numbers and details of alleged ICE vehicles they claimed to see around Nicollet Avenue.

The entry at row 344 read, "At the nicollet [sic] murder," chronicling a black Jeep Wagoneer at the location with agents allegedly "involved in shooting." Row 338 had a "Glam Doll Donuts" entry, tracking a black Ford Taurus.

At 9:50 a.m. ET, just before the killing, a user identified as "Willow" shared a 22-second video on an encrypted Signal chat for anti-ICE "rapid responders."

"26and 3rd," wrote "Willow," quickly following up with, "Outside Glam Doll."

The video showed two agents, one wearing a vest marked "POLICE," studying the front door of Glam Doll before walking away, past a sign in the window that read, "ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA."

As the camera rolled, the person filming yelled, "No!"

The camera followed the agents as they returned to a maroon Dodge Durango, passing another sign in the window that read, "ALL WELCOME HERE."

In the video, someone shouted, "Get out of here!"

Just three minutes later, at 9:53 a.m. ET, a second Signal user, "Salacious B. Crumb," escalated the alert, summoning additional responders and citing the same vehicle and agents.

"Backup needed at the Black Forest Inn parking lot on Nicollet Ave just south of 26th Street," the message read.

"Multiple vehicles with many agents appear to be staging there," the alert continued. "One confirmed ICE vehicle seen was a maroon Dodge Durango [plate number], but it has driven away northbound on Nicollet." Fox News Digital has redacted the Florida license plate number included in the original message.

ICE Assistant Director Marcos Charles said Sunday that the violence on the streets was "not a coincidence," considering the "chaos and mayhem" that agitators are fomenting in Minneapolis. At the same press conference, Customs and Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Greg Bovino confirmed that Pretti was "on the scene several minutes" before the fatal shooting.

Video of the scene shows that as Pretti stepped into the middle of Nicolle Street to direct traffic, fellow agitators could be heard blowing whistles to alert locals that ICE officers were around. Soon after, Pretti ended up in a street confrontation with Customs and Border Patrol agents, across the street from Glam Doll Donuts outside a worn storefront marked "NEW AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER," a nonprofit focused on immigration entry programs for Somalis.

Within minutes, at about 10:05 a.m. ET, at least one Customs and Border Patrol agent shot Pretti, killing him.

At 10:18 a.m. ET, the Signal network erupted.

Using a red phone emoji to signal an all-points alert, a message blasted out: " easy. URGENT: observers urgently requested at glam doll donuts @ 26th & nicollet [sic]," the alert continued. "an observer has been shot by ice, unknown condition, emts [emergency medical technicians] present, please be safe. EDIT: medics requested to join perimeter in case agents start gassing. be aware there are many agents and mpd [Minneapolis Police Department] officers present."

Within minutes, far-left activists descended on Nicollet Avenue. Soon after, a video showed corrugated boxes of supplies apparently lined up on a Minneapolis sidewalk for protesters, including boxes marked "DESINER MASKS" [sic] and "FREE WINTER HATS," next to piles of bottled water.

Within hours, socialist leaders turbocharged their "rapid responders" in Minneapolis and mobilized street protesters from New York City to Los Angeles.

Media outlets, including CNN and MSNOW, described "angry protesters" but failed to identify the ideological networks behind the mobilization, even as protesters flashed their signs with their logos and names, touting socialism, communism and Marxism, on camera.

The Minneapolis activation marked the beginning of an almost instantaneous weekend surge by far-left organizations, including hardened socialist and communist groups operating in an ecosystem that national security experts describe as an insurgent-style operation designed to exploit tragedy to wage a domestic political war.

The strategy mirrors past mobilizations, including the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing in May 2020, and exploits well-intentioned public sympathy by rapidly framing Pretti — an intensive care unit nurse at a Veterans Administration hospital — as a symbol of resistance, much like Renee Good, the first victim of an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.

Just as they responded in real-time to mobilize "comrades" to march on the streets within 12 hours of the U.S. arrest of Venezuelan strongman Nicholas Maduro in early January, socialist, communist and Marxist-Leninist groups now frame their activation as an action within the "belly of the beast" against the "hyperimperialism" of the United States.

Based on a digital analysis of scores of rapid-response messages following the killing on Saturday, a hub of communist and socialist nonprofit organizations emerged as key organizers of the protests, many of them funded by an American-born billionaire Neville Roy Singham, a self-declared Marxist-Leninist living in Shanghai, and offshoots of the People’s Forum Inc., a nonprofit hub Singham has funded in New York City since 2017 as an "incubator" for socialist and communist groups. The People's Forum has declined requests for comment.

At 10:48 a.m. ET, BreakThrough News, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and propaganda arm of the People’s Forum, broke the news widely of the killing, sharing a video recorded from inside the Glam Doll Donut shot of the tussle outside, punctuated by gun shots and frantic narration, "Holy s**t. What the f***!...Did they f***ing kill that guy? F***ing kidding me, dude."

BreakThrough News put a dramatic black-and-white caption over the video: "BREAKING: Another CPB Shooting in Minneapolis." By Sunday afternoon, the video had 4.1 million views, alongside the outlet’s calls to support the People’s Republic of China, Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro and the communist revolution in Cuba.

Before the video cuts off, someone can be heard saying, "Yo, we need people on site!"

At 11:40 a.m., BreakThrough News broadcast a 39-second video showing Minnesota National Guard soldiers charging across a street with batons, some falling as clouds of breath rose in the cold air.

Soon after, at 12:24 p.m., the Party for Socialism and Liberation – a political wing of the movement, working with shared leadership at the People’s Forum – published a quickly-made graphic, "CPB MURDERS ANOTHER IN MINNEAPOLIS," and the message, "EXPAND THE GENERAL STRIKE!"

The call for a "general strike," a classic communist tactic, refers to coordinated mass work stoppages aimed at paralyzing civil society to force political – and economic – outcomes.

At 12:33 p.m., the People’s Forum blasted out a bold red-and-white poster to followers, calling for an "EMERGENCY PROTEST" at 4 p.m. ET at Union Square in midtown Manhattan, with the message, "STOP ICE TERROR."

In lockstep, at 12:57 p.m., Democratic Socialists of America, the 501(c)(3) nonprofit that elected Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City, posted a stark black-and-white graphic on X, calling the killing an "execution" and demanding, "ABOLISH ICE NOW."

At the protest, Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian political operative who has led virulently anti-Israel protests with socialist organizations after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack against Israel by Hamas terrorists, rallied the crowd at the 4 p.m. protest, yelling, "We will bring this country to a halt!" The People’s Forum shared the 22-second video clip with the caption: "HAPPENING NOW IN NYC."

Other groups mobilized simultaneously, including Freedom Road Socialist Organization, a self-described Marxist-Leninist group that has waved its red flag with its acronym, "FRSO," in the middle of the protests since Good’s killing.

Also active: the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee, which has led many of the rapid-response efforts and Black Lives Matter chapters, which led the recent stampede through a local Christian church.

By early evening, the narrative had coalesced into a chorus of voices within the far-left propaganda apparatus, adopting charged historical language to brand federal officials as Nazi-like figures. At 4:12 p.m. ET, Calla Walsh, a controversial communist activist filmed this past summer in Iran shouting, "Death to America! Death to Israel!" shared a 32-second video showing barricades built with Republic Services dumpsters.

She wrote, "People of Minneapolis build barricades, trapping ICE Gestapo at the scene of their latest murder in broad daylight. Not far from where they killed Renee Good a couple weeks ago, not far from where George Floyd was killed in 2020."

Another CNN segment from Minneapolis interviewed Chris Gray, describing him only as Pretti’s "next-door neighbor." Gray spoke about Pretti while delivering a well-scripted appeal for a general strike to dismantle the "Trump regime" and promote "non-violent resistance." The segment did not disclose that Gray is a member of Socialist Alternative, the U.S. affiliate of the International Socialist Alternative, a "global fighting organization of workers, young people, and all those oppressed by capitalism and imperialism," seeking to create a "socialist world."

By evening’s end, at 9:44 p.m. ET, Gloria La Riva, a co-founder of the Party for Socialism and Liberation who has described herself as "a communist," posted a message on X, using the inflammatory language now normalized: "Alex Pretti was murdered in cold blood, everyone knows that. 10 shots in his back. All of Trump's, Noem's, Bovino's lies cannot cover it up. The people's struggle will only grow!"

The maroon Dodge Durango in the early Signal alerts from Saturday morning is Entry No. 2069 in the publicly shared database, "MN ICE PLATES," publicly shared for any user with the link. It included a gallery of photos of alleged ICE vehicles.

At last count on Sunday, the database has 4,626 records of license plate numbers organized as "Highly Suspected ICE," "Confirmed ICE," "Suspected ICE," "Cleared – Not ICE" and "Unknown."

The total number of "Confirmed ICE" entries is 2,933 records. The total number of records labeled "Abductors" is 455.….

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/anti-i ... -socialist

The part no one is asking about is, why is Minnesota and their elected officials fomenting the issue? Sure seems like they don't want to answer to all the fraud and graft. That and how much counterfeit money flows through the area.

[BDKJMU]

https://nypost.com/2026/01/25/us-news/a ... ed-agents/

[BDKJMU]

Where was the local PD? Or Tampon Tim’s National Guard? The St Paul (or Minneapolis) police chief is a fooking disgrace.


Time for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act…

[kalm]

[BDKJMU]

They were standing in their OWN YARD defending their property when a BLANTIFA mob was walking by, some of whom trespassed on their property. Kalmdani.

[BDKJMU]

And a bunch of hotel workers out of work, at least temporarily, thanks to the street commies.

[houndawg]

You call them stupid questions because you don't want to answer them but I think they need to be asked and I'm going to keep asking them.


I will ask again (and again if needed) ...

How did Pretti interfere with / obstruct law enforcement?
- By being there? No
- By filming? No
- By helping a woman who had been shoved to the ground up? No
- By carrying a weapon with a valid permit? No

So tell us, what exactly did he do to interfere / obstruct law enforcement?

More importantly, what threat did he actually pose to the agents at the time that he was shot?
- Was he still armed? No
- Could he have lunged for his weapon? Doesn't look like it
- Could he have physically overpowered the multiple agents who were standing over him? No
- Was he even facing the agents or was his back to the agents when he was shot?

How do you justify shooting an unarmed man?


The state/local prosecutor is likely to ask and/or consider these questions as is the federal judge assigned to the case.

Because they can't be answered at this point. Need to see bodycam footage and hear audio. What don't you understand about that?

I have no idea if the guy crossed a boundary he was not supposed to cross. I have no idea why he thought it was a good idea to disregard all rules of conceal carry and not cooperate.

You don't know either, but you can't stop spewing some left wing set of talking points. It's patently obvious by the outline of your post.

It was an execution and everybody has seen the vids.


You don't seen to understand that the reality is that ICE are sitting ducks when the people get mad enough - I bet there are 200 deer rifles within a quarter mile of where the execution took place, mostly scoped. Which would make ICE easy pickings for anybody that can shoot. Their shit is for close-in stuff - all that patriotic citizen-snipers have to do is put them in a crossfire from about 250m and watch them flop around on the pavement like the Trump dance. If that doesn't work, just set them on fire when they go back to their hotel. Or throw sufuric acid in their face - all kinds of chemistry labs in a well-educated state and The Anarchists Cookbook has all kinds of great tips on home made explosives.

[kalm]

They were standing in their OWN YARD defending their property when a BLANTIFA mob was walking by, some of whom trespassed on their property. Kalmdani.

Nope. I’m sorry. You obviously didn’t get the memo. They are criminals.



MAGA!