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Elizabeth

@thejawnoftime.bsky.social

Bovino seen leaving Minneapolis

January 27, 2026 at 1:49 AM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

Greg Bovino trying to log in to his X account

a man wearing a black t-shirt with the word jets on it is standing next to a trash can .

ALT: a man wearing a black t-shirt with the word jets on it is standing next to a trash can .

media.tenor.com

January 27, 2026 at 12:53 AM

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David_j_roth

@davidjroth.bsky.social

Greg Bovino sadly filling one steamer trunk after another with elaborate fashy overcoats, the teargas canisters he always has bouncing around on him like labubus, and dozens of "chest-belts." They will be shipped ahead of him as he prepares to return to his home, which is a men's size 10 boot.

January 27, 2026 at 12:18 AM

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Chris Scott

@iamchrisscott.bsky.social

I refuse to die until I get to see Stephen Miller humiliated as publicly and devastatingly as possible. It is the most important thing in the world to me.

January 27, 2026 at 12:24 AM

ransaysthis

@ransaysthis.bsky.social

Goodbye to this fucking Nazi

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 7d

Veteran ICE and CBP officials grew more and more uneasy as Bovino worked outside his agency’s chain of command and appeared to relish his role as a political actor.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Greg Bovino Loses His Job

The Border Patrol chief has been ousted from his role as “commander at large,” and will return to El Centro.

www.theatlantic.com

January 27, 2026 at 1:11 AM

ransaysthis

@ransaysthis.bsky.social

Even God doesn’t want to watch this Milwaukee Bucks team

Jim Owczarski @jimowczarski.bsky.social · 8d

The #Bucks game vs. the #Mavericks game scheduled for tonight has been postponed. #NBASky

January 25, 2026 at 9:21 PM

ransaysthis

@ransaysthis.bsky.social

GET HIM DANA

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

BASH: Why was an unarmed man shot multiple times by your Border Patrol agents?

BOVINO: Dana, you don't know he was unarmed. I don't know he was unarmed. That's freeze frame adjudication. That's why we have an investigation.

BASH: It's not a freeze frame

January 25, 2026 at 5:12 PM

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Jeff Rueter

@jeffrueter.bsky.social

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed.

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM

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Micah

@rincewind.run

Republicans: everyone must be able to carry any gun at all times,
up to and including high powered rifles, to protect themselves against tyranny

also Republicans, without batting an eye: carrying a gun is unquestionable justification for federal agents to shoot you dead in the street

January 24, 2026 at 5:13 PM

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Kyle Griffin

@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: "To everyone listening: Stand with Minneapolis. Stand up for America."

January 24, 2026 at 6:05 PM

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Joshua J. Friedman

@joshuajfriedman.com

"The gentleman I was standing next to was focused on helping people who were coming into Nicollet Avenue understand that they needed to take it slow and helping them get through. ...

"Next thing I knew, they shot him." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Stella Carlson said that before the shooting, the man was helping vehicle traffic get around the area where ICE agents and observers had started to gather.
"The gentleman I was standing next to was focused on helping people who were coming into Nicollet Avenue understand that they needed to take it slow and helping them get through. The ICE agents approached us, told us to back up, back up. I'm not even sure why we were helping them, if anything. And I got on the snow bank, and next thing I knew, they shot him," Carlson said.

January 24, 2026 at 5:56 PM

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Democratic Women of South Orange County

@dwsoc.bsky.social

Video before it happens is showing this guy they shot in the head in Minneapolis was just standing there videoing them before and they got out to push him back and then murder him.

January 24, 2026 at 5:24 PM

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Hunter Walker

@hunterw.bsky.social

There's a telling bit in this horrific ICE shooting video. One agent is repeatedly hitting the man. It's a strange slap. He doesn't seem to be able to properly punch or even close his fist and yet is clearly trying to hit the guy. It indicates a toxic combo of aggression and total lack of training.

January 24, 2026 at 3:50 PM

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Phil Rocco

@philiprocco.bsky.social

It's long past time for state and local officials to begin arresting and charging ICE agents.

January 24, 2026 at 4:02 PM

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em cassel

@biketrouble.bsky.social

once again i am asking literally anyone in a position of power to do literally anything so that our neighbors stop getting fucking murdered in the street

January 24, 2026 at 3:58 PM

ransaysthis

@ransaysthis.bsky.social

January 24, 2026 at 12:44 AM

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BooBooKitty

@bbkittyfck.bsky.social

I’m not sure invading Greenland is a good idea.

Norman Rockwells painting called free speech

January 20, 2026 at 4:02 PM

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Lindsey Slater

@lindseyslatertv.bsky.social

Parents, heads up for Friday morning.
Schools will cancel if we get a COLD Weather Warning issued.
Nothing has been issued as of right now (Tuesday 1.20), but here
are the future wind chills. Good time to come up with a Plan B for
the kiddos just in case. #wiwx