US EditionChicagoans Honor Slain VA Nurse Alex Pretty, Demand ICE Reform
Nurses across the U.S. held memorials for Alex Pretti, killed by ICE agents, urging abolition of ICE and redirection of its funds to healthcare, organizers said.
- On Saturday, 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti was shot to death in Minneapolis after federal agents tackled him, an agent removed his legally licensed gun and agents opened fire.
- National Nurses United organized a week of action with vigils and rallies nationwide, while Gov. JB Pritzker placed flowers at the Jesse Brown Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center on Jan. 28, 2026.
- Eyewitness footage shows Alex Pretti remained calm as the encounter escalated and one ICE agent clapped after he fell still, while DHS notified Congress both officers discharged weapons and sources said the shooters are on paid administrative leave.
- Calling for policy change, demonstrators demanded Congress strip ICE funding from upcoming spending packages, while Local 3197 President Peter Hranek called Pretti's death shocking and demanded justice.
- Amid a recent string of federal shootings, advocates note Pretti was the third shot in Minnesota this month, with officers having documented him despite legal limits on state prosecutions.
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Nurses saw themselves in Alex Pretti's death. Now they’re demanding justice.
Jean Stone, a maternal newborn nurse in Pennsylvania, was working a hospital shift when her husband sent a text. They’ve murdered another person. She immediately looked it up. The man, Alex Pretti, was an intensive care unit nurse at a Veterans Affairs hospital. But the video of his death, of Pretti being shot by federal agents in the streets of South Minneapolis on Saturday, took on another dimension for Stone. “For a nurse, it adds immediate …
Casper, area residents gather for vigil to honor lives lost in Minnesota
CASPER, Wyo. — Dozens of people gathered at Healing Park on Wednesday night to hold a vigil honoring the lives lost during federal deportation efforts in Minnesota over the past month. Two individuals, Alex Pretti and Renee Good, were fatally shot by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during separate instances in Minneapolis. Good was shot on the morning of Jan. 7 and Pretti was shot on the morning of Jan. 24. Both were residents of…
Nurses honor Alex Pretti, call for abolition of ICE and general strike in Chicago
A group of hundreds, many of them nurses still wearing badges after walking from their nearby hospitals, performed a Nightingale Tribute — a traditional send off for nurses — for Pretti, who was killed Saturday by immigration enforcement agents in Minneapolis.
Chicagoans honor slain VA nurse Alex Pretty, demand ICE reform
Dozens of nurses, social workers and other employees at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center gathered Wednesday evening to remember ICU VA nurse Alex Pretty, who was shot and killed by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis on Saturday.
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