Release Their Names
Release Their Names The Murder of Alex Pretti and the Crisis in Democracy Dina Doll Jan 28 ∙ Guest post Guest article by Dina Doll In Minneapolis, we watched a man die in front of the world, and yet we still do not know who pulled the trigger. Not by name. Not by badge. Not by face. Not by the accountability that is supposed to define a democratic society. On January 24, 2026, Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse and U.S. citizen, was shot and killed by federal immigration agents during a law enforcement operation in the streets of Minneapolis. He had done nothing more than record agents with his phone and was shoved and sprayed with bear spray when he tried to help a woman who had been shoved to the sidewalk. Witness footage shows him disarmed before he was shot multiple times. Yet even now, days later, the identities of the agents involved remain unnamed and unaccountable. That should alarm every person who believes our democracy still functions as a government of the people, by...