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Alex Pretti had confrontation with ICE officers a week before fatal shooting: report
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2026
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While Pretti’s name was known to federal agents, according to the CNN source, it is unclear if the new intake form was used to share his information.
“We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous,” Homan said.
Homan was sent to Minneapolis Tuesday by the president in an apparent effort to calm tensions in the state.
One video, taken in Maine and shared on social media last Friday, showed a federal agent recording a license plate of a woman watching their operations and telling her: “We have a nice little database and now you are considered a domestic terrorist.”
"There is NO database of ‘domestic terrorists’ run by DHS. We do of course monitor and investigate and refer all threats, assaults and obstruction of our officers to the appropriate law enforcement. Obstructing and assaulting law enforcement is a felony and a federal crime,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told CNN.
Way to side step the fucking point, Trish.
"We don't run the database. We just collect data that gets added to it and then use that database we helped create to target Americans who make the mistake of thinking their rights matter... It's run by Palantir."
we’re going to make them famous
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“We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous,” Homan said.
Wow. That is a direct threat to kill protesters. That's when we hear their names is when ICE kills them.
And yet when we create a database of ICE agents, it's terrorism... Hmm...
"Had a confrontation" -> was unlawfully attacked.
Let this be motive. Let one of the previous officers have been involved in the murder.
Sources, eh...
Man who volunteered to observe ICE in action has had interactions with ICE while doing so. More news at 6
Didn’t DHS deny this?