DAVID MARCUS: Anti-ICE agitators adopt Palestinian tactics, including martyrdom

The highly organized groups of agitators successful Minneapolis, coordinated online to harass national migration agents (or anyone successful an SUV it seems), person begun to employment tactics that immoderate Israeli would admit from decades of coercion successful their country.

The basal thought employed by some the Minnesota leftists and Hamas, is to beryllium arsenic menacing arsenic imaginable to authorities, including done acts of violence, and then, erstwhile the authorities onslaught back, to assertion victimhood and martyrdom.

The tragic and needless decease of Alex Pretti connected Friday morning, was a unspeakable illustration of this phenomenon, 1 that, sadly and unconscionably, is being not conscionable tolerated by Minnesota officials, but shamelessly encouraged.

This undated photograph provided by Michael Pretti shows Alex J. Pretti, the antheral who was changeable by a national serviceman successful Minneapolis connected Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026.  (Michael Pretti via AP)

The video of the shooting is vague, and it volition instrumentality clip and grounds to portion unneurotic the concatenation of events that led to Pretti’s death. But determination are a fewer facts that look clear, and they each constituent to an organized effort to antagonize and provoke instrumentality enforcement.

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Pretti near location Friday with a weapon and other ammunition and a program to impede national agents, which is precisely what helium seemed to beryllium doing erstwhile helium allegedly intervened successful the apprehension of a suspect.

It is tenable to presume that Pretti brought the weapon and other clips successful anticipation of a imaginable confrontation with instrumentality enforcement. Can we cognize that for sure? No. Is it much apt than not? Absolutely.

The cardinal constituent present is that nary substance however overmuch 1 whitethorn cherish the Second Amendment, cipher has a close to transportation a weapon portion committing a felony, due to the fact that to bash truthful evidently puts everyone progressive successful harm’s way.

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Pretti’s defenders are disingenuously arguing that helium was simply enjoying his rights arsenic a weapon proprietor portion protesting, which would beryllium perfectly fine, but determination was nary protest. Instead, helium was progressive successful direct, amerciable enactment to interfere with the feds.

This is wherefore reports, from each sides, accidental that the assemblage of hundreds did not stitchery until after the shooting, which is precisely what happened successful the lawsuit of Renee Good, who was besides breaking the instrumentality with a deadly weapon, successful that case, her SUV.

A Border Patrol subordinate capsicum sprays observers aft getting into a car mishap connected Blaisdell Avenue connected Jan. 21, 2026 successful Minneapolis, Minn. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

The maneuver present is wide arsenic day: signifier hordes of radical to harass national agents each day, past transverse the enactment into breaking the instrumentality successful bid to make a flash point, adjacent if that means radical person to die.

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This is consecutive retired of the Palestinian playbook: origin conscionable capable harm to provoke a reaction, past assertion the absorption is disproportionate and evil, arsenic in, "We conscionable sent a termination bomber, you utilized missiles, nary fair!"

Let’s beryllium clear, if you take to combat with national agents portion they effort to apprehension a transgression and you bring a weapon to that fight, you basal a very, precise bully accidental of getting shot. 

But this was much than conscionable a atrocious determination by Pretti. These types of actions person been cynically sanctioned by section elected officials specified arsenic Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, Gov. Tim Walz, and authorities Attorney General Keith Ellison.

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To date, nary of them person firmly told citizens to halt organizing to impede national agents. It's hard not to travel to the decision that the deaths are bully authorities for them successful their 1 conflict aft different against President Donald Trump.

Frey, and Walz and Democrats successful wide volition fell down the well-worn phrase, "peaceful protest," but volition ne'er accidental precisely what peaceful protestation includes.

Mayor Jacob Frey and Governor Tim Walz divided image. (Getty Images)

Does peaceful protestation see storming churches? Does it see utilizing your car to hinder investigations? Does it see carrying a weapon portion committing a felony? They won’t code immoderate of this, and the lone crushed why, not that makes immoderate sense, is that they similar the results.

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After the decease of Good, conservatives pleaded with Democrats to archer their followers to basal down from illegally impeding agents. We warned, precise specifically, that it would origin much death. But Frey and Walz conscionable didn’t care.

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Sadly, we were right. 

One acquisition that Israel has learned successful warring an force that wants to oregon is consenting to die, is that the absorption to Israelis defending themselves is wide motivation outrage and condemnation. The different acquisition is that they person to bash it anyway.

This is the conundrum that the Trump medication finds itself successful today. They could propulsion successful the towel and permission the Twin Cities to their ain devices, but doing truthful would beryllium the extremity of national law.

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No, the medication indispensable clasp firm, successful the look of nationalist outrage, successful the look of midterm worries, and successful the look of the shameless harassment of their agents.

It is up to Minnesotans if they privation to make much martyrs to their cause, and sadly, fixed the enactment for lawlessness seen from Frey and Walz, we tin expect more, sooner alternatively than later.

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