A user from r/Minneapolis was among the first to share footage of federal agents shooting Alex Pretti. Following his death, subreddits about football, cats, and embroidery have all rallied against ICE.

On Saturday morning, a Reddit user who has posted about living in Minneapolis for years shared a video on the city’s subreddit, r/Minneapolis, with the title “Another ICE murder in front of Glam Doll Donuts.”

The 40-second clip showed a group of federal agents tackling 37-year-old Alex Pretti to the ground and beating him. About 20 seconds in, one of them begins shooting Pretti. At least 10 gunshots go off, from multiple agents, and a person can be heard yelling “Did they fucking kill that guy? Are you fucking kidding me dude? Not again.” (The agents who fired on Pretti have not been charged, nor has ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who shot and killed Minneapolis resident Renee Nicole Good on January 7. They have been moved to “other locations,” according to CBP official Greg Bovino.)

The video was upvoted more than 60,000 times, reaching the top of Reddit’s homepage.

  • ByteOnBikesOP
    481·
    16 hours ago

    I share this because with Tiktok now in Trump territory, we have lost a lot of social media platforms to government censorship.

    • aramis87@fedia.io
      52·
      15 hours ago

      Don’t count on reddit being much better. spez explicitly protected r/TD multiple times and is very much a follower with a desire to be in the “big” techbro leagues, including Nazi affiliation.

      • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
        5·
        5 hours ago

        Yeah and reddit will remove links to lemmy/piefed/etc… on its platform. I dont think they should be the example some people want.

        I personally think reddit is the designated place the elite want the left leaning individuals to go to. Its much easier to track literally all up/downvotes, they ditched their old interface and now you get sponsored links, etc…etc… Theres a lot of gaslighting there. At least here, we can see the mod actions and not get “shadowbanned”.

        • BurgerBaron@piefed.socialEnglish
          113·
          13 hours ago

          That’s an oft parroted line yes. Back in the day (pre-2015 for clarification) subreddit mods could add you as a mod without your consent. That’s what happened.

          Not that this excuses reddit for hosting child porn to begin with.

            • BurgerBaron@piefed.socialEnglish
              72·
              12 hours ago

              spez is shit enough without fabricating more shit. Being accurate is worse anyways: He was admin of jailbait. Still had admin access rights before his official return too.

              • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
                7·
                11 hours ago

                Spez is bad enough that he doesn’t need people defending him. It was his site at the time and it was set up as he liked it.

                Don’t act like it was reluctant or against his will. It was neither.

      • BurgerBaron@piefed.socialEnglish
        8·
        13 hours ago

        Everyone knows /r/conservative is Russian operated and full of alts and/or bots at this point yeah? Not just that one sub, but it’s most well known example for my point.

        spez knows this too I’m sure. So, he’s complicit.

  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
    291·
    15 hours ago

    Local subs are by far the best part of Reddit and really the only reason I never quit the site. There is a huge amount of important organizing happening on them right now.

    Wish we could get them to fire here but never quite hit the critical mass needed.