President Trump reacted to a new video that shows Minneapolis activist Alex Pretti kicking and breaking the tail light on an ICE agent’s SUV days before he died.
In a post on his Truth Social app, Trump shared video of Pretti kicking an agent’s SUV and tussling with an agent.
Trump called the ICU nurse an “agitator and, perhaps, insurrectionist,” in his Truth Social post on Friday.
The president said that Pretti’s “stock has gone way down with the just released video of him screaming and spitting in the face of a very calm and under control ICE Officer, and then crazily kicking in a new and very expensive government vehicle, so hard and violent, in fact, that the taillight broke off in pieces.”
In the video, recorded on Jan. 13, Pretti is seen spitting on a federal agent and screaming at him. A gun is visible in his back pocket.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, who is superimposed over the video, describes Pretti as compassionate, calm, and patient.
Warren says, “Caring for people was at the core of who he was. He was incapable of causing harm.”
As Pretti kicked the departing SUV, Warren said, “Alex carried patience, compassion and calm as a steady light within him.”
The video shows Pretti breaking the tail light on the SUV, causing an agent to jump out of the vehicle and place him on the ground.
As Pretti struggled with the agent, Warren said, “Even at the very end, that light was there. I recognized his familiar stillness and signature calm composure.”
The Story of Alex Pretti.
Read by Elizabeth Warren. pic.twitter.com/mxq7BkcEtx
— MAZE (@mazemoore) January 29, 2026
Pretti’s mother reportedly pleaded with him to stop stalking and antagonizing federal agents in the days leading up to his death.
Two Border Patrol agents who fired the shots that killed Pretti were suspended while the investigation continues.
A GoFundMe raised over $1.7 million for Pretti’s family.
