Disinformation Agent: Democrat Rep Shows AI-Generated Image of Alex Pretti Shooting in Hearing

February 11, 2026

Democrats never learn. Last month, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) was widely mocked for displaying an AI-generated image featuring a headless ICE agent during a speech on the Senate floor.

Now Democrat Rep. Bennie Thompson (Miss.) has used the very same AI-generated image during a public hearing while attacking federal immigration operations.

From Breitbart: Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) displayed a poster of an AI-generated image falsely depicting the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in which one AI-created federal agent is clearly missing a head during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Tuesday.

“CBP personnel shot Alex Pretti — and he was face down on Minneapolis’s sidewalk — killing him in broad daylight,” Thompson said as the fake, AI-generated image was displayed behind him while he attacked the Trump administration’s U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Ironically, the Democrat congressman went on to claim that U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem “gaslit the public” and “made up a demonstrably false story about Mr. Pretti” as the fake photo remained showcased behind him.

However, one would assume that Thompson, the ranking member of the committee, should have known better, given that Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) recently faced heavy backlash for displaying the same fake, AI-generated image while delivering remarks on the Senate floor late last month.

Thompson is now being blasted for using the same fake image to slam DHS.

🚨 In a Homeland Security Committee hearing with ICE Director Todd Lyons, Rep. Bennie Thompson is using the AI generated image of Alex Pretti’s death in which a Border Patrol agent doesn’t have a head.

Truly unbelievable. pic.twitter.com/SByFRRPYtH

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) February 10, 2026

Rep. Bennie Thompson says Greg Bovino’s dresses in Nazi attire, and enjoys spraying people with tear gas. Then displays an obvious AI pic of Pretti being shot.

This needs to be called out and he needs to go pic.twitter.com/VLk8L7t3AB

— Sara Rose 🇺🇸🌹 (@saras76) February 10, 2026

DISINFORMATION ALERT: Democrat Rep. Bennie Thompson is pushing fake AI slop at the House Homeland Security Committee.

This is not a real image of Alex Pretti. pic.twitter.com/leFQQuHfqw

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) February 10, 2026

Durbin still has his video on his X page, which has been slapped with a Community Notes rebuke over the fake image.

I am on the Senate floor to condemn the killing of U.S. citizens at the hands of federal immigration officers and to demand the Trump Administration take accountability for its actions. https://t.co/kd9HXi1rQN

— Senator Dick Durbin (@SenatorDurbin) January 28, 2026