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18. The murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti have yet to be properly investigated, no one has been held accountable.
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 09:16 PM
11 hrs ago

The Atlantic - "Six months after (Renee Good) and Alex Pretti were shot on the streets of Minneapolis, little has come of the probes into their killings."

"Nearly six months have passed since federal officers shot and killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti on the streets of Minneapolis. No one has been arrested, the Trump administration has provided no reason to believe that any serious investigation is taking place, and federal officials continue to stonewall state and local investigators in Minnesota."

"This inaction was predictable. The day after Good’s death, Vice President Vance insisted at a press conference that the agent who shot her would face no criminal charges. 'That guy is protected by absolute immunity,' Vance told reporters. 'He was doing his job.' Soon, Stephen Miller doubled down on the message, announcing 'to all ICE officers' that 'you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties.' Federal agents apparently received the message: The next day, an ICE agent fired a gun into a Minneapolis home, wounding a Venezuelan immigrant, Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis. The week after that, Pretti was killed outside a doughnut shop. The Department of Homeland Security called him a 'domestic terrorist' and said that the officers who shot him had acted in self-defense."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/alex-pretti-renee-good-accountability/687792/

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... Faux pas 12 hrs ago #1
They left him in the street for five hours? yardwork 12 hrs ago #2
Yes, sheshe2 11 hrs ago #4
This is a nightmare. yardwork 11 hrs ago #15
I am right there with you Grim Chieftain 9 hrs ago #32
Monsters MustLoveBeagles 11 hrs ago #3
Monsters UpInArms 11 hrs ago #6
And they get away with all of it Grim Chieftain 9 hrs ago #33
I think they just yell, "weapon," now, whether they see one or not Bayard 9 hrs ago #35
Bull shit SuzyandPuffpuff 11 hrs ago #5
Their time is gonna come BeneteauBum 11 hrs ago #7
Joan Sebastian Guerrero, 26, was not the target of the warrant agents were trying to execute, federal officials said. chowder66 11 hrs ago #8
I don't give what "they" say any credence. There is no one in this government that deserves credence. erronis 11 hrs ago #11
I saw that too! sheshe2 11 hrs ago #12
That's the latest excuse that they are using after wnylib 10 hrs ago #24
Depraved Solly Mack 11 hrs ago #9
Trump is murdering Americans in the street Johonny 11 hrs ago #10
Well, he did say he could shoot somebody on fifth ave and not LisaL 11 hrs ago #14
Somebody make it stop hookaleft 11 hrs ago #13
My grand girls love Bluey and this is beyond tragic mcar 11 hrs ago #16
People of Maine will not put up with this BS infullview 11 hrs ago #17
The murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti have yet to be properly investigated, no one has been held accountable. sop 11 hrs ago #18
Fuck JD Vance! llmart 10 hrs ago #25
Just god awful evil. efhmc 11 hrs ago #19
I am a lily white Mainah MaineNative 10 hrs ago #20
Organized crime FuzzyRabbit 10 hrs ago #21
It's what the racketeering laws were written for Walleye 9 hrs ago #30
Organized crime funded by the taxpayers. Trump's America. OGBuzz 9 hrs ago #36
We must abolish ICE. WhiskeyGrinder 10 hrs ago #22
The system, the people that unleashed them... sheshe2 10 hrs ago #26
not just abolish. arrest all ice officers that served while Trump was in office lapfog_1 9 hrs ago #28
That threat needs to be out there loud and strong. Maybe KPN 9 hrs ago #34
... littlemissmartypants 10 hrs ago #23
I do not know why these groups of killers are not now referred to as 'Murder Squads'. That is what they are. Scalded Nun 9 hrs ago #27
You are absolutely right. sheshe2 8 hrs ago #38
What kind of person (?)... BurnDoubt 9 hrs ago #29
Where is senator concerned? fujiyamasan 9 hrs ago #31
What few Democratic Senators are brushing all this aside? sheshe2 8 hrs ago #40
It was mainly Fetterman I had in mind fujiyamasan 8 hrs ago #41
MONSTERS. GiqueCee 9 hrs ago #37
... BlueWaveNeverEnd 8 hrs ago #39
When are they gonna start shooting members of the wrong political party? And by that I don't mean Democrats. LeftInTX 8 hrs ago #42
Kick dalton99a 8 hrs ago #43
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