The Left tried to gaslight Americans into believing Renee Good was just an innocent bystander when she drove her car into an ICE agent earlier this month.
That narrative collapsed fast when evidence showed Good was a trained anti-ICE agitator who deliberately obstructed law enforcement.
And now the media wants you to focus solely on the tragic shooting of Alex Pretti while ignoring the organized network that put him at that ICE operation in the first place.
The Uncomfortable Questions No One's Asking
Social media posts from the Left keep hammering on Pretti's job as an ICU nurse, as if working in healthcare proves he was just a concerned citizen.
The Left desperately wants this story to be about federal agents gunning down an innocent man.
But Pretti was part of an organized network dedicated to tracking and confronting immigration enforcement operations.
And what that network looks like should concern every American who values the rule of law.
Inside the Signal Network Running 24/7 Operations
Newsmax reporter Cam Higby spent days undercover inside the Signal messaging groups these activists use to coordinate their efforts.
What he discovered was a sophisticated machine running around the clock.
The groups use emojis next to members' names to denote specific roles.
Mobile patrols drive around searching for federal vehicles.
Dispatchers run constant calls directing people where ICE has been spotted.
License plate checkers maintain databases of known federal vehicles.
Medics stand by.
They clock in and out like any organized operation.
Minneapolis Carved Into Patrol Zones
Each area of Minneapolis has its own group chat.
The city is carved up into patrol zones that tell activists exactly where to operate.
The chats max out at 1,000 members by midday and get deleted and recreated daily to avoid detection.
Higby captured screenshots at 2 a.m. showing dispatchers calling for observers at locations with potential targets.
They use a military-style system called SALUTE that tracks size, activity, location, uniform, time, and equipment of federal units.
Pretti Was Reportedly a Member of Kingfield ICE Watch Group
Alex Pretti was a member of the Kingfield Signal ICE watch group.
Jeanne Massey, who coordinates rapid response for these networks, confirmed Pretti's involvement.
She describes her role as patrolling neighborhoods when ICE is spotted and alerting residents to enforcement operations.
The network mobilized to the location where Pretti was killed within minutes of ICE agents arriving.
Massey says the community is "horrified" and "furious" about Pretti's killing.
What Massey conveniently leaves out is what Pretti was doing there in the first place.
What the Video Shows
Video footage shows Pretti recording federal agents with his phone at the active enforcement scene.
When an agent pushed a woman to the ground, Pretti stepped between them and put his arm around the woman.
Border Patrol agents pepper-sprayed Pretti and wrestled him to the ground.
During the scuffle, an agent discovered Pretti was legally carrying a concealed firearm with a valid permit.
The agent removed the gun from Pretti's holster.
Less than a second after the gun was removed, another agent fired multiple shots at Pretti.
Bystander video verified by Reuters, the BBC, The Wall Street Journal, and the Associated Press confirms Pretti never pulled or brandished his weapon.
The gun only became exposed during the physical altercation.
Some experts believe the shooting may have resulted from an agent reacting to a possible accidental discharge of Pretti's weapon while it was in the hand of the agent who had just removed it.
The Real Story Everyone's Ignoring
Americans have every right to carry a concealed weapon.
Your Second Amendment rights don't disappear because you're protesting something, no matter how misguided the cause.
Filming federal agents in public isn't a crime.
Standing between an agent and someone on the ground isn't necessarily obstruction.
But Pretti made a fatal error in judgment.
He involved himself in a volatile situation at an active federal law enforcement operation.
And it went sideways.
The tragedy is that an organized network put him there.
These Signal groups coordinate around-the-clock surveillance and rapid deployment to ICE operations.
That's where the line gets blurry.
Monitoring federal agents isn't illegal.
But when does organized tracking, following, and confronting law enforcement cross into criminal obstruction?
The Department of Justice is now investigating these activist networks for potential RICO charges.
The evidence is clearer than ever that there are organized coordination networks that put people directly in harm's way when confrontations with armed federal agents become inevitable.
Alex Pretti is dead because of a combination of unfortunate circumstances and a tragic lapse in judgment.
But the organized network that mobilized him to that location deserves hard questions about what they're really doing and who is really behind them.
Sources:
- Matt Margolis, "The Left Doesn't Want You to Know This About Alex Pretti, the Man the Border Patrol Shot," PJ Media, January 25, 2026.
- Cam Higby, Twitter thread on Minneapolis Signal infiltration, January 24, 2026.
- Multiple sources, "Killing of Alex Pretti," Wikipedia, January 26, 2026.
- Paul Mauro, "Far-left groups mobilized before and after deadly Minneapolis shooting," Fox News, January 25, 2026.
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