In this video, I do my best to provide an overview, a frame-by-frame breakdown, context, and an analysis of the Alex Pretti shooting based on the information that is available as of January 27, 2026. And then I offer some sharp criticism of Pretti and the Trump Admin’s initial responses and handling of the incident.

I hope you appreciate the information, thoughts, and commentary presented in this episode.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction

03:08 WARNING about video. Disturbing material and loud noises at certain points in the episode.

04:03 Who was Alex Pretti? We don’t have a full bio on him, but here’s a little bit of what we know.

09:47 Getting into the incident that resulted in his death. Going over multiple videos, no commentary at first, then frame-by-frame breakdowns, analysis, and commentary.

01:01:34 Trump says Pretti was carrying a “very dangerous gun, a dangerous and unpredictable gun,” adding, “It’s a gun that goes off when people don’t know it.”

01:08:35 Segment covering the Sig P320 and the possibility that it may have gone off immediately after it was removed from Pretti by a CBP agent.

01:23:00 Summary of my view on the shooting incident:

Understandable that it happened. Lawful shoot. No crime was committed by the officers. I don’t have any criticism of the officers involved.

Pretti is physically resisting law enforcement the entire time. From the very first moments of the altercation, from before he is OC sprayed, he is disobeying and obstructing law enforcement. He goes hands-on with them. Gets sprayed multiple times, goes non-compliant. An officer begins to take him into custody. Pretti resists. Curls into a ball, tucks his arms and legs under him. More officers work to get Pretty spread out so they can cuff him and take him into custody. Over a half dozen officers end up involved; at least three are working to gain control of Pretti while a fourth disarms him and a sixth observes.

As he is disarmed and an officer is shouting, “Gun! Gun!” and agents are reacting to that, drawing their weapons or taking a step back to draw, Pretti is still fighting to stand up and does begin to stand up. He goes from knees and elbows on the ground and tucked (resisting pose) to trying to stand up. He gets his right foot under him, planted on the ground, and he still has his phone in his right hand (which not every agent knows is a phone). This is when he is shot. It’s tragic, but justified. However, there’s enough grayness/ambiguity about it that it’s exploitable. It’s the sort of incident that these Antifa/BLM/counterinsurgency cells work to manifest into existence because through them they can gain a martyr, public attention, civil friction, fracturing of political opposition, narrative programming material, and capitulation from authorities.

01:27:00 This was NOT Alex Pretti’s first altercation with federal law enforcement.

01:32:00 Context: Protests, fraud scandal, activation of insurgent groups, local and state law enforcement not working with federal law enforcement, Democrat leadership not cooperating, threats against law enforcement up 8000%, etc

01:35:00 Ret. Green Beret Warrant Officer explains how we are watching a counterinsurgency in Minnesota.

01:01:44:12 Rich Higgins was right.

01:46:25 Criticism for the Trump Admin and their responses to this shooting.

02:13:00 Criticism intensifies.

02:24:35 Closing thoughts

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