A Fox News Digital investigation says encrypted communications and coordinated logistics tied Alex Pretti to a structured network of far-left groups mobilized to interfere with federal immigration enforcement before his fatal encounter with Border Patrol agents.
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Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis man shot and killed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents following a violent confrontation, was connected to what investigators describe as a “complex network of far-left organizations” engaged in coordinated efforts to disrupt immigration enforcement, according to a Fox News Digital investigation.
The investigation reported that a web of encrypted chats, real-time alerts, and vehicle-tracking databases shows activists were already mobilized at the scene where the 37-year-old was killed, minutes before any shots were fired. Federal agents were conducting an operation to arrest an illegal immigrant with a criminal record, and Pretti and others were allegedly present as part of an organized pattern of interference with law enforcement activities.
According to Fox News Digital, the network involved demonstrated “disciplined logistics, messaging and coordination,” contradicting claims that the demonstrations were spontaneous or organic. The report cited encrypted Signal messages obtained and reviewed in real time, indicating that anti-ICE “rapid responders” were actively tracking and broadcasting the movements of federal agents outside Glam Doll Donuts on Nicollet Avenue, the location of the shooting.
The messages showed that activists summoned additional personnel and logged sightings of what they believed to be ICE vehicles into a database known as “MN ICE Plates.” Fox reported that at least 26 entries were made in the database in the critical hours before and after Pretti was killed, documenting license plate numbers and vehicle details around Nicollet Avenue.
Video and commentary related to the alleged coordination were shared publicly in an X post.
A separate series of encrypted communications was obtained by citizen journalist Cam Higby, who published links and analysis online outlining what he described as a sophisticated division of labor behind the protests. Those materials were also shared in an X post.
Fox News Digital further reported that its digital analysis identified a hub of communist and socialist nonprofit organizations as central organizers of the protests. Many of those groups, the report said, are funded by American-born billionaire Neville Roy Singham, a self-described Marxist-Leninist living in Shanghai. Some of the organizations were described as offshoots of People’s Forum Inc., a New York-based nonprofit Singham has funded since 2017. The People’s Forum declined requests for comment, according to the report.
An excerpt of Fox’s findings was also circulated in an X post.
Former U.S. Army Special Forces warrant officer Eric Schwalm compared events in Minneapolis to counterinsurgency environments he encountered overseas. In an X post, Schwalm wrote that the tactics he observed—spotters, disciplined communications, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties—mirrored patterns he had seen during operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
“What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t ‘protest,’” Schwalm wrote. “It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.”
Federal investigations into the shooting and the broader coordination surrounding immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis remain ongoing.
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