He Was Holding a Phone, Not a Gun, But Feds Insist Protester Killed Wanted To “Massacre Law Enforcement”
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3.0 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
As more videos are released of the latest ICE killing of 37 year old Alex Pretti, dueling narratives have arisen between state and federal officials. Amy and T.J. discuss what the videos clearly show versus what the Feds continue to claim happened Saturday morning. Pretti’s family is also speaking out about their son, who was a Minneapolis ICU nurse at a VA hospital. Meantime a federal judge has issued a gag order, barring DHS rom altering or destroying evidence connected to Pretti's killing.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:14.0 | Here that, folks. |
| 0:14.9 | It is Sunday, January 25th, hopping on now to give you the latest developments, |
| 0:19.6 | and there have been plenty out of |
| 0:21.8 | Minneapolis today with that welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. |
| 0:25.6 | Robes a lot of developing news out of Minneapolis. |
| 0:30.2 | Help me here. |
| 0:31.7 | Was there any of it that was positive that came out that made us feel like the temperature |
| 0:35.9 | was coming down? |
| 0:37.5 | No. |
| 0:38.0 | Did you see anything? |
| 0:38.6 | No. |
| 0:39.0 | In fact, I see both sides digging in as we're starting to learn more about the 37-year-old |
| 0:44.8 | man who was killed by ICE agents. |
| 0:47.3 | We're hearing a narrative from his family and his friends and his coworkers. |
| 0:51.9 | And then we're hearing from the Department of Homeland Security |
| 0:54.9 | using very incendiary language to describe a man that is described completely differently, in |
| 1:01.9 | fact, the opposite way when you talk to people who knew him, or you talk about the narrative that |
| 1:07.0 | the government is giving. And so here are your headlines today. |
| 1:15.2 | First of all, yes, there are more videos, more angles that have come out, but the interpretation of that video continues to be split for the most part along. |
| 1:20.3 | You could argue party lines between the administration and between some of the Minnesota |
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