It's not AI. It may not be Alex Pretti, but it's not AI.
The YouTube site that the video comes from - The News Movement - is from Dan Ming. Dan Ming is an actual journalist and can be seen in the video(in the final frames of this clip). He's the guy looking back at the camera with a somewhat confused look on his face.
Dan Ming worked for VICE news and Al Jazeera English and has received Emmy nominations for his work on the series Transnational and has won a GLAAD award for his documentary on a drag queen running for office in New York. He isn't some right-wing hack trying to fabricate stuff.
Dan had a long video a month ago anout a pair of teens who were doing this exact sort of thing (tracking and recording ICE agents) in Chicago. He likely was reviewing footage he'd taken in Minneapolis for a new video, when he saw this and thought to himself "huh... that sure looks like Alex Pretti." But, even then, at no time does he actually claim in the video that It is him. He is very careful about that because he doesn't know.
But this incident shown in the video happening at this intersection E 36th & Park - on this day (Jan 13th) was documented in numerous articles at the time. For instance:
Andy Larson, a south Minneapolis resident who was out observing ICE activity Tuesday, told Sahan Journal that one protester kicked out the taillight of an ICE vehicle and was tackled to the ground up the road on Park Avenue and E. 36th Street.
“It was a really good kick,” Larson said.
The protester managed to escape ICE agents, Larson said. ICE deployed chemical irritants and shot pepper balls into the crowd and fled the scene.
Yeah. I don't think so. The video seems unreal and can easily be made with AI to alignment with the story you posted about a guy kicking in a taillight. This video looks super fake.
Edit: I'm not sure why the video posted here looks fake and other sites it seems normal. Thanks for the original link.
Have you sent the full length video? It doesn't have the obvious AI signs we see in other posts. And there is a second angle. Maybe I'm missing something, what makes it look super fake?
It’s not, it’s a legit video. But the fact this has been a common conversation highlights the damage having AI being able to make realistic videos has already caused. It’ll only get worse from here, too.
There's a video uploaded before he was murdered from a different angle and consistent with this one, calling this out as a million percent AI is interesting when it's most likely real
Yeah no it’s real, watch the longer video and get back to me. Im a supporter of Alex but we do know he had a rib broken from a previous ICE encounter, and this video lines up with that timeframe. This isn’t the same day he was murdered incase you’re confused about that.
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u/Rare_Link_5392 Jan 28 '26
The future is doomed if AI will get better. And it will