The dismaying response to a new Alex Pretti video

Flowers and candles make up a memorial to Alex Pretti on January 25, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. | Scott Olson/Getty Images

Last Wednesday, a video surfaced of Alex Pretti kicking out the taillight of an ICE vehicle, 11 days before Border Patrol agents shot him to death.

Right-wing influencers quickly cast the incident as somehow exonerating the 37-year-old’s killers. In Megyn Kelly’s telling, the footage proved that the anti-ICE protester “had been victimizing” Border Patrol — not the other way around ...