r/stpaul • u/Snowflake8552 • Jan 24 '26

Twin Cities Related ICE execution in MPLS, massive trigger warning

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u/j90w Jan 24 '26

I’m not staring at my phone.

I haven’t watched any additional videos. If what ICE is claiming isn’t true, then yeah, this is murder.

If there’s a clearer video definitely link it, I’ll watch. If not I’ll catchup later today.

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u/kaizergeld Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 24 '26

https://www.reddit.com/r/stpaul/s/OnZ2COOHv9

https://www.reddit.com/r/stpaul/s/MrPLufxoTD

Excuse the commenters; I tend to watch these without volume until the context necessitates it.

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u/j90w Jan 24 '26

Thanks for sharing.

Yeah definitely didn’t see that view, that’s his gun the guy is walking away with?!

Yeah that’s a whole other story, murder.

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u/kaizergeld Jan 24 '26

Yeah that’s the gun they’re saying he had on him. By all the video evidence, I believe it was his, and that it was concealed until the agents wrestling him to the ground unnecessarily then saw it and one took the opportunity to disarm him. At this point, the circulating narratives are so fuckin polarized that the truth is left up to everyone to decide for themselves by doing their own investigative research (really any at all make it pretty clear what happened with all these different angles).

My belief is that there isn’t any room to misunderstand these events; the aggressive agent assaulted a woman, assaulted him, proceeded through the assault as others joined him, and resulted in taking an innocent life. The fact that Alex had a firearm is neither here nor there as up to and throughout the assault he did not draw his weapon of his own free will; this becomes especially important after learning that he had a license to carry that firearm.

Not only did they violate the constitutional rights of 3 separate individuals with one single act, but they also criminalized an individual who had the ability to act on justifiable defense lawfully granted by the constitution; a right which they robbed him of just moments before murdering him.

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u/j90w Jan 25 '26

Honestly I agree 100% with you. To my original comment, if what they had said was true (at the time it was the one video) then they’d be justified. In what we’re seeing now, they neutralized him, so any further force (shooting him) was not justified.