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The killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis has left the country torn between grief and the usual political theater, but hardworking Americans deserve straight talk instead of sanctimony. Pretti, a 37-year-old VA intensive care nurse, was shot multiple times by federal Border Patrol agents during an enforcement operation in Minneapolis on January 24, 2026 — a chaotic episode that has provoked protests and national outrage.
Video that has circulated since the shooting raises serious questions about the initial government narrative: footage shows Pretti holding what appears to be a phone while he was tackled, and subsequently a firearm was removed from his waistband, prompting fierce disputes over what actually happened in those crucial seconds. His family and colleagues insist he was trying to help, while others point to tactical errors he made that put him in harm’s way.
The Biden DOJ has now opened a federal civil-rights probe into the incident and handed the matter to the FBI, underscoring that this is not a simple local story but one that will be litigated and debated in Washington. Conservatives must demand that the investigation be thorough, transparent, and not turned into yet another partisan cover-up or a pretext for reflexive media martyr-making.
Meanwhile, a lot of the reaction from elites and online virtue-signalers follows the predictable script: instant sanctification, “that could be me” sob stories, and the parade of assumptions that lull a nation into moral posturing instead of clear thinking. Veteran conservative voices like Greg Kelly called out this crowd for equating sympathy with wisdom and for ignoring the reality that ordinary people sometimes make dangerous, ill-advised choices in volatile situations.
That doesn’t mean federal agents get a free pass — any unjustified use of lethal force must be punished and those responsible held to the fullest extent of the law — but it does mean conservatives should resist the fashionable reflex to shrink every complex incident into a hashtag and an identity narrative. We can and should stand for law, order, and the presumption of innocence for agents until facts say otherwise, while also insisting on accountability if those facts show misconduct.
Patriots who love this country want both truth and justice, not performative grief or sloppy single-sided storytelling by people who profit from division. The family of the victim, local residents, and the officers involved all deserve an investigation that respects evidence, protects the rule of law, and refuses to let political theater drown out the facts. Only then can the nation move forward without collapsing into the same cycles of outrage and expedient narratives that have hollowed out public discourse for years.
