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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026

Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."

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cleopatrascat.bsky.social @cleopatrascat.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Let Jessie explain what’s going on. People need to start paying attention. ICE is being used as a national police force.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

What Would Jesus [Not] Do?

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Jeffries: We are not going to be lectured by anyone on the other side of the aisle about fiscal responsibility when the bill that you just passed is the most fiscally irresponsible piece of legislation ever…

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

What he said: 💯 🎯

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/11/2025

Obama: "The weird videos of a US president with a crown on his head flying a fighter jet & dumping poop on American citizens - that's not even worth booing about. Because all of that is a distraction from the fact that your situation, your life has not gotten better. They do it so you won't notice"

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

trickle down economics trickle down economic trickle down economi trickle down econom trickle down econo trickle down econ trickle down eco trickle down ec trickle down e trickle down trickle dow trickle do trickle d trickle trickl trick

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

The day clownish Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton files a ridiculous, performative lawsuit against Tylenol seems a good day to re-post this:

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NPR @npr.org · 28/10/2025

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

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'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 85th day out of the last 97. 12 days of work in over 3 months. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

🫢 😳 😧 🤢 🤮 😡 I have an even worse feeling about THIS:

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/10/2025

If your savings account can’t buy you a yacht, maybe stop voting like it can.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Nothing’s funny anymore, but “23% of Americans yearn for the White House East Wing to be demolished” is sort of funny.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23/10/2025

Wait! So Trump lied about the East Wing not being touched—and now about the ballroom price tag too? The cost suddenly ballooned to $300 million.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23/10/2025

This video attempts to answer the question everyone is asking: “Can a president remodel or demolish the White House? Technically no.” Kind of late now. Trump already turned a National Historic Landmark into a pile of rubble.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/10/2025

Adelita Grijalva: "There is so much that cannot be done until I'm sworn in. So every moment that passes that I'm not able to provide constituent services or be a voice for Arizona, I cannot bring the issues forward that they send me here to do."

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Honestly I think they could just keep demolishing the White House bit by bit until it was completely gone and no one would even stop them

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Adam Mockler @adammockler.com · 22/10/2025

New video: "MAGA Host Realizes His OWN PARTY HATES HIM" click below to WATCH👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXt8sYzluR4

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MAGA Host Realizes His OWN PARTY HATES HIM

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

If I were ever elected president, the first thing I’d do is take a sledgehammer to that ballroom.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

whoever did this little bit of magnificence, take a bow

satire: a spirit halloween costume that’s a “violent antifa terrorist” and includes:
- inflatable frog suit
- cape
- pepper spray filter
- a thirst for the blood of the innocent
- air pump

batteries and Molotov cocktails not included

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Kathy Griffin @kathygriffin.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

We the people can save the United States. 1) Protests. He feels humiliated when we take to the streets. 2) Hit them in their wallets. When enough people wanted to send a real message about Jimmy Kimmel & canceled their subscriptions to Disney, Hulu & ESPN, it worked! What else has yielded results?

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2025

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

1 transgender shooter GOP: "We must institutionalize all transgenders!" 47,209 white male shooters GOP: "This is the cost of freedom."

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 29/09/2025

“Land of Hope and Dreams” live at the New York Film Festival. September 28, 2025. 🎥: Rob DeMartin

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“Land of Hope and Dreams” (Live at NYFF)

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Congrats to team Europe for winning the Ryder Cup. Historic and well deserved. Our fans were disgraceful. An embarrassment to the US team and the game of golf. No class, dignity or grace…just like their cult leader in the White House.

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cleopatrascat.bsky.social @cleopatrascat.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Trump has made farmers the new welfare queens.

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Adam Mockler @adammockler.com · 28/09/2025

New video: "Conservative's "Just Having Fun" Defense for Trump Gets DESTROYED" click below to WATCH👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zuk1hOp91g

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Conservative's "Just Having Fun" Defense for Trump Gets DESTROYED

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Adam Mockler @adammockler.com · 28/09/2025

New video: "Proving Trump is WEAPONIZING the Government #new #fyp #politics" click below to WATCH👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=QslGUSAgFwk

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Proving Trump is WEAPONIZING the Government #new #fyp #politics

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I'm not surprised by the lengths they are willing to go to stop us from seeing the Epstein Files. Just look at how far they were willing to go to stop us from ever hearing from Jeffrey Epstein again.

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Trump tonight appears to have pushed the false "medbed" conspiracy theory, which has spread in the far-right internet over the years. www.yahoo.com/news/qanon-c...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2025

Raskin to Patel: "In a few short months, how did you go from being a crusader for accountability and transparency with the Epstein files to being part of the conspiracy and coverup? The answer is simple. You said it yourself -- because of who is on that list."

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Was Amelia Earhart carrying the Epstein files on that plane?

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Remember when Trump put out pro-Freedom of Speech ads 🤡🤡🤡 Jimmy has not returned in all markets so we’re calling for protests at Nexstar and Sinclair Corporate locations *this* Friday, September 26th nationwide! 👉 friendseverywhere.network #cancelsinclair #cancelnexstar #boycott #jimmykimmel

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/09/2025

A statue depicting President Trump and the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein briefly appeared Tuesday on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., with the title, “Best Friends Forever,” and included lines from Trump’s birthday message to Epstein.

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A Statue of Trump and Epstein Holding Hands Briefly Appears on the National Mall

The United States Park Police said it had removed the statue, which included lines from President Trump’s birthday message to Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased sex offender.

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cleopatrascat.bsky.social @cleopatrascat.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Looks like my local ABC station is SINCLAIR..so no Jimmy. I am boycotting any company supporting Sinclair. So far..Stanley Steamer, Nissan, WAWA and the political assclown advertising.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I absolutely want their name and contact info that person shouldn’t buy their own beer for the rest of their life.

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