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In case you didn't already here, 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti was executed in Minneapolis today

The National and non-MN news have unfortunately not been fully covering how awful ICE has been in MN so I wanted to share some details for anyone who is not from or familiar with the Twin Cities, as someone in the Twin Cities who is decently connected with legal observers around the area:

Prior to being publicly executed, Alex Pretti was taking part in legally observing ICE and was assisting another legal observer who had fallen trying to distance themselves from ICE.

ICE has been viciously attacking legal observers. They are pepper spraying observers mere inches away from their eyes. They are using chemical weapons and carcinogenic gases. They are intentionally trying to take phones from people recording them.

Alex Pretti was killed at East 36th St and Nicollet Ave, almost right in front of a popular donut shop. This area of Nicollet Ave is lined with local restaurants and small businesses, many of whom have been struggling while ICE conducts an occupation of the Twin Cities and in particular had lost business by participating in the general strike yesterday. Therefore, Minnesotans wanted to go out in droves this weekend to make up for the lost income yesterday. This is all to say, ICE deciding to patrol and enact violence on this area of Minneapolis was vengeful and intentional. They were looking for protestors, observers, and people who are resisting ICE.

Rest in peace Genry Ruiz Guillén, who died in a hospital in Hialeah, Florida.

Rest in peace Serawit Gezahegn Dejene, who died at a hospital in Phoenix, Arizona.

Rest in peace Maksym Chernyak, who died of a stroke at a hospital in Miami.

Rest in peace Juan Alexis Tineo-Martinez, who died at the Centro Medico hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico

Rest in peace Brayan Garzón-Rayo, who died at the Phelps county jail in Rolla, Missouri.

Rest in peace Nhon Ngoc Nguyen, who died at a hospital in El Paso, Texas.

Rest in peace Marie Ange Blaise, who died at the Broward transitional center in Pompano Beach, Florida.

Rest in peace Abelardo Avellaneda Delgado, who died while in transit from a local jail to a federal detention center

Rest in peace Jesus Molina-Veya, who died at the Stewart detention center in Lumpkin, Georgia.

Rest in peace Johnny Noviello who was found unresponsive at the Bureau of Prisons’ federal detention center in Miami.

Rest in peace Isidro Pérez, who died at a Florida hospital of undetermined causes.

Rest in peace Tien Xuan Phan, who died at the Methodist hospital north-east in Live Oak, Texas.

Rest in peace Chaofeng Ge, who died four days after entering ICE custody in Pennsylvania.

Rest in peace Lorenzo Antonio Batrez Vargas, who died after he was detained at the Central Arizona Florence correctional complex.

Rest in peace Oscar Rascon Duarte, who died at a long-term medical facility while in ICE custody.

Rest in peace Santos Banegas Reyes, who died at the Nassau county correctional center in New York.

Rest in peace Ismael Ayala-Uribe, who died after falling ill at the Adelanto detention center in California.

Rest in peace Norlan Guzman-Fuentes, who was killed when a gunman opened fire at the ICE field office where he was being held.

Rest in peace Miguel Ángel García Medina, who was killed outside an ICE field office in Dallas.

Rest in peace Huabing Xie, who died at El Centro regional medical center in Calexico, California.

Rest in peace Leo Cruz-Silva, a 34-year-old man from Mexico, who died while detained by ICE at the Ste Genevieve county jail in Missouri.

Rest in peace Hasan Ali Moh’D Saleh, who died after being detained at the Krome detention center in south-west Miami-Dade county.

Rest in peace Josué Castro Rivera, a 25-year-old man from Honduras, was killed while trying to flee ICE agents in Virginia.

Rest in peace Gabriel Garcia Aviles, a 54-year-old from Mexico who had been living in the US for 30 years, died about a week after being detained by immigration agents.

Rest in peace Kai Yin Wong, who died at a hospital in San Antonio, Texas.

Rest in peace Francisco Gaspar-Andrés, who died at an El Paso hospital due to suspected kidney and liver failure, according to ICE

Rest in peace Pete Sumalo Montejo, who died at the Valley Baptist medical center in Harlingen.

Rest in peace Shiraz Fatehali Sachwani, who died at a hospital in Fort Worth, Texas.

Rest in peace Jean Wilson Brutus, who died at the Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, one day after he was taken into custody.

Rest in peace Fouad Saeed Abdulkadir, who died of “medical distress”, according to the agency.

Rest in peace Delvin Francisco Rodriguez, who died after months of detention at the Adams county correctional center in New Orleans.

Rest in peace Nenko Stanev Gantchev, who was born in Bulgaria and died at the North Lake processing center in Baldwin, Michigan.

Rest in peace Renee Good, who was shot and murdered, whos murderer (Jonathan Ross) called her a "fucking bitch" after he killed her.

Rest in peace for Alex Pretti, a man ICE murdered AFTER taking his firearm (which he was legally allowed to carry) when he was calm and not resisting.

read all of this. read every single name. let it sink in how many people ICE has murdered.

As some of you may have seen on the news, our city has been occupied by federal ICE agents for many weeks now; estimates hover around 3,000+ ICE agents. Agents have been waging a 24/7 campaign of terror against Minnesota communities, with a major emphasis on Minneapolis. They have committed mass abductions of our BIPOC and immigrant neighbors; they have subjected women and trans community members to gender-based violence; they have murdered two Minneapolis residents. They have detained children as young as 2 years old. Toddlers. They used a 5-year-old child as bait to lure his family from his home to be detained.

Whatever you think it's like in Minnesota right now from wherever you live, it's worse. It's far worse than you're imagining.

On January 7, ICE agents murdered Renee Nicole Good, 37, a queer woman, poet, mother, and wife. They shot her 4 times as she tried to drive away from them. They refused offers from observers to provide her medical care. As she lay dying, a male ICE agent called her a f-cking b-tch.

Today, on January 24, they murdered Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an intensive care unit nurse. Several agents - at least 7 - beat Alex repeatedly in the head, tear gassed him, restrained him, and repeatedly shot him at point blank range. Before they murdered him, Alex had stepped in to help a woman whom the agents pushed to the ground.

If you do not live in Minnesota, Stand with Minnesota is a very helpful website filled with places to donate, mutual aid information, scripts for contacting your elected officials, calls to action, and more.

Please help us. https://www.standwithminnesota.com/

Please do not read this and turn away. Please share this with anyone and everyone you know.

(this list is mainly ways non-locals can donate but by extension offers a lot of resources and places to volunteer in the Twin Cities + there are specific ways to donate time under the cut which can be adjusted to your local neighborhood)

full credit to cataloo from r/minnesota [x]

🩵Immigrant support

Immigrant Defense Network – coalition of 90+ groups organizing rapid response and collecting evidence.

Immigrant Law Center of MN – free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees.

COPAL – advocacy, organizing, phone hotline. Focus on Latine community.

Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) – education and protest organizing.

Interfaith Coalition on Immigration – advocacy, aid, events.

Monarca MN – training and phone hotline.

Unidos MN – education, protests, advocacy.

Center for Victims of Torture – advocacy and mental health services for immigrants and refugees.

International Institute of Minnesota – refugee resettlement group that provides support and legal help to vulnerable new-to-country families.

Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota – offers services to refugees, including legal aid to non-citizens.

🩵Food support

If local, food donations are welcome, otherwise monetary donations help these types of orgs source what is most needed

VEAP

Second Harvest Heartland

Every Meal

The Food Group

Meals on Wheels MN

Find a local food shelf

🩵Mutual aid funds & community support

Community Aid Network

Twin Cities Trans Mutual Aid

Leo's Tow (Venmo @leostowingmn) is towing cars back to families if a car is stranded when someone is detained.

🩵More links

MN50501 Mutual Aid Linktree – well-organized list of various Twin Cities groups.

Mplsmutualaid Linktree – many neighborhood and individual GoFundMes listed here.

Mpls.St.Paul Magazine – see Food Drives and Fundraisers.

Stand with Minnesota – extensive list of organizations, mutual aid, and crowdfunding campaigns.

🩵Donate blood

Memorial Blood Center declared a blood emergency on Tuesday, Jan 13. MBC is the blood supplier for both tier 1 trauma hospitals in the metro area (Hennepin County Medical Center and North Memorial Health).

American Red Cross

🩵Donate food or other goods

Mpls.St.Paul Magazine – see Food Drives and Fundraisers.

Volunteer your time (under the cut)

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