Braden Langly of Langley Outdoors Academy has posted a compelling analysis of what appears to be a combination of an unintentional discharge of Alex Pretti's Sig P320, combined with the predictable response, which lead to his shooting and death in Minneapolis on January 24, 2026. Langly does his analysis on YouTube. There does not appear to be a transcript.
To sum up the action as shown in numerous videos. Alex Pretti is involved in obstructing ICE officers from making an arrest, along with numerous other individuals. Pretti is in the street, and is actively aiding others in obstructing ICE. There are a couple of women working with Alex. ICE agents tell them to leave/get out of the way. Pretti does not do so. An ICE agent sprays him with pepper spray, and about 3-5 ICE agents attempt to place him in custody. Pretti stuggles, resisting arrest. 3-5 ICE agents are involved, taking Pretti to the ground, and attempting to gain control over Pretti. One of the agents, wearing a grey jacket and grey headgear, reaches into the scrum of struggling men, takes a pistol off of Pretti, which appears to have been in the small of Pretti's back. It is not clear if there is a holster. At this point, someone yells: Gun!Gun!Gun!, which is what agents are trained to do when a weapon is found during a struggle.
At the Gun!Gun!Gun! warning, at least one of the agents draws his handgun. The agent in grey starts to step away from the scrum, removing the pistol from the scene, a prudent move. He barely takes a step before a shot is fired. At least two of the agents recoil in response. Then several more shots are fired, which result in Pretti's death.
What Langly has found and shows, is it appears the first shot was from Pretti's Sig P320 as it was being removed from the scene.
In the detailed analysis by Langly, it is clear the slide on the Sig P320 moves back and forth as the agent in grey holds it down toward the ground, by his side, as he steps away. His hand appears to move, as if from recoil. There is some evidence of a bullet hitting the ground.
There should be evidence of an impact of a bullet at the crime scene, in the suspected location.This sort of situation has happened before in law enforcement. There is a struggle. A gun is found. A shot goes off. Officers, keyed to the edge in a highly dangerous situation, fire in response. Langley calls it "Contagious" gunfire. The officers were primed to a deadly threat. They are on the edge of responding with deadly force. Then the gunshot rings out. It is very close. People may even feel splatter or fragments from the bullet hit their feet or legs.
There will be much more investigation. The agent in grey will be questioned. He probably has already written an after action statement. The truth will come out.
It is to be hoped the crime scene is preserved. This is not easy to do when the local police will not assist, the governor and the mayor are telling the proto-insurgents to resist, and the incident occurs in an area where the proto-insurgents are attempting to exert control.
In some cases, confederates of offenders have removed evidence from the scene. Several cartridge cases should be at the scene to be analyzed in a crime laboratory. The local police have been forbidden to assist, so it will have to be at a federal lab.
There are also peculiar things which can happen, and have happened at other crime scenes. A cartridge case may become embedded in a boot tread or vehicle tread, if the crime scene is not very carefully controlled.
A tragedy composed of a series of unfortunate events, triggered by illegal interference with ICE agents, appears to be the most likely explanation of what resulted in Alex Pretti's death.
©2026 by Dean Weingarten: Permission to share is granted when this notice and link are included.
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Dean - From - David Watson , having viewed your piece on JPFO --
I've been a supporter of the JPFO for years, but today's JPFO post, not only are you seeming to cheer the murder of an American nurse simply exercising his 1st and 2nd Amendment rights against the tyrannical dictatorship is full of lies.
Examples of some of your lies in this article:
> "Alex Pretti is involved in obstructing ICE officers from making an arrest"
Lie!
> "Pretti is in the street, and is actively aiding others in obstructing ICE."
Another lie!
> "Pretti stuggles, resisting arrest."
Another lie!
> "The local police have been forbidden to assist"
Yes, forbidden by the Trump regime's Department of Injustice! Not the mayor or governor as you snidely implied.
> "triggered by illegal interference with ICE agents"
Another lie!
Why does the JPFO, of all people, support this tyrannical dictatorship that is trying to turn America into Nazi Germany?
Have you forgotten the words of the famous poem "First They Came..." by Martin Niemöller?
Shame. You should be ashamed of yourself! Turn in your JPFO card.
In Amerikkka today, everyone who is brown, black, or has an accent, including women and children, are getting pulled over by Trump's masked Gestapo gunmen screaming "Papierien, bitte!" ("Show me your papers!") or more often, just dragged out of their car or off the street, kidnapped, bloodied, brutalized, and then if and when Trump's Gestapo finally bothers to look at their papers (some of them had their U.S. passport in their pocket), the Gestapo just throws them out of a car into the snow.
Sometimes the Gestapo kills them, even knowing that they're innocent U.S. citizens. They've killed about 20 Americans this month, not just the two that are in the news. There have only been three homicides in Minneapolis this year, and 2/3 of them (2 out of 3) were committed by ICE.
Shame. You should be ashamed of yourself. Turn in your JPFO card.
Obviously you've forgotten the words of the famous poem "First They Came..." by Martin Niemöller,
because in America, first they came for the immigrants, then they came for the brown people, then they came for the black people, then they came for everyone with an accent, then they came for people protesting their Gestapo,
and next Trump will come for the Jews.
I thought "Never again" meant "Never Again," not "Oh, Gestapo tactics are ok as long as the tyrannical dictator is, for now, only oppressing brown people, black people, Muslims, gays, lesbians, immigrants, Native Americans, people with an accent, and trans people, but he hasn't gotten around to persecuting Jews yet so I don't care." That's your attitude.
You would do well to remember the words of the famous poem "First They Came..." by Martin Niemöller:
"First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me."
Shame. You should be ashamed of yourself. Turn in your JPFO card.
-David
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