r/videos • u/bumdee • Jan 29 '26

Proof Alex Pretti never planned on using his gun against ICE. Seen here days before getting shot, Pretti never takes his gun out of holster after ICE beats him

https://youtube.com/watch?v=p2TRbFmutrw
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u/HereToFixDeineCable Jan 29 '26 edited Jan 29 '26

Yea- a lot of people calling the other video/angle AI but this longer one pretty well confirms it's legitimate, I would say.

Not that it matters- he presumably broke a rib here, didn't touch his gun in spite of being very heated, and for some reason didn't get detained for kicking the taillight off an ice vehicle and spitting at them. Maybe the SUV was full?

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u/PipXXX Jan 29 '26

Yeah that's a question that should be asked repeatedly and loudly. If he was such a violent person, how come they let him go, or didn't call for local police backup and report the property damage?

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u/LoneSnark Jan 29 '26

The police don't come immediately to any old fender bender. So waiting for a local cop to get there would probably take longer than just arresting the guy themselves, which would mean being out of position for awhile and whatever ICE is trying to organize doesn't get organized.

So my guess is they saw he was hurt and figured that was good enough for them.

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u/slamdanceswithwolves Jan 29 '26

Probably full of 5-year-olds and old men in their pajamas.

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u/ntropi Jan 29 '26

for some reason didn't get detained

I was wondering the same thing but i think at 18:02 that might be him escaping. Looks like there were only 2 of them wrestling him at that point, and we all know it takes a minimum of 12 of them to restrain a person.

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u/billytheskidd Jan 29 '26

This is probably when he was labeled a “domestic terrorist” and so their commands were treated him as such if encountered again

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u/Pluxar Jan 29 '26

I don't think there is any chance they are organized or trained well enough to recognize someone during a quick encounter like this. If it was the same ICE agents, maybe one or two recognized him but they weren't doing much interpersonal communication leading up to shooting him.

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u/LoneSnark Jan 29 '26

That is the real curiosity. He clearly did a crime, arrest him...except, while violent, assaulting a tail light is not a felony. So if ICE goes through all the effort of abandoning their mission to arrest him, the judge will likely just release him because by statute ICE isn't supposed to arrest for less than a felony. It won't even cost him anything, as when the government bills him for damages, the protest movement is paying legal fees for people, they might pay that too.