January 26, 2026: Everything We Know and Don't Know About the Alex Pretti Shooting. PLUS Answering the Most Frequently Asked Questions.
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Welcome back to Unbiased, your favorite source of unbiased news and legal analysis. Welcome back to Unbiased Politics. Today is Monday, January 26th. Let's talk about some news. Today's episode will be all about the most recent shooting in Minneapolis and Alex Preddy and what we know about the shooting generally. I did not anticipate today's episode to be solely about that, but As I wrote everything out, I mean, it just became clear that there is so much to talk about. All of you have so many questions, and I want to make sure that I address as many of those questions as possible. So what I'm going to do first is just kind of tell you what we know and what we don't know, right? We'll talk about the video angles, what the angles show, the statements by DHS, the president, witnesses on the scene, and then we will finish with a Q&A.
Like I said, you guys have a ton of questions about this story, and there are various claims that are circulating online. So my hope is that in doing this Q&A and answering some of your more specific questions, I'll be able to get you some clear answers. On Saturday morning at approximately 9.05 a.m., a Border Patrol agent fatally shot 37-year-old U.S.
What happened in the Alex Pretti shooting incident?
citizen Alex Preddy. This happened during an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis, and the operation that was taking place when it happened was targeting an individual named Jose Huerta Chuma. Huerta Chuma is an illegal immigrant originally from Ecuador who Border Patrol Commander Greg Bonvino said has a criminal record of domestic assault, intentional infliction of bodily harm, disorderly conduct, and was arrested over the weekend for driving without a license. Now, as far as his past criminal record goes, you know, Minnesota Department of Corrections has said that state court records only show Huerta Chuma as having misdemeanor level traffic offenses from more than a decade ago. And that an individual with this name was previously held in federal immigration custody in a local Minnesota jail in 2018.
However, Minnesota DOC has no information explaining why Huerto Chuma was ultimately released because any decision to release him from federal custody would have been made by federal authorities. So we don't really have any additional details about the target of the operation or his criminal record other than what Bonvino said about it because the DHS hasn't provided any additional details at this point. But as we know, this story isn't really about the target of the operation, right? This story is about Alex Pretty. So since the shooting, we've obtained multiple bystander videos that show a few different angles. And taken together, what these videos show is the following. A few minutes before the shooting happened, Pretty can be seen standing in the street filming federal agents with his phone.
He was specifically filming an agent that had approached a vehicle in the road.
It's unclear what the agent was trying to do with the vehicle, but the agent was standing next to the back door of the vehicle, which was open at the time.
At the same time, two people can be seen standing closer to the agent that is at the vehicle, blowing whistles at the agent. And we know that these whistles are used by protesters during ICE activity. We don't know what exactly happens next, but as Pretty is standing in the street filming, he yells at the agent and says, quote, do not push them into the traffic. End quote. I want to be clear that Pretty was not holding a gun. OK, he was very clearly holding his phone in one hand and his other hand was empty. He did have a gun in his waistband, but he was not holding a gun at any point during his interaction with the agents. From another angle, you can see a Border Patrol agent approach Pretty and start pushing him backwards towards the sidewalk.
Pretty continues filming and he's exchanging words with the agent, but it's not clear exactly what's being said. And at some point, Pretty makes his way back closer to the street from the sidewalk, still filming.
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