00:00It's January 24th, 2026, and ICE murdered yet another American citizen today, 37-year-old Alex
00:08Preddy in Minnesota. I want to talk about the facts of what happened today. If you haven't
00:12seen the video, please go watch the video if you can take it. It's quite sickening and heartbreaking
00:20and maddening to watch something like this happening in the United States of America,
00:26but it's very important to watch because this is what's happening. This is the reality of our
00:31country under Donald Trump and Stephen Miller, and it's very important that every single American
00:38understand what's at stake right now. As you all know, Donald Trump has sent 3,000 ICE agents to
00:46Minnesota. I was there about 10 days ago and saw this firsthand. It's 3,000 ICE agents compared to
00:53just 1,000 sworn police officers. So it's essentially a full-blown invasion of the city
00:58of Minneapolis and St. Paul. They're going door-to-door, racially profiling. They're asking
01:04people to tell on their neighbors. They're pulling people, assaulting them, detaining them based on the
01:10color of their skin, based on the language that they're speaking. They have detained U.S. citizens
01:15many times. Two weeks ago, they murdered Renee Nicole Good, shot her in the face multiple times as
01:22she's driving away, and then the ICE agent yells, fucking bitch, as he shoots her. Today, in a very
01:32similar situation, what we saw in the video, Alex Preddy is literally just helping a woman up, a woman
01:41that ICE had assaulted. He's helping her get up. He has a camera in his hand. Then you see these ICE
01:48agents tackle him. They remove a gun that he has in his waist, which is legal in the United States of
01:58America, according to the Second Amendment that, of course, Republicans care very deeply about.
02:04And they remove it. And then they shoot him over and over and over again until he's completely
02:11unconscious. It is very difficult to watch this. They murdered and executed Alex Preddy today.
02:19This man is an ICU nurse who takes care of veterans. I want to elevate the statement that
02:25his family put out because it's really important in light of what this authoritarian regime of an
02:34administration decided to put out publicly after the fact. But here's what his parents put out.
02:42We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kind-hearted soul who cared deeply for his family
02:48and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA
02:55hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his
03:01impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect
03:08a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting.
03:15Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs.
03:20He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to
03:27protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about
03:34our son. He was a good man. Thank you. Now that last line is really, really important because
03:40the truth is exactly what this regime tries to cover up every single day. The moment this happened,
03:50just like the moment Renee Good was murdered and the videos were beginning to circulate,
03:57Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, Trump himself immediately called him a, quote, domestic terrorist. They
04:05actually talked about him having a gun and said he was an assassin who was going to assassinate
04:12federal agents. This statement was so egregious because they literally removed his gun
04:20from his waist before they attacked him and murdered him that the NRA has put out a statement about it.
04:27The NRA is concerned. Yes, the National Rifle Association is concerned about the way that the
04:35administration is lying and trying to gaslight the public about what happened. This is a five alarm
04:43fire moment in this country. We've said this a couple of times in the last year, but if a murder,
04:49if murdering an American citizen in broad daylight by federal agents using your taxpayer dollars
04:57does not wake up Americans across this country, regardless of political party, then I don't know
05:06what will. And it's so important right now because this is something that can be controlled. Congress can
05:14stop this. Congress actually has the power to stop this. In the House side of Congress last week, we voted
05:22on this budget. Nearly every Democrat voted against DHS funding. I'm saying nearly because I am deeply
05:29disappointed that seven Democrats did not. That's unacceptable. Now that package is going to the Senate.
05:37There were some questions about senators and where their votes would be. The mobilization today has
05:44been overwhelming, obviously, because people are terrified that this happened today and that this
05:53could happen anywhere. Now that Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Senate Democrats, has already put out
06:00a statement saying that Senate Democrats will not be voting for DHS funding. That means we are very likely
06:08to have another government shutdown, at least a partial government shutdown, if Republicans do not
06:14negotiate to rein in ICE by this deadline. That's really important. I don't think the pressure should stop
06:23because the Senate is its own animal. Every senator has a lot of power and it is vital that no Senate
06:32Democrat vote for this. But the pressure also needs to be on Republicans. I just really want to keep
06:41emphasizing that because Republicans are choosing to allow Donald Trump to lead an authoritarian takeover
06:49of this country. And if a federal agent, federal agents are taking over cities like this and violently
06:57assaulting citizens, causing chaos, inciting violence, local law enforcement is telling us that they cannot
07:05do their jobs anymore. When I was in Minnesota last week, we heard directly from a police chief and they
07:10said very clearly, this is decimating. The word that was used was decimating. This is decimating our ability
07:18to do our jobs. It's putting local law enforcement and police officers at risk. So Republicans have an
07:26enormous responsibility and they have the power to stop this. It wouldn't even take that many of them.
07:33We have to keep the pressure on Republicans. I have heard from many conservatives and libertarians
07:40and independents here in Arizona calling these cowardly ICE agents murderers and criminals. They
07:50don't like what they're seeing and they recognize that this is no different than what happens in
07:55authoritarian countries around the world. So people power is extremely, extremely, extremely important
08:03right now. Nobody, after what happened today, has the option to say anymore that they didn't know what was going
08:11on, that they didn't understand the gravity of the situation, that they didn't, you know, recognize how, how much
08:21this is going to change the trajectory of this country.
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