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On Saturday morning,<\/span> a Reddit user who has posted about living in Minneapolis for years shared a video on the city\u2019s subreddit, r\/Minneapolis, with the title \u201cAnother ICE murder in front of Glam Doll Donuts.\u201d<\/p>\n The 40-second clip showed a group of federal agents tackling 37-year-old Alex Pretti to the ground and beating him. About 20 seconds in, one of them begins shooting Pretti. At least ten gunshots go off, from multiple agents, and a person can be heard yelling \u201cDid they fucking kill that guy? Are you fucking kidding me dude? Not again.\u201d (The agents who fired on Pretti have not been charged, nor has ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who shot and killed Minneapolis resident Renee Nicole Good on January 7. They have been moved to “other locations,” according to CBP official Greg Bovino.)<\/p>\n The video was upvoted more than 60,000 times, reaching the top of Reddit\u2019s homepage. Over the past month, as the Department of Homeland Security has deployed thousands of armed, masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to Minnesota\u2019s Twin Cities, the r\/Minneapolis subreddit has become a vital news and information hub for both residents and outsiders. Previously, the user who shared the shooting footage posted about a missing dog poster and about trees being cut down near a local lake. \u201cI just wanted a local subreddit to know what was happening in my city, and now all of a sudden, we\u2019ve turned into this de facto hub of information for basically how to fight fascism,\u201d says one r\/Minneapolis moderator, who has been in the volunteer position for close to a decade and spoke on the condition of anonymity due to safety concerns.<\/p>\n For many of the longtime r\/Minneapolis users, ICE agents have occupied their backyards. But even outside of the local Minnesota subreddits, rage against ICE has reached a boiling point. A majority of posts in r\/all, where top posts across all subreddits are ranked, was devoted Saturday and Sunday to mocking and criticizing ICE for killing Pretti. In the Reddit community for cross stitching, the top post this weekend was a \u201cFuck Ice\u201d embroidery, and there were multiple variations of the same slogan in the stained glass subreddit, too. \u201cFUCK ICE\u201d was painted on an acrylic set in a nail polish subreddit, where other users offered dupes to get the look of a woman\u2019s bright pink nails in a picture where her hand was pressed against a prominent right-wing influencer\u2019s face during a downtown Minneapolis clash. When the moderator of camera subreddit r\/Leica prohibited \u201cpartisan comments\u201d on photos of ICE officers in Minneapolis, a user wrote \u201cHATE the censorship of this sub.\u201d (Photojournalist John Abernathy\u2014who went viral after tossing his camera to another photographer while being tackled by ICE agents.) Even users in r\/massivecock, where most of the posts are images of erect penises, railed against ICE in their captions.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s just like this awareness of the level of injustice taking place,\u201d said the r\/Minneapolis moderator, adding that people outside the state are increasingly worried about being targeted by ICE. \u201cThey\u2019re testing things here. They\u2019re coming for you next.\u201d<\/p>\n Americans have become significantly more in favor of abolishing ICE since Donald Trump\u2019s second administration began unprecedented raids of blue cities. Before the 2024 election, polling showed only around 1 in 4 people surveyed supported abolishing ICE\u2014now, the same polls show 43% support it. Anger has peaked over ICE\u2019s brutal occupation of Minneapolis, especially after officer Ross killed 37-year-old Good. After another officer killed Pretti, even people who rarely share positive sentiments about Minneapolis, like fans of competing football teams in Minnesota, Chicago, Detroit, and Green Bay, are increasingly protesting ICE in their shared subreddit. \u201cThe ruling on the field is that this is a meme football sub,\u201d said one of the top posts this weekend in r\/NFCNorthMemeWar. \u201cHOWEVER\u2026 FUCK ICE and fuck any bootlicker who supports them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n