The Killing of Alex Pretti
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🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
On January 24, 2026, Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota shot and killed Alex Pretti.
Video showing an interaction prior to the shooting of Alex Pretti from Newsweek: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gYEetmWjGbc
Videos showing the view from both sides of the street of the Alex Pretti shooting from the Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15494997/alex-jeffrey-pretti-minneapolis-shooting-videos.html
Video showing the view from a nearby car of the Alex Pretti shooting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZM107PcZ5s
Video showing attempts to render aid to Alex Pretti from the Associated Press: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czNc37xuzCs
Moment-by-moment analysis of the shooting from the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010668660/new-video-analysis-reveals-flawed-and-fatal-decisions-in-shooting-of-pretti.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HlA.OrrM.YBqdh91QeguN
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Anya, and today we're going to talk about a controversial shooting in Minneapolis. |
| 0:06.5 | Content warning this episode contains discussion of murder and violence. |
| 0:12.1 | So today we are going to talk about the January 24th, 26th shooting of Alex Preddy in Minneapolis, Minnesota by members of Border Patrol. |
| 0:27.9 | To give some background on Preddy, he lived in Minneapolis. |
| 0:35.0 | He graduated from the University of Minnesota. He was an intensive care |
| 0:41.4 | unit nurse with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. And he was 37 years old. |
| 0:48.8 | And before we get into this, I think it's important not only to say what we are going to talk about, but what |
| 0:56.1 | we're not going to talk about. This has become very politicized with people using it to argue |
| 1:06.5 | different points of view or to make arguments about larger things going on within this |
| 1:15.0 | country. And I think since we're not a political podcast, we're a true crime podcast. I think it makes |
| 1:23.9 | sense for us just to focus on the shooting itself. I concur. I think it makes sense for us just to focus on the shooting itself. |
| 1:28.9 | I concur. |
| 1:30.5 | I think that is important. |
| 1:32.9 | I don't, I don't, we don't think that you log in or, you know, |
| 1:36.4 | click on the show to hear our political takes. |
| 1:38.8 | So we're not going to, we're going to spare you from that. |
| 1:41.3 | But at the same time, this is an important story, and we feel like it is necessary to talk about it right now. |
| 1:50.0 | And we're going to. |
| 1:52.4 | So we'll keep it as free from our own political opinions as possible. |
| 1:59.3 | But we, I mean, just note that it is an inherently politicized |
| 2:03.7 | issue at this point. And that's unfortunate because I personally feel like, regardless of whatever |
| 2:09.8 | your feelings are about politics, there's reality and there's what you can see. And, you know, that shouldn't shift based on your perception of your tribe or your team doing one thing or another. |
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