He Witnessed an Earlier Shooting. Feds Arrested Him at the Scene of Alex Pretti's Killing

[douglas9]

Less than 40 minutes after federal immigration agents shot and killed 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti on Nicollet Avenue in south Minneapolis, Clayton Kelly was thrown face-first onto the sidewalk, tasting snow and street grime as a federal agent’s knee drove into his back.

The incident, a video of which The Intercept reviewed and corroborated with an independent eyewitness, occurred not long after Kelly and his wife arrived in the area where Pretti was killed. With protesters amassing and agents from Customs and Border Protection as well as Immigration and Customs Enforcement flooding the area, the couple told The Intercept, they just wanted to observe the scene.

“All of a sudden,” Kelly said, a federal agent “started running toward me, pointing and yelling, ‘That’s him. Get him.’”

Ten days earlier, Kelly had watched as an immigration agent shot Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in the leg during a federal enforcement action in north Minneapolis. As Kelly told the local outlet Sahan Journal, an SUV with police lights chased another vehicle, and then, “They went into a house. … I heard two shots before the area was just being swarmed by ICE immediately.” Sosa-Celis was injured — and Kelly’s account contradicted the official narrative released by the Department of Homeland Security.

https://theintercept.com/2026/01/31/minneapolis-protester-witness-killing-alex-pretti/

[biophile]

1. Targeting whistleblowers is standard practice with authoritarian regimes

They are following the playbook

[struggle4progress]

2. Witness intimidation

[UpInArms]

3. they are using facial recognition software to track people

I am certain they targeted Alex

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. echoes of Ferguson

[2naSalit]

5. Only worse.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. Worse how?

[2naSalit]

7. That the goons...

Are able to use all this technology to identify you before they confront you, they are breaking into cars and homes en masse everyday as well as killing people in the streets. I just feel it's bigger and nastier in this case.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. I was talking specifically about the activists who died under suspicious circumstances in the 3-4 years after the

Ferguson protests.

[2naSalit]

9. Yeah...

And that's bound to be worse when all the dust settles from this nightmare.

[malaise]

10. K & R for

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