The Michael Knowles Show
Ep. 1898 - The Truth About The Man Killed By ICE In Minneapolis
26 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Everybody is feverishly debating the angles, the timing, if and when he was disarmed, if and when he had the right to carry a gun in that moment. Everybody seems to be missing the point. We will get into the real crux of the matter, as well as, I think, the million dollar question that people are ignoring. Why is this only happening in Minneapolis? Why is this always happening in Minneapolis?
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Chapter 2: What happened during the recent ICE incident in Minneapolis?
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Chapter 3: Why is Minneapolis a focal point for law enforcement conflicts?
You're probably wondering, Michael, why are you in that room instead of in your beautiful studio? Well, because the snowpocalypse has hit Nashville, as it's probably hit many of you. The Daily Wire was totally shut down, and I usually think they're being babies about this, and I yell at them, and I say they should go into the office. It is Mad Max out there, man. It is crazy.
Are there any trees left standing in Nashville? I'm not so sure. So I was forced home. Which is, okay, I've done shows from home before. Then the power goes out. So I say, alright, you know what I can do? I can film the show on my cell phone. But then, maybe it's because I was sledding with the little boys yesterday, maybe, I don't know why, I appear to have contracted bubonic plague.
Which is why my voice sounds even deeper and more sultry than usual. So I will be doing this show as Barry White because we cannot miss it, because there's another left-wing riot in Minneapolis, because another activist went out and got himself shot by a cop, and everybody is misrepresenting it, including some people on the right, but mostly it's coming from the left. What is really going on?
First of all, just want to lay my cards on the table. I think that anybody who is counter signaling law enforcement right now is useless, just doesn't get it. Any of the people, forget about the left, they want to overthrow the whole government, but I'm talking about the people on the right.
the people who say they're principled, reasonable conservatives, and they say, well, you know, I mean, look, I want to enforce immigration law, but I don't know. I mean, let's slow down the video to a micromillisecond. I don't know. Maybe those police, maybe they used a little bit too much. I'm done with that. I'm so done with that. If that's your reaction to this, You're not going to make it.
Look, we'll take your votes. Thank you. I appreciate it. But you are useless to this political movement. You're just not going to make it. You're just politically useless. You don't understand what time it is. I am much, much more concerned about the ICE in my neighborhood than I am about any supposed misdeeds of ICE and federal law enforcement. Okay, waka waka, all right? But I mean it.
And you should be too. What do we know? We know that the guy who was shot, his name is Alex Preddy. 37 years old. We know that he was violently resisting as the cops were attempting to disarm him. Why were they disarming him? Because he was carrying a gun. Now, there's nothing intrinsically wrong.
There's nothing illegal about carrying a gun, especially if he had a concealed carry permit, though we'll come to some complicating factors on that in a moment. Nevertheless, he was being disarmed and he was resisting. Who shot him? Was this some new person? You know, they've had to staff up on ICE. Border patrols had to step up. Maybe this is someone who didn't get enough training.
Maybe it was a really young person. Maybe it was a lady cop. No offense to the ladies out there, but sometimes lady cops are a little more trigger happy. No. The man who shot is an eight-year Border Patrol veteran. So this is a guy who was extremely well-trained, who has a lot of experience. Now, Preddy had a permit to carry. But, according to his family, he never did carry.
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Chapter 4: What are the details surrounding the shooting of Alex Preddy?
These people, I think, I don't know if it's because they lack any real meaning in their lives or because they're just deranged or they have delusions of grandeur or they don't understand that consequences follow from certain actions. The gun has bullets. What, what, what's happening? But these people are like, they're kamikazes. They're lib kamikazes. They're lib jihadis. They're going in there.
It seems to me, Seeking a kind of perverse martyrdom. Suicide by cops, at least give their lives a little bit of meaning. For what? To protect child rapists and drug traffickers and murderers from the law enforcement? To subvert the political order? The government of which is currently in power because most Americans voted for it because the guy won the popular vote? Pathetic.
It's very, very, very easy not to get shot by a cop. If you do get shot by a cop, 999,999 times out of a million, there are 15 things that you could have avoided in the lead-up that would have saved your life. How is the administration reacting? Scott Besson, Treasury Secretary, absolutely killing it, goes on CNN and points out that this is occurring in Minneapolis.
And this is the question I asked at the top of the show and I haven't seen a lot of commentary on it. Why is this only happening in Minneapolis? There's federal law enforcement operations going on all over the country. There are illegal aliens all over the country. Why is this unrest, this insurrection, this discord, this violence in the streets, why is it only happening in Minneapolis?
Why is it always only happening in Minneapolis? Not just with the ICE raids. Think about the George Floyd riots. What is it about Minneapolis? This is something I don't think we can really blame on the Somalis. We can blame a lot of stuff on the Somalis. I don't think this. It's not really the Somalis who are involved here. It's regular leftist Minnesotans. People moving to Minnesota.
People who look and act and talk just like everybody else around the country. And yet Minneapolis goes up in flames multiple times now for different reasons over the last five, six years. Why? The only conclusion we can draw is because of the political order in Minneapolis and Minnesota. It's the politicians, as Scott Besant makes clear.
Jonathan, it's a tragedy when anyone dies, but I can tell you the situation on the ground there is being stirred up by Governor Walz. I was out there two weeks ago. Governor Walz, for... declined to provide a security detail for me to go into the Minnesota Capitol with the state police. So he is fomenting chaos because there is substantial waste, fraud, and abuse.
My job as Treasury Secretary is to investigate that. And I think that this chaos is going out there. And again, I am sorry that this gentleman is dead. but he did bring a 9mm semi-automatic weapon with two cartridges to what was supposed to be a peaceful protest.
I think that there are a lot of paid agitators who are genning things up, and the governor has not done a good job of tamping this down.
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Chapter 5: What were the circumstances leading to Alex Preddy's resistance against police?
What does Johnny Cash tell us? I actually, because of my deeper, sick voice today, I think I sound a little more like Johnny Cash. What does he say? He says, Don't take your guns to town, son. Leave your guns at home, Bill. Alex, don't take your guns to town. The point is that civil and legal rights go hand in hand with prudence. I support the Second Amendment. I'm a gun owner.
I'm a lifetime member of the NRA. Obviously, I support the Second Amendment quite a lot. But as I make clear in my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, I don't know, do we have the bell? I don't know, we're doing a pre-tape? I don't know. One area where I do agree with the libs is all rights... are circumscribed by realities, by the circumstances that we live in.
We see this when it comes to the First Amendment because we don't allow speech like fraud and obscenity and fightin' words and direct threats and all the rest, actions that are being undertaken by the supposed civilians, by the left-wing insurrectionists in Minneapolis for which they should be prosecuted. But then even the Second Amendment,
Would we give, would we encourage, we right-wing, Second Amendment, gun-toting, love-our-liberty kind of guys, among whom I count myself, would we encourage jihadis to carry a lot of firearms all around?
Chapter 6: Who was involved in the law enforcement operation that led to the shooting?
I don't know about you. I would not. Maybe there's some radical libertarian activist out there who says, absolutely, if we really believe in freedom in the Second Amendment, we've got to arm those jihadis. I don't think so. I think we can exclude the jihadis.
How about transvestites and other sexually deviant people, the kind who have been attempting to and succeeding at murdering conservative speakers over the years, including Charlie Kirk just in September? People who have obvious severe mental illnesses who appear to be prone to violence. Do we think we should just arm them to the hilt? I don't think so. I don't think so.
Prudence is required when one speaks of any civil or legal right. The fact that the parents admit, yeah, he had the concealed carry permit, but he never used it. Only this time, when he was going to go mess around in a very provocative situation, get in the face of cops and obstruct law enforcement. That's the first time he decided to use his concealed carry. Not smart.
Listen to the Founding Fathers. Listen to the wise statesmen throughout history. Listen to Johnny Cash. Besson's analysis, by the way, spot on when it comes to Tim Walsh. Here is Tim Walsh speaking to the protesters from behind the gigantic gate at his mansion.
served on the china commission in congress ironically enough as co-chair with marco rubio political prisoners and we would ask them when we speak up and call out your government is it bad and they said Well, in the short run, it's bad because they torture us. But if you don't speak up, they will torture us and forget about us. And the idea is right now is we have to be speaking up.
We have to call it out. They hate it. You are doing everything, and our neighbors are doing everything. And I can't stress enough on this. We're winning it because we're doing it with Minnesota grit, Minnesota humor, Minnesota decency. Yes. I love that he's addressing them from behind the gate.
He doesn't want these lunatics anywhere near him. He knows what they're capable of. He's not going to get in front of their SUVs. But from behind the gate he says, yeah, hey, go out there. Yeah, go attack federal law enforcement. That's right, distract from my fraud investigation. Yeah, that's good. Some of you might get shot, but who cares, whatever.
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Chapter 7: How do the parents of Alex Preddy describe his behavior leading up to the incident?
Fewer of you to come and pillage my home. Yeah, go get them, guys. Go make trouble. It is ironic, of course, because the Libs tried to pretend that Midwestern grannies taking selfies at the Capitol on January 6th was the worst insurrection in American history. This is insurrection. It's not insurrection when some guy goes out and says, I hate my government.
It's not insurrection even when some band of ne'er-do-wells gets out in the street and starts making trouble. When the governor of a state repeatedly, for weeks, defies federal law, invokes the National Guard to fight against federal troops, and explicitly refers to Civil War, 1863, as Tim Walz did. That is insurrection any way you slice it. Everybody says, go make trouble. Go obstruct federal.
I'm willing to sacrifice any of you people. You guys who are radical and not that smart and all ginned up and I'm firing up your passions. Yeah, you go get yourselves killed by federal law enforcement. That might help me politically. Disgusting. He's not the only one. Amy Klobuchar, the U.S. Senator from Minnesota, said this.
Our message is really clear and straightforward. We need ICE out of Minnesota. They are not making us more safe. As the tragic, tragic killing this morning, as people saw it viscerally on that video, shows us they are making us less safe. With 3,000 agents, which of course includes border control, outnumbering the sworn police officers in Minneapolis and St.
Paul by three to one, and even larger than the 10 metropolitan police departments, this is... We need ICE out.
No. There's something called the Supremacy Clause. We have a federal government. You love the federal government when your guys are in power. You insist on obliterating federalism and subsidiarity when you guys are in power. But now we're in power because the people put us in power. We need to ice that. There's going to be a temptation.
You're going to hear all these squishy conservatives and Republicans who say, we need to pull out of Minneapolis. Maybe we just need to pull out. Whatever, let Minneapolis burn. No, I think that's the wrong approach. This is a test of authority. This is a test of legitimacy, especially because it is coming from walls and klobuchar.
A vice presidential candidate and a presidential candidate, by the way. These are actual established political figures in office in Minnesota saying, hey, federal government under Trump, you have no authority. You have no legitimacy. What is Trump going to say? Is he going to say, okay, we back down? Okay. Okay, I guess you're right.
Or is he going to go in there and just bring the strong arm of justice? As far as I'm concerned, he doesn't have a choice. Because by the way, what Tim Walz and Amy Klobuchar are doing, in the case of Tim Walz, legitimately treasonous. Amy Klobuchar, it's a little less significant, but it's getting there.
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