Not much, but I Velcroed these images and added to my badge. A few nurses asked for copies for their own badges in my department.

https://ana.quorum.us/campaign/demandtruthforalex/

Alex Pretti, a registered nurse, was killed in a horrifying shooting at the hands of federal law enforcement. Alex’s life mattered, and the American Nurses Association (ANA) denounces his killing and the circumstances surrounding it.

We ask all nurses to visit (above link) to send a letter to your members of Congress. Let them know that nurses demand immediate action.

Absolutely aggregious what happened. A law abiding citizen exercising his 1st and 2nd amendment rights tried to step in and help someone and is assaulted and then executed after being disarmed.

There is a Gofundme for his surviving family to help in the aftermath. Hopefully they can use the funds and hire a hot shot law firm to go after the individuals responsible for his murder.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/01/25/gofundme-alex-pretti-fundraiser-minneapolis-shooting/88349451007/

Reposting, after finding this in r/publichealth . I'm in Canada, but I'm following this story because I care about healthcare workers, public safety, and human rights.

Respect to the pediatrician who tried to help. Thank you for that. And I hope that doctor finds the support they need after trying to help in the middle of violence and trauma. Everything about this story has brought tears to my eyes.

Personally, I'm having an extremely hard time seeing this situation as anything other than more or less a sidewalk execution - of a respected ICU nurse from a VA hospital. Which seems almost impossible to justify, under any circumstances.

Solidarity from Ontario.

Another comment referred to him as “the FAFO champion who pulled a gun on cops.”

I immediately unfriended this person.

What the actual fuck.

It’s amazing how fucking brainwashed people are.

Not a nurse, but I am the son of a former NNU co-president. And a proud member of ATU1005, public transit operator in Minneapolis.

Solidarity ✊

This is the image of the post. Seems kinda shameful the way providers are failing to show solidarity in this moment and fail to recognize/name the problem.

The violence, injustice and plain cruelty we are witness in the United States is unthinkable. Countless Americans are rising to defend their neighbours, colleagues, friends and families. This is what Minnesota Nurse Alex Pretti went to do Saturday morning, and it ended with him being shot and killed while trying to protect others. He was murdered for trying to help and for speaking up for peace.

Alex’s actions mirror what millions of Americans just like him are doing every day: standing up for one another. No one should be killed, leaving their family behind to grieve in anger.

Across the world, nurses demonstrate solidarity when we show up for each other and our patients every shift. As nurses, we are known for our strength and compassion. We understand one another, and we understand why we are called to act, even when it hurts. Speaking up and standing shoulder to shoulder with our neighbours is what we need to do right now.

The over 250,000 union nurses of the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions (CFNU) are proud of Alex’s actions and stand with his family and colleagues. We also support the call from our sister union National Nurses United and call on the U.S. Congress to abolish ICE and invest in health care.

CFNU is calling on Canadian nurses and allies to join the NNU candlelight vigil on Wednesday, January 28th at 7:30 P.M., either in spirit, virtually or by simply lighting a candle in our homes.

Together, let’s make North America shine in remembrance of Alex and in solidarity with those striving for peace, justice and safety for all.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DT8TlCmD1bw/

Thank u to the original sign maker here in Denver!

I had just joined a medical volunteer program here, turned around and saw this. A sign we are in the right place fighting for the right things!

For Alex Pretti 💕

This was shared in the r/Residency subreddit by u/DemNeurons

For sure. A lot of us knew him and worked with him when rotating at the VA. I didn't know him well, but some of my co-residents were quite close with him. Morale to say the least, is quite low. The VA ICU nurses are inundated with food right now, but once this moves on and folks still need help/care - doordash gift cards are a really nice gift to send in the mail. Just direct it to the VA ICU (MICU/SICU).

One of the VA physicians wrote this following Alex's death: (I reformatted it so it would fit inside reddit)

For Alex Pretti — From a Physician, For a Nurse

Every physician knows this: we do not save lives alone. We do it arm in arm with nurses. With ICU nurses. With the ones who catch what we miss, who speak up, who stay late, who hold families together when the medicine runs out.

Alex Pretti was that nurse. He chose to serve his country throughout his life, working in the ICU at the VA, serving veterans, serving those who had already given everything. He stood at bedsides where courage is quiet and exhaustion is constant, where nurses don’t get headlines — they get blood on their shoes and families in their arms.

Ask any doctor who worked with him and they will tell you: he protected. He taught. He defended women colleagues. He bought coffee for broken interns. He made the ICU more human. That is what great nurses do. They don’t just carry out orders. They carry the unit.

And then, one last time, he served as a nurse outside the hospital. With a camera in his hand. With his conscience in front of him. He stepped toward someone being harmed — not as a threat, not as a protester looking for chaos, but as a healer responding to suffering: the same reflex that defines this profession. His gun was legally holstered. His hands were occupied filming. His instinct was the same one every ICU nurse knows: see harm, step in, protect.

As physicians, we talk about teams, about trust, about partnership. Alex was the kind of nurse every doctor hopes to have when things go bad: the one who has your back, the one who has the patient’s back, the one who never looks away.

We didn’t just lose a man. We lost a nurse. A protector. A healer. And the hardest truth of all: he spent his life running toward danger for others — and in the end, that is what killed him.

Rest in power, Alex Pretti. Medicine and humanity will feel your absence.

As members of a profession in which we are demanded of the strictest accountability and responsibility, nurses of America should in turn demand full and clear accountability of whoever is responsible for murdering Alex Pretti. It’s quite remarkable that this administration has yet to release the name of the agent who killed him. That is completely unacceptable and clearly illustrates that this administration is completely out of touch with the American public, including hundreds of thousands of nurses.

NYSNA nurses striking at Mount Sinai Hospital are devoting a day of their picket line to anti-ICE messaging. One of the union's contract proposals is to protect immigrant patients and employees from ICE, which management continues to refuse to sign.

There will also be a vigil in the evening remembering all humans harmed by ICE.

If you live in NYC and (1) support the NYC nursing strike and (2) are anti-ICE, please join the picket line tomorrow, Tuesday 1/27. Wear something red in solidarity (NYSNA's color).

Thank you.

Good work to everyone who wrote the ANA to take a stronger stand against this tyrannical and authoritarian administration. I appreciate their strong condemnation and single source website to assist in mobilizing one of the largest workforces in the US.

I encourage everyone to continue to put the maximum amount of pressure on their reps in the legislative branch, as well as organizing with local political organizations to grow community, affect change, and provide mutual aid.

Remember, you aren't angry enough.

Use it to motivate you to work towards positive change and support your family and community.

Let's show up, fellow Twin Cities nurses. Bring your own candle

I am just going to come out and say what needs to be said: any RN in favor of the highly discriminatory practices of ICE right now should leave the profession. As we have seen this week, the Minnesota Medical Association (including physicians from the Mayo Clinic - the nation’s #1 hospital) came out ripping the practices of ICE agents inside MN hospitals. As they highlighted, these agents show no respect for patient rights, nor do they have any respect for HIPAA. So, I am just going to say what needs to be said right now: if you are still in favor of the overtly racist practices of this agency, then please leave our profession. We don’t need individuals who do not respect human dignity and diversity.

The national news broadcast in Canada covered the extrajudicial execution of Alex Pretti last night. They also analyzed the online recruitment strategies that are being used by ICE.

I doubt American media is covering things like this, but I guess I don't know. I hope watching this gives you some tools to help you have conversations with people in your community who caught in a propagandized, populist movement.

I'm sorry about what's happening down there. I hope y'all strike. Keep fighting the good fight.