Day: January 29, 2026
Federal cops in Pretti shooting placed on leave; Pretti’s family retains attorneys from George Floyd case
One Border Patrol agent and one Customs and Border Protection officer were placed on leave for their involvement in the lethal shooting of anti-ICE activist Alex Pretti, according to ABC News.
Also on Wednesday, Pretti’s family retained attorneys who had helped prosecute an officer in the death of George Floyd.
‘It’s just amateurish. It’s terrible; it’s making the president look bad on policy.’
The developments come after President Donald Trump and local Democratic leaders worked together to ease the tension from the incident Saturday.
A Department of Homeland Security notification to Congress obtained by ABC News indicated that both of the officers discharged their firearms during the incident.
Sources said that putting the two on leave was “standard protocol” for an officer-involved shooting.
Steve Schleicher is representing Michael and Susan Pretti, the activist’s parents, pro bono according to a statement from the family. Schleicher is a partner at the Minneapolis-based firm Maslon and worked as special prosecutor under Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison in the trial against Derek Chauvin.
Micayla Pretti, the activist’s younger sister, hired her own attorney, Anthony Cotton of Kuchler & Cotton in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Democrats pounced on the death of the 37-year-old ICU nurse by resuming and amplifying their calls for the Trump administration to end all ICE operations and disband the agency. Others have called for Department of Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem to resign from the office.
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“What she’s done in Minnesota should be disqualifying. She should be out of a job,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said. “It’s just amateurish. It’s terrible; it’s making the president look bad on policy.”
On Tuesday, it was revealed that Pretti had gotten into a separate confrontation with federal agents about a week before his death. He had been tackled in that interaction and reportedly broke a rib when one agent leaned his knee on him. Pretti was released in that incident.
“That day, he thought he was going to die,” said a source who had spoken to Pretti.
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‘Submit or be murdered’: Ben & Jerry’s ice cream co-founder calls for ICE to be disbanded
The Ben of the famous Ben & Jerry’s ice cream company is calling for resistance against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and warned that the agency will kill anyone who doesn’t submit.
Ben Cohen cited two lethal shooting incidents involving federal immigration agents in a video message he posted to the X platform on Wednesday.
‘Submit or be murdered, video them and be murdered, protest and be murdered.’
Cohen said he was going to announce a special ice cream to memorialize the life of Renee Good but that the killing of Alex Pretti made him change his mind.
“We all live in Minneapolis now, because Minneapolis is only the beginning of what they have in mind. They’re coming for anyone, anywhere, who doesn’t submit,” Cohen said in the video.
“A brazen, arrogant, masked, militarized force loyal only to Trump and immune from prosecution. Submit or be murdered, video them and be murdered, protest and be murdered, or at least be placed on a list of domestic terrorists and investigated.”
“This is not freedom. … This is not America. This is sheer cruelty. This is the beginning of the end of the land of the free unless we make it the home of the brave,” he continued.
He went on to call for ICE to be defunded and disbanded, and closed by quoting the Bible and also Christian Marxist Cornel West.
Ben & Jerry’s has been vocal about supporting liberal causes for many years and used their ice cream platform for advocacy.
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In 2024, the company called for Americans to recognize that the “US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it” for the Fourth of July.
In 2021, the company said it would refuse to sell its ice cream in the “Occupied Palestinian Territory.”
In September, co-founder Jerry Greenfield stepped down from Ben & Jerry’s after accusing its parent company of stifling his left-wing speech.
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Judicial Watch Analysis: Maryland’s Proposed 2026 Congressional Map Replicates Unconstitutional Gerrymander Previously Struck Down in Judicial Watch Lawsuit
Proposed Map Is More Extreme Than the 2021 Plan Invalidated by Court; Targets Maryland’s Sole Republican District (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that a Democrat-proposed 2026 congressional redistricting plan for Maryland is in key respects identical to the unconstitutional gerrymander struck down in a prior Judicial Watch lawsuit—but is even more partisan and […]
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