{"id":134526,"date":"2026-01-28T05:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/134526\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T05:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:24:08","slug":"hundreds-in-jacksonville-demand-justice-for-alex-pretti-protest-federal-agents-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/134526\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds in Jacksonville demand justice for Alex Pretti, protest federal agents’ actions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jacksonville demonstrators protested federal agents’ killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, calling for accountability again just weeks after Renee Good’s death.<\/p>\n

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Protests over federal immigration enforcement are continuing to grow across the country.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, that outrage was on full display in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n

Hundreds rallied and marched from the federal courthouse downtown, calling for justice after the deadly shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n

Accounts of the events leading up to his death have varied, with some claims by the Department of Homeland Security appearing to conflict with video evidence.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was sickening, it was saddening and it just makes me further resolve that we have to fight for people like him,\u201d said Maria Garcia, Organizer with Jacksonville Immigrant Rights Alliance.<\/p>\n

For many in attendance at Tuesday’s protest, the issue is personal.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important for me to come out and speak out because that\u2019s really the only thing I can do,\u201d said Crystal Aguilar, another Jacksonville resident.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do have family that is undocumented. Both my parents were undocumented. So growing up, I lived in constant fear,\u201d said Aguilar, \u201cgrowing up, I always felt very isolated and seeing so many people come out today in support of families like mine is amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump addressed Pretti\u2019s death on Tuesday, saying he will watch how the investigation \u201cplays out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, you know, we’re doing a big investigation. I want to see the investigation; I’m going to be watching over it. I want a very honorable and honest investigation. I have to see it myself,\u201d said President Trump.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t like that he had a gun. I don’t like that he has two fully loaded magazines, that’s a lot of bad stuff, and despite that, I say that’s very unfortunate,\u201d said President Trump.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It should be noted that Alex Pretti had a Minnesota gun permit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Following the rally, protestors took to the streets, marching block by block, chanting for justice.\u00a0<\/p>\n


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\u201cIn no world should anyone just be standing by complicit while they took a healthcare worker, a son, a family member\u2018s life away, just for exercising his right to observe a protest, which we have the right to do in this country. Now is the time to organize, to fight back,\u201d said Maria Garcia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As the investigation continues, organizers say they will continue to advocate for change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville demonstrators protested federal agents’ killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, calling for accountability again just weeks after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-134526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}