Chris Meyer

January 24, 2026 at 1:34 PM Jeff Day Sources identify man shot as Alex Jeffrey Pretti of south Minneapolis The man fatally shot by federal officers in Minneapolis this morning has been identified as Alex Jeffrey Pretti, according to sources familiar with the investigation. Pretti, 37, has an address listed in south Minneapolis. At a news conference, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said the man who was shot was a 37-year-old white man with no serious criminal history and a record that showed some parking tickets. Law enforcement sources said Saturday their records show Pretti had no serious criminal history. O'Hara said the man was a “lawful gun owner” with a permit. Records show that Pretti attended the University of Minnesota. State records show Pretti was issued a nursing license in 2021, and it remains active through March 2026.

Alex Jeffrey Pretti, licensed nurse

I just responded to the scene at 26th and Nicollet shortly after the observer was shot. They teargassed and/or pepper sprayed Jana Shortal of KARE11 at the scene and she was being treated when I walked up. ICE have a fancy camera they are using to scan the faces of the crowd.

Star tribune early reporting on the fatal shooting by ice agents on 1/24

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Witnesses are being taken to Whipple.

From a lawyer friend: “They’re trying to keep local PD and BCA from getting statements and confiscating any phones with video.”

All those people downtown yesterday, no ICE involvement, and not one incident. ICE shows up in a neighborhood and now another Minnesotan is dead. It's pretty obvious who the violent outside agitators are.

Both the Uptown Mall and Open Parkways resolutions passed out of committee unanimously!

There is still more work to be done, but these are the first steps in making our park system greener, more climate friendly, dynamic, accessible!

Be sure to give your commissioners love for these strong votes!

Amended resolution approved in committee, will go forward to the full board.

Presentation on the open parkways pilot and toolkit. Testing the theory that people are capable of becoming less angry about a thing when they learn it isn't what they believed it to be.

The slippery slope is, start small, people love it, then the cat's out of the bag. Can't stop the spread.

Try this argument at your next park board meeting

It's stupid that the anti-accessibility/pro-car folks are spending so much of their time on this while most of us are trying to materially protect our neighbors, but they are.

Email MPRB commissioners that parks that are for people + green and growing things, not cars + pavement, by 5:30 today.

The Uptown Mall plan is back on the agenda at the park board next week. Mike Erlandson and pals are extremely energized over a loss of parking.

If you support park space over parking, emails to commissioners and in-person testimony would be helpful.

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AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

The official explanation they’re apparently going with here is that they aren’t 100% convinced that breathing soot and ozone is actually bad for you.

Oh hey if you're from MN 37A please give your rep a call and let her know that we don't need to "wait for the facts" when we can watch the fucking video, and no one's getting paid.

She won 57-43 last time. That's a surmountable gap.

First day back in the term, been up since 6am only to end up attending an 1.5 hour debate on a proposal for an increased parking variance to end the day. I’m doing just fine?! 🙂🙃

btw variance was denied. 🎶

1st motion - approve the amount of parking (48 new spots), but reject the park board shoving the parking lot up against Minnehaha Parkway - failed

2nd motion - approve the whole thing as designed - failed.

3rd motion - reject the whole thing - success!

Example of how bad infrastructure builds on itself.

Planning commissioner: can your employees just walk from the existing parking lot without building a whole new parking lot?

Park board guy: no way, our property has no sidewalk.

It's a new day on the Minneapolis Park Board.

This was once Park Avenue. Bring it back:

Such a good rep for the planning commission!!!!!! Thank you Jason Garcia!

tom olsen just elected park board president ! congrats @olsenforparks.bsky.social!!!

congrats to jason garcia getting the planning commission!! @jason4parks.bsky.social

plan diagrams of modeled building plans

building risk from dwelling fires, w/ dual stair in massive buildings being significantly higher than small single stair from 4-8 stories

this minnesota single stair study is fascinating in that how it shows how much *higher* risk is in status quo development - a massive double loaded corridor/dual stair building - v. single stair from 3-8 stories.

The man behind the fall of offshore wind David Stevenson has solar on his roof and drives a hybrid. How did he become the leader of the movement that helped Trump crush offshore wind farms?

How did an obscure libertarian activist named David Stevenson help bring America's offshore wind industry to a screeching halt? Here's the weird, previously untold tale, from @fieseler.bsky.social: www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

MnDOT should quantify how much poison will be spewed, how racially disparate the death & suffering, how many young brains they want to fry, how much cancer is acceptable, before settling on a course to rebuild or expand an urban interstate.

One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them

ward 11 is 90% homeowner. jamison whiting making the case to an older homeowning base for more developments and apartments like “you want your kids to move back to minneapolis, don’t you?” and pointing out the need to reduce property taxes

Met Council members oversee Twin Cities transit, but rarely ride it In the last year, just half of those appointed to the Metropolitan Council have taken advantage of the free Metro Transit rides that come with their job.

Fine, maybe suburban members of the Met Council don't need to ride transit all the time - but can't they just try it out? 8/17 never rode, 2 others rode only once - and only 2 are regular riders. How can they possibly lead a system they know so little about?

Yeah I never wear any particularly special gear. I do have studded tires, but have never felt the need for fat tires.