Episode 120 -- The Murder of Alex Pretti
In Bed With The Right
Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan
4.8 • 662 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
On January 24, 2026, Alex Pretti, an intensive care nurse at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, was shot and killed by Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez in Minneapolis. In this episode, Moira and Adrian delve into questions of gender, solidarity, whiteness and the MAGA imagination as they pertain to the murder and the reaction across media and society.
Please note: We briefly mention the comparison sometimes made with the Nazi-era Gestapo. If this is a comparison that interests you, Moira and Adrian recorded an emergency episode on that group, its history, and the use of comparing it to ICE for our Patreon. You can find it here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-119-149640913
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Adrian Dobb. |
| 0:08.8 | And I'm Weirondon. |
| 0:10.0 | Whether we like it or not, we're in bed with the right. |
| 0:14.4 | So, Adrian, just a couple of weeks ago, we did an episode together on the death of René Good, the Minneapolis woman who was shot three times by ICE agent Jonathan Ross, |
| 0:24.2 | the sort of gender ideology that was revealed both in her murder itself and also in the rights reaction to her death and the viral video of her killing. |
| 0:34.2 | And we're coming back to your feed today to discuss yet another murder in Minneapolis and its aftermath. |
| 0:40.1 | So today we're going to be talking about the killing of Alex Pretty, another white Minneapolis resident, another 37-year-old, and another person who confronted ICE officers kidnapping harassment and occupation operations in his home city with a kind of principled opposition |
| 0:55.8 | and who paid for that principle with his life. Yeah, as long as ICE keeps murdering, people |
| 1:02.1 | will keep making these episodes. And right now, as of a few days ago, ICE is responsible for |
| 1:07.5 | fully two-thirds of the homicides in the Minneapolis area. Let that sink in. |
| 1:13.3 | A government agency is in fact responsible for most of the crime in the city. |
| 1:19.8 | Adrienne, I think maybe we should just set the scene a little. What happened to Alex Prattie? |
| 1:24.7 | So Alex Prattie was a 37-year-old nurse at the VA at the Veterans Affairs |
| 1:30.1 | Hospital and it was an active participant in Ice Watch and had apparently had interactions with |
| 1:37.9 | the feds before, which will I'm sure come up in the rights reaction to it. What happened was that |
| 1:43.6 | someone else got thrown to the ground by ice. |
| 1:46.4 | Alex Pretty decided to try and help her up. |
| 1:50.0 | He was then either thrown to the ground or already shot. |
| 1:53.4 | A gun of some sort was taken from him. |
| 1:56.0 | And after that, I forget the number of shots. |
| 1:58.2 | Ten shots in five seconds. |
| 2:00.1 | Right. |
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