LATEST FATAL SHOOTING IN MINNEAPOLIS: MURDER BY ICE … or … JUSTIFIED ACTION? — TWO OPPOSING VIEWS
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE MONDAY JAN. 26, 2026) — When down becomes up, floors can’t be trusted.
And lately, the space we all inhabit has tables becoming chairs and doors identifying as windows. At least one thing has returned to “normal.” THE PLANET speaks of the New England Patriots going back to the Super Bowl, this for an NFL record 12 times. Congratulations to an amazing turnabout to this model organization, from 4-13 and last place to 17-3 and the Super Bowl.
Elsewhere, padded cells have been turned inside-out.
In war-torn Minnesota, Immigration and Customs Enforcement police have killed another protester. We’ve seen the videos. Everything happens in front of cameras these panoptic days, as if the old CBS logo and the sign of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg from The Great Gatsby had morphed into video chips implanted into the very air. Of course, behind the countless cameras are people. Protesters, we call them. They flout law and order, an effort of justice now bent for political purposes. Bring filmed, The Law, armed to the bicuspids and looking like — not saying they are — stormtroopers.
What could go wrong?
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A man lost his life. He took a loaded 9mm Glock handgun, loaded, and two full clips, to an extremely tense Minneapolis street. The gun, for which he had a permit, spoke volumes to the officers, who were in the midst of an action when the armed man intervened.
He asked for it.
He didn’t deserve what he got.
Which?
Do you look to assign blame in a situation where emotional strain has placed the actors, both sides, on a vibrating surface and shaken them senseless? Nuance gets lost, and one can make opposing, truthful statements: Both sides, ICE and protesters, are right … and both sides are wrong. As in math, the sides of innocence and guilt cancel out and virtue has no role. It leaves everyone, including the witnesses, with zero, that placeholder between any definitive moral evaluations that otherwise might and could be made.
Two statements:
- This was murder
- This was justified law enforcement
To obtain the full picture, one must admit that both statements are true.
Light is a wave = continuum.
Light is a series of particles – discrete.
Both are true.
All of that said, judgements have been, are being, and will continue to be levied. The challenge: How much are the judges swayed by ideological prejudice? None. Little? Some? Lots? Completely?
THE PLANET presents two radically different evaluations. Both are Facebook posts published Jan. 24. We do not endorse, neither do we censor, these views.
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Michael Hitchcock. Pittsfield, MA
WHAT DID YOU EXPECT THEM TO DO? STAND DOWN WHILE ARMED INDIVIDUALS APPROACH THEM? SACRIFICE THEIR LIVES TO SATISFY A FALSE NARRATIVE? SCREW YOU!THE PLANET welcomes your analyses.
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“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”
LOVE TO ALL.
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You wrote nearly a thousand words to avoid taking a position.
A man is dead, and instead of naming the harm, you retreated into metaphors, sports trivia, and undergraduate physics. That isn’t insight. That’s evasion — the rhetorical equivalent of backing slowly into the bushes while insisting you’re still “observing.”
You didn’t confront reality. You padded it.
Calling this “nuance” is generous. What you actually produced was a moral fog machine: wave–particle duality, vibrating surfaces, zeroes canceling out guilt — anything to prevent yourself from saying something as dangerous as who held the power and who paid the price. When journalism refuses to distinguish between authority and accountability, it stops being journalism and becomes anesthesia.
Your favorite move — “both sides are right, both sides are wrong” — is not wisdom. It’s cowardice disguised as balance. It is the language of someone who wants the comfort of commentary without the risk of consequence. You launder responsibility until it comes out odorless, colorless, and useless.
A man did not die in a philosophy problem set.
One side arrived armored, armed, deputized, insulated by policy and immunity.
The other arrived human.
That asymmetry is not erased by permits, hypotheticals, or clever comparisons. You know this. You demonstrated you know it when you described officers “looking like stormtroopers — not saying they are.” You understand exactly what you’re seeing, but you refuse to finish the sentence. That unfinished sentence is where your courage should be.
Then comes the line that exposes the whole thing:
“He asked for it. He didn’t deserve what he got.”
You present this contradiction as sophistication, when it’s actually abdication. It’s the rhetorical shrug of someone unwilling to say that the state killing a civilian is categorically different from a civilian existing in a tense space. By refusing to rank harm, you side with the party that never has to worry about ranking consequences.
Your insistence that murder and justified law enforcement can coexist is not deep. It’s convenient. It allows you to avoid angering power while appearing contemplative to readers who mistake detachment for intellect. Neutrality in the face of violence does not hover above the fray………it lands exactly where power wants it to.
History is not confused about men like this.
It does not remember the ones who said “everyone shares the blame.”
It remembers who named the harm and who hid behind wordplay while bodies cooled.
You didn’t fail to choose because the issue was complex.
You failed to choose because choosing would require courage.
And courage, in your piece, is the one thing notably absent.
Beautiful, true, accurate rhetoric, VV. What a breathe of fresh air on this board.
It’s like jazz, isn’t it?
Hey loon, I’ll make it pretty easy for you to run through Chat GPT for a response back.
If you try and run over law enforcement with a vehicle, deadly force is authorized if the officer feels a threat is posed by that driver.
In the Good shooting, good shoot all day (pun intended).
In the Pretti shooting, he grabbed for his gun when he was being detained and paid the ultimate price for it too.
Again, good shoot (pun intended).
I bet you never stopped to ask yourself, why would a civilian need to be armed to “peacefully demonstrate” federal law enforcement officers doing their job.
Why not hang slabs of meat off your body and try and run through a tiger’s enclosure the next time you’re at a zoo?
Same logic, huh?
That BA in Gender Studies really isn’t paying off like your class advisor swore it would.
$hit job.
Angry at the world.
Despise straight w/m’s
As Al Bundy would say, “Gee, life really sucks for you.”
Your moral framework collapses the moment it is asked to apply consistently.
When January 6th defendants smashed their way through the Capitol in service of your political mythology, you found room for sympathy, doubt, and endless caveats. When Kyle Rittenhouse carried a rifle into a protest aligned with your worldview, you bent over backward to frame him as misunderstood, justified, even heroic. In those moments, nuance flowed freely. Context mattered. Fear mattered. Intent mattered.
But when people like Good and Pretti resisted the machinery of the state — when they stood against the beliefs you favor — all that nuance vanished. Suddenly, the language hardened. Suddenly, “law and order” reappeared. Suddenly, the dead were no longer complicated human beings caught in violent systems but cautionary tales who “asked for it.”
That isn’t analysis. That’s selective morality.
You do not oppose violence. You oppose violence that challenges your beliefs. You do not defend restraint. You defend force when it serves outcomes you’re comfortable with. And instead of owning that bias, you bury it under metaphors, physics analogies, and the tired refuge of “both sides.”
Calling that balance is dishonest. It is cowardice masquerading as intellectual rigor.
Because courage would require you to say this plainly: that your sympathy is conditional, your principles are situational, and your outrage depends entirely on who is holding the power and whose blood ends up on the pavement. Rather than admit that, you retreat into abstraction — where no one is accountable and nothing is learned.
You are not confused.
You are avoiding the truth.
And the truth is simple: when violence advances your worldview, you search for innocence. When it threatens it, you search for guilt. Everything else in your writing is just scaffolding built to hide that fact.
Did a consistent truth talker like yourself stand up for Ashli Babbitt?
Did the nurse, with a thousand other rampaging maniacs, storm a public building in order to prevent a legal procedural process? These two situations are miles apart except that neither should never have happened.
“Did the nurse, with a thousand other rampaging maniacs, storm a public building in order to prevent a legal procedural process?”
Possibly. Probably.
Bad examples and not at all pertinent.
Kyle Rittenhouse didn’t engage the police. He was chased, battered, and eventually engaged by am armed thug.
J 6 was a suspicious event: some were very malevolent. There was destruction, but there was was also curiosity with crowds just wandering the halls. And of course there was the question why did Pelosi reject DJT reqiest to secure the Capitol with Cap police? She had the warning there was going to be a mob, and she dismissed them from the field.
I actually would defend Rittenhouse and would want him by my side in a firefight. Babbit on the other hand, participated in what she should have known was a very risky situation. The fact that she was the only rioter that died that day is a miracle because in no other country would the police have stood by for so long and let it happen.
An evolving narrativeMore than 140 police officers were injured during the fighting on Jan. 6, which turned increasingly brutal as the hours wore on.
Former Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger took over the department six months after the riot. He said in a recent interview that many of his officers were angry when he first arrived, not only because of injuries they suffered but also “they resented the fact that they didn’t have the equipment they needed, the training they needed ” to deal with the unexpectedly violent crowd.
You want to be in a firefight???
What I said was, that as a child, me and my siblings, if I had had any, would have loved to go out at night and catch fireflies.
Why are you trying to rearrange my words to say something completely different? Do you work for Fox news?
You said you’d want KR by your side in a firefight. Would you even want to be in a firefight?
It’s a reasonable question today.
In all seriousness, if you had ever sat by a campfire deep in the Black Forest on Halloween night and listened to the wolves howl you would indeed feel an eerie chill run up and down your spine.
Or if you had watched a distant descending line of Hueys invading a beautiful sunset. Where were they going Chaz? Will we be seeing them again Chaz? Is that the vision you crave?
Way to go, VV, I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Duah Red!
Need to take ICE out and replace with army and declare Insurrection. Then sweep.
Tim Waltz is playing a hard game, and he’s not just dumb.
You do realize that some of these soldiers and Ice folk could be killing their own family members or those of the soldiers they are working with? What if your assignment takes you into your grandpas neighborhood and he is out there with a big sign? Do you mow him down? Do you really think that somehow the civil war you seem to be in favor of is going to select out just trump haters or do you think a lot of elderly, children and innocent people will be taken down as well?
Do you even care? I do not think you do. I think your brain has been taken over completely.
Do you have any awareness of the civil war of 1861? I do not see how anyone who has read up on that war and the horrors and chaos and destruction could want anything to happen that might encourage another. They would be thoughts of a madman. Madmen.
Please take this as an instructional comment: I stopped read midway first paragraph. The rest was complete waste of your time and ink.
I appreciate your feedback. I should have titled it Newsmax.
ICE:2026::KKK:1926.
5-year-olds are NOT criminals!
In 4 days, the U.S. Government may partially shutdown.
Political violence is extremism.
It is a tragedy.
Should the officer abandon the child to the wild when the parent upped and fled?
Good point. Of course not.
Therefore, what really happened between the officers and the child?
And what sort of parent abandons a child? Both the father and then the mother. I believe the poor soul may be one of the thousands of lost children who were tossed aside under the Biden admininstration.
Or taken into trafficking by Epstein and his friends? The friends hiding his investigation maybe? What kind of person or persons protect child molesters for gods sake? How rotten can one’s soul be?
The two recent ICE-related incidents in Minneapolis clearly call for the heat to be turned down in that city – on the part of all parties involved. When one analyzes each of the two events in a vacuum, it is easy for armchair law enforcement experts to decry the actions of ICE agents. But life does not happen in a vacuum. Things happen in real time with actual human beings involved.
In the example of the death of Renee Good, could one easily surmise that the ICE Agent responsible for the shooting of Ms. Good over reacted? Perhaps. But that that moment in time was just that: A moment in time. Lost in the cacophony of accusations is the fact that just a year ago, the agent involved had been dragged by a car being operated by an undocumented individual who ICE was attempting to apprehend. That experience had to play a role in the agent’s actions in the case of Ms. Good. How could it not? Keep in mind that Ms. Good had intentionally involved herself in attempting to obstruct the movement of Government vehicles operated by ICE Agents. Again, viewing such incidents in a vacuum is shortchanging the human experience. In the case of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, ICE Agents were in in the process of detaining another undocumented individual and Mr. Pretti unnecessarily inserted himself into that process. Compounding the issue was the fact that Mr. Pretti was carrying a firearm. Again, could the on-site ICE Agents have reacted differently? Maybe. But one needs to consider that the Agents were surrounded by a hostile crowd of protesters and clearly were on edge. Who wouldn’t be? Again, there is that pesty human experience component. And despite the fact that Mr. Pretti had a license to carry said firearm, why in God’s name do you bring a handgun and two full magazines to what is being called a “peaceful” protest. Does the fact that he was legally carrying a firearm justify his being shot? The obvious answer is no. But as I have said, these incidents are the results of multiple, individual pieces of experience being combined to produce an ugly result.
The analogy that I would ask one to consider is as follows. Let’s say you were walking down North Street and came upon two Pittsfield police officers attempting to apprehend an individual. Would you insert yourself into the situation in an effort to free the person being apprehended? Of course not. And if you did, you would be correctly cited and arrested for obstruction. The specific reason for the attempted apprehension is not for you to attempt to adjudicate and respond accordingly. The same principle applies to the recent activities in Minnesota. While you may vehemently disagree with tactics being deployed to apprehend undocumented individuals, you have absolutely no right to insert yourself into the process.
Our nation has a long history of citizens exercising the right to “peacefully” protest an almost infinite range of issues. I think everyone can agree on that. What is not acceptable is for civilians to inject themselves into legitimate law enforcement activities. We have witnessed countless cases where “peaceful” protesters refuse to obey the orders of law enforcement officials who end up being arrested for their unwillingness to appropriately obey the law. This is just the way things work. Should American citizens decide to pick and choose which laws they feel compelled to obey, the result would be anarchy.
Whether you love him or hate him, President Trump was elected with a clear mandate to address illegal immigration in this country. Please note that choice of words: “Illegal” immigration. The average citizen has a complete right to object to the tactics being employed by ICE to implement this mandate. However, they do not have the right to impede Federal Agents in their execution of the enforcement of standing law. If one is sovehemently opposed to this action, the appropriate venue for change is in the ballot box, not the streets.
With all that said, it is clearly time to hit the pause button in Minneapolis. The situation there has reached critical mass. Should it be allowed to continue on its current course, there will be more injuries and death. Fair or not, the continuation of the existing situation risks the appearance of a police state and that serves nobody. My concern is that the Administration is hell bent on its current actions in Minnesota not just in the name of immigration enforcement, but also because of recent cases of tax-payer fraud involving Somali immigrants in that state. And whether the Administration wants to admit it or not, the political leanings of the citizenry of Minnesota also plays a part in this.
There are illegal immigrants present in states across this great Nation. I would encourage the Administration to take the high road and direct its immigration enforcement activities elsewhere for the time being. This is not an acquiescence to the anti-ICE crowd, but a strategic reallocation resources in recognition of the current volatile atmosphere in Minneapolis. Circle back to Minnesota, if necessary, but for the moment, let things cool off a bit in that State. To do otherwise risks losing the support of the general American public for what is a necessary strengthening of our immigration policy and the renewed security of our borders.
Well said, B17.
I might question if it has anything to do with immigration at all.
Kinda like all the killing and sinking of boats near Venezuela has anything to do with drugs. First it was drugs, then it became oil. Now trump says he is in charge of the country of Venezuela.
Consider, all this commotion about the Epstein files which were supposed to be released five weeks ago. In that time we have all this stuff in Minnesota, all this stuff in Venezuela and all this stuff in Greenland. All of a sudden. One would need to create major chaos to steer the focus away from child molesters and boy does this look like what is happening huh?
If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck and quacks like a duck???? You do the math.
And yet the ICE folk are blocking all efforts from independent investigators to get any information. Who da thunk it. But why would they do that if it was such a clear cut video that had not been altered by using AI?
To Michael Hitchcock and all the other left-loon democRATS, if you’re mad at federal law enforcement officers doing their job and removing the illegal aliens that we overwhelmingly voted President Trump to do, tough $hit!!
The real blame goes to Autopen and Kamala Harris for allowing an illegal alien invasion into our country to try and secure a forever one-party rule (communism).
These are civilian militias that are attacking and harassing ICE officers. The coordination is very military style. While many are trying to figure out who is at fault for the shooting, the mission of these groups was accomplished. Their mission is to create chaos and to get rid of ICE. Alex Pretti began to direct traffic and soon after was involved in a fight with ICE. As soon as the shooting took place young women began shouting “Look What You’ve Done”, and “Oh my God”, then others that were gathered ran off while talking on the phones to report to their “groups” about the result of their harassment.
How deep does this coordination go? Mayor Frey and Governor Walz were saying look how many protesters have been out there and this is sending a strong message to ICE. Do they really think these people are just regular citizens?. Even local citizens like Pretti were part of these organized groups. Frey and Walz want ICE out of their city and state. The coordination of these groups was tracked down to the smallest details and it has all been recorded. This article explains it all.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/far-left-network-helped-put-alex-pretti-harms-way-made-him-martyr
If you have a conceal carry permit bringng a loaded gun to a public demonstration is completely legal. It is my 2nd amendment right to bring my loaded 9mm with magazines to a public demonstrations. The overreaching federal government, which is what the 2nd amendment was made to protect us from, may not enter or take shelter in our homes and may not abergate our right to conceal carry.
Except when this guy bought the gun he was likely thinking “Imma gonna kill some pigs”. To be fair, maybe he was a normal guy and not a radical, but a responsible gun owner should not hang around with terrorists.
As investigators continue to gather evidence on Saturday about the second fatal shooting this month of an American citizen in Minneapolis at the hands of a federal agent, more information is emerging about the victim, Alex Pretti.
Pretti, 37, worked for the Minneapolis VA Health Care System as an ICU nurse, according to AFGE Professional Local 3669, which represents professional employees affiliated with the Minneapolis VA Health Care System.
Sure seems like a terrorist to me. Had everybody fooled. Saving lives in a veterans care center during the day and then being a bad guy at night. A reglar Dr Jekyll and Hyde sort of fellow he was huh?
How stupid can some people be? How cult blinded can they be? Talkin bout you pat.
It may be your right, but rights will not protect you from foolishness.
Or Ice.
He anticipated trouble with the police, so he brings a cocked double action pistol with two mags – he’s ready for a close quarter firefight, and with no ID on hand he’s not prepared to talk.
Exercise your Rights with Common Sense.
Ashley Babbit on the other hand, was dressed like a princess and mistakenly thought she was headed to the land of OZ to give him some homemade cookies on Jan 6th. Right?
Crude. You are a remarkably vulgar man.
I love how some think they have the power to read the mind and deduce the “intent” of a person who has passed on as well as the officer involved. Many people think they can do it from miles away. Magical…
OPIE
Yeah, like Vendetta. She loves magical thinking.
I very much enjoy her contributions.
We do too, MEAN!
Hitchcock better hire an attorney Dan, and I’ll give you some free advice – remove his post as it’s a lawsuit waiting to be filed because it’s full of libel and slander, and you don’t need your blog dragged into it, though it may be too late. To post a view on the latest in MN is understandable but the nonsense about the local police has crossed the line, big time.
Hitchcock is a Saint.
This shooting is likely a justifiable homicide. If the cops thought he had a gun, and was going for it, or was going for a cops gun, shooting is justified, plain and simple. The dead guy clearly brought this upon himself. He should have never impeded the arrest and should have complied when they went to lock him up for impeding. Sounds to me like he had a death wish.
Death cult and the adoration of the martyr. They are goading LE to shoot.
Listen to this 3 minute explanation on protesting and resisting. The guy is who did the Old Glory flags during some of Trump’s rallies. Was a protester for 30 years. Well worth it to listen.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wUCF9rQWYdA&pp=0gcJCTMBo7VqN5tD
OPIE
The clip is AMAZING. Everyone should give a listen. Best commentary on the situation we have yet to hear… by far.
Ashley Babbit on the other hand was wishing to find a pony in the Capitol building. Just a cute little pony was all she wanted.
Clearest post on this I’ve seen yet.Good job blm. Its unfornate that we live in a society that all law enforcement is disrespected by the liberal left loons.
Tell Fat Hitchcock to get on a bus to Minneapolis and join all his funny colored hair friends. He is a clueless grifter living off all his immigrant volunteer’s work.
Take the ward six five two lung heads,Popeyes arms and beer belly with him.
One thing that I really don’t understand is where you people get the idea I live off the work of immigrant volunteers. I made $20,000 last year. I’m not in it for the grift, you moron. My income is a matter of public record you can Google it instead of making up wild accusations.
Why is it so hard for you people to understand that I’m honest and intellectually and morally consistent and you just happen to disagree with me?
I don’t pay the immigrants who volunteer in our center anything because they’re volunteers who believe in our mission and I don’t make any money off of my work in the center because we don’t have enough funding for that. Have you ever volunteered for anything or is volunteerism beyond your capacity to imagine?
You may personally believe that I shouldn’t be sourcing free food and free clothes to give to anyone in the community who is in need and enters those doors and you may not personally believe that I should help advocate for anyone who comes to those doors who has a problem and needs help interfacing with a medical, legal, or City Hall professional. But that’s what I do and I’m not gonna stop doing that.
You may resent that I raised money to get five people out of ice detention, and you may resent that I organized a coalition to prevent City Hall for making panhandling illegal. But these are well thought out positions that are ethically very consistent with an ethical code that I have lived up to for more than a decade. Even if you don’t personally agree with it Can you say the same? Do you live up to any kind of ethical code? Or do you just mindlessly hate? I’m the only one on here with the courage to use my real name besides Dan Valenti. I stand behind what I say and do. And also when I’m wrong, I apologize and try to fix or change it. Can you say the same?
I’m not gonna argue with anyone else on here because some of the things they’re saying are so fucking stupid but for you I’m just really curious where are you idiots getting the idea I’m living off immigrants. It feels like projection to me, like you guys are so fucking stupid and immoral you can’t even imagine just working with an immigrant on a shared project on a basis of equality and mutual respect. Also, we got three white senior citizens and another fat guy in my age who volunteer there as well as a Jewish person and quite a few students so it’s not only immigrants not that that matters to me. I think there’s something wrong inside your very mind that if you even see immigrants volunteering somewhere you have to imagine exploitation. But maybe there’s something else going on that gives you some reason to think that. I don’t expect an honest answer from you, but I’m sincerely asking for one.
I know this one settled piece of shit named Stephen White started a rumor that I live off immigrants and even showing him where to find financial statements about my organization, didn’t change his mind at all. He apologized privately and then brought up the rumor again next time he was mad. And he has pretty much nothing to do but sit around at home and post so maybe you’re getting that off him I don’t even know if the guy is alive anymore because I blocked him. But otherwise I really am sincerely asking. Where does this idea come from that you feel I’m living off the work of immigrants rather than proudly working with them and others
MICHAEL
Let me also confirm that you do not “live off immigrants.” Let me also state that while MH and I often express differing views, we do so with respect. MICHAEL’s positions are well thought out, and he lives by an ethic and philosophic perspective that has been consistent with as long as I’ve known him, which is more than a couple decades. He’s a good man.
As a footnote, I will also point out that Ron Kitterman and Jon Levine also use their own, real names. I wish more folks did, but THE PLANET allows nom de plumes because of the nature of rhetoric in Bitchfield. We have our fair share of public employees who comment, as well as business and shop owners. Retribution keeps them undercover.
Oy vey ist mir.
” …as well as a Jewish person” .
sounds hella like some of my best friends are black.
Damn the only thing better than a Jewish would be if your Jewish was a queer disabled female.
Now THAT would check a lot of boxes on grant applications.
Might even get $6,050 next time.
How about we expose a little fraud by MA’s own Chrome Dome, aka-Ayanna Pressley.
For those who can’t open X, I cut and paste it for you. I’ll post the link at the bottom of the page.
Race Hustling sure has made Chrome Dome a HELL of a lot of money. As you’ll see below, CD had a net worth of $12,500 when she was elected to congress in 2018, with a salary of $174,000 per year. Six years later in congress with that salary, she’s now worth $8,000,000.
After Benny @bennyjohnson
went digging on Illan Omar, I went digging a little bit on “the squad”.
Rashida Tlaib is a broke ass mf’r btw.
However, Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) has some interesting things going on.
Her husband is pulling in $1M/yr from “government funded” sources.
So I dug through her congressional financial disclosures and used AI to break some things down.
Let’s go.
THE NUMBERS:
* 2018 net worth: -$12,500 (per OpenSecrets)
* 2024 net worth: ~$8,000,000
That’s an $8 MILLION increase in 6 years on a $174K congressional salary.
How’d that happen?
THE TIMELINE:
* Jan 3, 2019: Pressley sworn into Congress
* Jan 8, 2019: Her husband Conan Harris resigns from his $92,500/year Boston City Hall job
* Jan 15, 2019: He registers “Conan Harris & Associates” – a DEI consulting firm
* Wayback Machine confirms http://
conanharrisassociates.com went live in 2019.
What a wild couple of weeks, eh?
THE CONSULTING GRIFT:
Per her financial disclosures, his firm’s income:
* 2021: ~$300,000
* 2024: $100,001 – $1,000,000
That’s a MILLION dollars a year from a consulting firm launched the week his wife entered Congress.
THE CLIENTS:
His client list reads like a government funding directory:
* City of Bridgeport, CT (municipal govt)
* City of Framingham (municipal govt)
* MassHousing (state housing finance agency)
* Meet Boston (tourism bureau, receives public funding)
* The Boston Foundation
* Justice Resource Institute (social services nonprofit)
* Obama Foundation
Pattern: DEI consulting for entities that either ARE government or depend heavily on government grants.
THE CONFLICT:
Pressley sits on:
* House Financial Services Committee (MassHousing = housing finance)
* House Oversight & Government Reform (government contracting)
Her husband’s firm gets paid by government entities and nonprofits dependent on government funding – in policy areas her committees oversee.
THE ETHICS WARNING:
* The Boston Globe reported in Feb 2019 that before leaving City Hall, Harris used his government email to pitch staying on as a $50K/year consultant.
* State ethics laws bar using official resources for personal gain.
* An ethics expert warned they’d need to “be mindful to avoid any potential ethical and political pitfalls.”
REAL ESTATE:
Her 2024 disclosure shows spouse-owned assets:
* Martha’s Vineyard rental: $1,000,001 – $5,000,000
* Boston rental #1: $500,001 – $1,000,000
* Boston rental #2: $500,001 – $1,000,000
* Boston rental #3: $250,001 – $500,000
* Fort Lauderdale rental (sold 2024): $250,001 – $500,000
Total real estate: $8M
Remember, in 2019 they had ONE rental property and were underwater on it.
THE BACKGROUND:
* Before his city job and consulting gig, Conan Harris spent 10 years in federal prison for drug trafficking.
* He went from dealing drugs → city job (while his wife was on City Council) → million-dollar consulting firm the week she entered Congress.
BOTTOM LINE:
* Net worth in 2018: negative
* Net worth in 2024: $8 million
The day his wife became a Congresswoman, Conan Harris quit his city job and launched a consulting firm that now pulls up to seven figures annually from government-funded clients.
She sits on committees overseeing housing and government contracting. He consults for housing agencies and government-funded nonprofits.
The swamp doing swamp things.
Sources:
* Pressley 2024 Financial Disclosure (http://
disclosures-clerk.house.gov, ID #10067354)
* OpenSecrets 2018 net worth estimate
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✪ Evil Tean ✪ on X: “After Benny @bennyjohnson went digging on Illan Omar, I went digging a little bit on “the squad”. Rashida Tlaib is a broke ass mf’r btw. However, Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) has some interesting things going on. Her husband is pulling in $1M/yr from “government funded” sources.” / X
EXCELLENTE work, MARK. Chrome Dome is a swamp-creating race grifter fer sher.
Dan, you could have found a better source than MH. Not a good representation for the critical perspective.
His piece is very weak. I’d have sent it back to him with direction to rewrite from logical argument not emotional.
If I believed Hitchock represented that opinion, id conclude they have a completely distorted impression of reality, like they were living in Tehran. Who would even believe that Police are given orders to execute???
Over the years p p d has taken out many individuals with ice recent similar incidents. The guy in the car at springside little league,Miggy,the knife wielding one on outer elm,the Clinton ave shooting…and more….Not saying they were justified but it seems that’s the way they all to do it. I can say one thing,if I were a agent and a protest interfered in a situation and had a loaded weapon…shoot and ask questions later..
The Miggy thing seems like it happened because the two cops lacked backup and a commanding officer. Laser didn’t work either, so maybe equipment was not tested. The overall administration looks troublesome.
Iran commits mass murder, mowing down about 40,000 people, the approximate population of Shittsfied, in one weekend with vehicle mounted machine guns and snipers, and the libs don’t say jack shit or diddly squat. 2 people killed by cops in Minnesota, who brought it upon themselves by interferring in law enforcement operations, and the lib are apopletic.
Got a better one,.Bill Belichick didn’t make the Hall of Fame ?
Yes, and what is happening in Iran is exactly what MH claims is happening here. If he is the best one can find to explain the anger, then they they definitely have an intelligence deficit.
There is also this:
Copied from an X post:
“As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly.
What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.
Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse.
This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.
The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.
I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night.
Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war.
We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread.
Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore.
It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil”.
– Eric Schwalm, CWO, US SF
12:03 PM · Jan 25, 2026
CHAZ
This guy knows what he’s talking about. MOST instructive.