Date: January 26th, 2026 8:51 AM
Author: chestnut dog poop knife
Pretti was a pawn sent to be sacrificed, cons would say.
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This is what I saw in an encrypted ICE Watch group on Signal:
🧊 7:15 AM CT/8:15 AM ET -- "Good Morning all. We are 7 days and 5 days into the federal occupation of our city."
🧊 8:50 AM CT/9:50 ET -- "Willow" shares a video from inside Glam Doll Donuts on Nicollet Avenue of two federal agents trying to enter the donut shop, before quickly turning around and returning to their maroon Dodge Durango. Someone filming the video says: "Get out of here!"
🧊 8:53 AM CT/9:53 AM ET -- A second Signal user, "Salacious B. Crumb," escalated the alert, summoning additional responders to Nicollet Avenue and citing the Dodge Durango and agents.
"Backup needed at the Black Forest Inn parking lot on Nicollet Ave just south of 26th Street," the message read.
"Multiple vehicles with many agents appear to be staging there," the alert continued. "One confirmed ICE vehicle seen was a maroon Dodge Durango [plate number], but it has driven away northbound on Nicollet."
🧊 9:05 AM CT/10:05 AM ET -- Video of the scene shows that as Pretti stepped into the middle of Nicollet Avenue to direct traffic, fellow agitators could be heard blowing whistles to alert locals that ICE officers were around. Soon after, Pretti ended up in a street confrontation with CBP agents, across the street from Glam Doll Donuts. That's when bullets went off and Pretti was tragically killed.
🧊 9:18 AM CT/10:18 AM ET -- The Signal network erupted. Using a red phone emoji to signal an all-points alert, a message blasted out: "☎️ easy. URGENT: observers urgently requested at glam doll donuts @ 26th & nicollet [sic]. an observer has been shot by ice, unknown condition, emts [emergency medical technicians] present, please be safe. EDIT: medics requested to join perimeter in case agents start gassing. be aware there are many agents and mpd [Minneapolis Police Department] officers present."
🧊 According to these messages shared in the encrypted Signal chat, activists were already mobilized BEFORE any shots were fired—tracking, broadcasting and summoning people to Nicollet Avenue with one objective: to obstruct the work of federal agents.
https://x.com/AsraNomani/status/2015730430792589681
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5826240&forum_id=2/#49619628)