Patriot Brief
- What Happened: Logs from an anti-ICE Signal chat surfaced showing coordinated activity around the location where Alex Pretti was later shot.
- Why It Matters: The messages challenge claims that Pretti was merely observing and suggest organized efforts to impede federal operations.
- Bottom Line: The evidence points to real-time coordination, not spontaneous bystander behavior.
New evidence obtained from encrypted Signal chats adds a critical layer of context to the Minneapolis shooting that activists and sympathetic politicians have largely ignored.
Screenshots and logs shared publicly by investigative journalist Cam Higby show what appears to be Alex Pretti’s final messages inside an anti-ICE “rapid response” Signal group. The messages are timestamped minutes before the fatal encounter and include real-time location updates, vehicle identification, and movement coordination.
The message reads, “At friendship coop. I'm moving west on 38 to spot. Will update.”
minThe chat itself was later marked “LEAVE CHAT. DELETE CHAT,” according to the logs.
One message attributed to Pretti flagged a specific vehicle and direction of travel, while follow-up posts from others directed resources to nearby intersections. Mapping of the chat’s coordinates shows convergence toward the area near 28th Street and Garfield Avenue, close to the Glam Doll Donuts location where federal agents were operating and where Pretti was later shot.
This matters because it directly contradicts the claim that Pretti was simply standing back and observing. The messages depict active participation in a coordinated effort to track and intercept federal operations. The group’s structure mirrors earlier disclosures about designated roles such as mobile patrols, plate checkers, and dispatchers issuing constant alerts.
CNN has already reported that Pretti had a physical encounter with federal agents one week earlier, during which he was tackled and suffered a broken rib, and that sources said he was known to law enforcement. The Signal logs now show continued engagement with organized anti-ICE activity leading up to the final incident.
None of this diminishes the gravity of a life lost. But facts matter. Protest is protected. Coordinated obstruction is not. The final Signal messages paint a picture of intent and coordination that the public was not initially shown.
As investigations continue, these logs raise unavoidable questions about who organized the network, how widespread it was, and why its role was downplayed. The narrative that Pretti was an uninvolved bystander does not survive contact with the evidence now in the open.