From Fox News: The skirmish that led to Saturday’s fatal shooting of an agitator by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis and the response that followed were driven by a complex network of far-left organizations with a wide range of causes, a Fox News Digital investigation found.
A coordinated web of encrypted chats, street alerts and tracking of ICE “Abductors” in a sophisticated database reviewed by Fox News Digital shows that agitators were already mobilized at the scene where 37-year-old Alex Pretti was killed minutes before any shots were fired.
ICE and Border Patrol agents were there to arrest an illegal immigrant criminal, and Pretti and others were there, outside a donut shop, to meet them as part of a strategic pattern of organized interference with law enforcement operations.
The network of far-left cells usedPretti’s death to organize nationwide protests, showcasing their coordinated logistics and messaging.
The network uses short video clips and emojis to incite confrontations with authorities.
“This level of engineered chaos is unique to Minneapolis. It is the direct consequence of far left agitators, working with local authorities,” Vice President JD Vance observed in a Sunday post on X.
This level of engineered chaos is unique to Minneapolis. It is the direct consequence of far left agitators, working with local authorities.
— JD Vance (@JDVance) January 25, 2026
Encrypted Signal messages reviewed by Fox News Digital show that anti-ICE “rapid responders” track, broadcast and call for “backup” as federal agents perform their duties.
“Local ‘rapid responders’ made at least 26 entries into a database called ‘MN ICE Plates’ in the critical hours before and after the killing, documenting the license plate numbers and details of alleged ICE vehicles they claimed to see around Nicollet Avenue,” Fox News reported.
Row 344 read, “At the nicollet [sic] murder,” recording a black Jeep Wagoneer potentially containing agents who were allegedly “involved in shooting.”
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