Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez once again attacked Immigration and Customs Enforcement during a CNN appearance on Sunday, labeling the fatal shooting of 37-year-old armed agitator Alex Pretti in Minneapolis as an outright “execution.”
The congresswoman also encouraged protesters to continue on social media, amid escalating chaos and violence in the city.
Speaking to CNN, Ocasio-Cortez said, “There’s a second angle that appears to be circulating much closer to the incident where you see the victim, I believe his name is Alex Pretti and immediately preceding that incident in ICE officer had pushed violently a woman to the ground and he had come over to help get her up. And that is what precipitated this incident. That very quickly led to an execution, a deadly shooting in the street. What we are seeing here is a momentous, pivotal moment for the United States. And I cannot underscore enough how precipitous this moment is.”
The anti-gun Democratic Socialist also suddenly became a defender of the Second Amendment.
“ICE and CBP, what we’re seeing here, we will see, which agencies were responsible but at the end of the day, under this so-called excuse of border security, where Minneapolis is over 300 miles from the United States border, we have an unleashing of federal agents and violence, exerting a tremendous amount of violence and loss of life against the American people who are well within their First Amendment rights. And in this case, it seems as though well within their Second Amendment rights.”
WATCH:
Do not let this administration intimidate you out of using your First Amendment right to organize and mobilize against what we know is wrong.
We must remember: we outnumber them.
We can’t allow them to divide us. We must stay united to fight for a better future for all of us. pic.twitter.com/GTssYBwJko
— Team AOC (@TeamAOC) January 24, 2026
Sharing a portion of the interview on social media, where AOC encourages protesting and declares that ICE agents are outnumbered, her official campaign account wrote:
Do not let this administration intimidate you out of using your First Amendment right to organize and mobilize against what we know is wrong.
We must remember: we outnumber them.
We can’t allow them to divide us. We must stay united to fight for a better future for all of us.
The call to protest came as a deranged protester bit the finger off of a federal agent in Minneapolis, and protesters set up an “autonomous zone.”
Democrat leaders, including Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Governor Tim Walz, have condemned ICE and demanded their removal from the city — but are not stopping the violent agitators.
WATCH THE FULL INTERVIEW HERE:
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