"Though the administration seems to be trying to soften that initial response after fierce backlash, it's an accusation that members of the Trump administration have been leveling at wide swaths of people beyond Pretti including Renee Nicole Good, another Minnesotan killed by ICE agents two and a half weeks prior, and Marimar Martinez, who survived being shot by ICE agents in Chicago in October as part of an ongoing strategy to criminalize dissent."
"A common pattern has also emerged in courts: ICE or other federal agents will initiate a violent confrontation with a protester pushing a 70-year-old veteran to the ground in Chicago outside the Broadway ICE facility, or shoving a US citizen at a protest in LA then, the Department of Justice will press charges against the victim of that violence, rather than against the perpetrator."
Federal immigration agents shot and killed ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on 23 January. The homeland security secretary immediately claimed, without credible evidence, that Pretti had been engaged in domestic terrorism. Similar accusations have been leveled at other people, including Renee Nicole Good and Marimar Martinez. ICE agents have directly warned observers and legal monitors that they are recorded in a database and considered domestic terrorists. A pattern has emerged of federal agents initiating violent confrontations and the Department of Justice prosecuting the victims, with over a hundred Section 111 prosecutions filed in late 2025.
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