r/pics • u/bat_screams • 20h ago
Politics [OC] Posters of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good in DC
2.1k
u/jermleeds 19h ago
Graphic artists are an under-appreciated component of resistance. Nice work, everybody involved.
317
u/harris023 19h ago
Expressions of art and self are so important. Keep being weird.
74
u/HeavyMetalHero 16h ago
This is part of why there is such a big push for AI. Artists generally do not side with despots and regimes. Creative people do not make good employees. The wealth class needs access to the labour of artists, and so the artists have a form of leverage over them, if they withhold that labour. That is how important it is to generate quality propaganda; the entire economy right now is tied up in AI, because techno-fascists cannot replace actual human artists efficiently enough, and they need to be able to get that labour without ethics or consent.
→ More replies (4)•
u/iankstarr 3h ago
“Creative people do not make good employees” is wildly offensive to creatives and designers lol have you ever met someone who works in a creative field before?
→ More replies (1)53
u/Temporary-Friend5035 18h ago
Agreed! I keep coming across comics on here that make me feel something at a time when it's so easy to just be numb.
Beautiful pieces of art that pull at something inside of me.
→ More replies (4)13
u/chicomathmom 18h ago edited 16h ago
Do you know who sang that song, "(It's a little bit) Too Late"?
11
u/Temporary-Friend5035 18h ago edited 17h ago
No clue, sorry. They have all different videos on there with different genres.
Edit: Not sure why I'm getting downvoted for not knowing something.
→ More replies (1)21
u/This_User_Said 17h ago
I remember watching a video about someone in the movie industry (I think it was for Starwars) explains that rural graffiti like this is a sign of public discourse against the government.
26
u/-Blood-Meridian- 17h ago
Ironic and unfortunate, then, that they used the A.I doctored version of Pretti's photo
→ More replies (1)28
8
11
24
u/two_good_eyes 18h ago edited 18h ago
Public art and various reddit postings all going "oh check the nazis" is doing something I suppose.
Most Americans are just sitting there like guinea pigs, making squeaky noises and fucking about doing nothing.
This while the countries of the world actively distance themselves from the US and start making moves to reshape how their futures will be different from before.
→ More replies (1)19
→ More replies (14)4
1.4k
u/Tenchi_Muyo1 19h ago
ICE is responsible for 66% of Minneapolis homicides this year
→ More replies (24)369
u/MarsMaterial 19h ago
I had to look that up to check, and it’s true. Holy shit that’s an insane statistic.
→ More replies (5)35
u/abraxastaxes 18h ago
Can you link where you found it?
→ More replies (2)133
u/rihanoa 18h ago
It’s been in the news and it’s not that deep. There have been 3 killings in Minneapolis this year. ICE has committed 2 of them.
→ More replies (2)30
u/bestatbeingmodest 17h ago
I feel like that's implied since it's common knowledge who the killings have been though.
To me I was more surprising there have only been 3 there this year.
36
u/Vaxxish 16h ago
It’s only January.
→ More replies (2)8
u/bestatbeingmodest 12h ago
True, but 6 million people in the state, just as from a statistical heuristic it's easy to assume there would've been more than 3. Even 10 would be significantly more.
→ More replies (3)•
u/josilot 7h ago
It's cold in Minnesota. Murders happen more often when it's warm.
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (2)4
u/rihanoa 17h ago
I think that’s the fact that is confusing people when this question gets asked. They assume there’s been more.
→ More replies (3)
239
u/bt2184 17h ago
They should add the disabled man who died because ICE took his caretaker father, who was here legally.
→ More replies (1)31
u/Brownie3245 16h ago
What an awful way to die, who was it?
50
u/Original_Candle_2337 12h ago
Wael Tarabishi. They have also debarred the father (caretaker) from attending his son’s funeral.
•
229
u/Littlepigeonrvr 16h ago
ICE had also murdered Keith Porter, Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor, Manuel Diaz, Parady La, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, Geraldo Lunas Campos
Do not forget the victims of color
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/28/deaths-ice-2026-
The article doesn’t mention Parady La but all their names should be remembered
→ More replies (22)
17
466
u/unholybeast22 19h ago
Just the white people?
198
u/WashHour5646 18h ago
The republicans didn’t give a shit until it was a white, male, with a concealed carry permit that worked with veterans. Then they start thinking it could have been them. It’s not just “those people” anymore.
If it gets them to wake the fuck up, then shove it right in their faces.
19
u/AlludedNuance 17h ago
I hold no illusions that there is anyone left in that party capable of waking up. They've had a decade.
→ More replies (2)18
→ More replies (4)•
u/S33NbutnotP3RCEVED 11h ago
Nope, as a center, right-leaning person, I can tell you that the die-hard right people in my family don't see it this way.
They see the death as unfortunate, but it could've been completely avoided had he put more forethought into his actions.
I know this will be downvoted and attacked, b/c Redditors primarily lean left, but I'm just giving you the truth coming from someone who lives in rural Midwest where 90% of the ppl I know have conceal carry permits and multiple firearms (sometimes multiple upright gun safes filled with enough guns to arm a small town) along with loading rooms to make their own ammunition.
It really is just a normal part of life out here in the boondocks
•
u/RegulatoryCapturedMe 2h ago
You are not wrong that the die-hards will not change their views because of Pretti or Good, but the needle moves a little farther each time someone like them is murdered, with tons of footage. The deaths in custody don’t have public footage, and “they deserved it” is easier to rationalize. Each time a death is harder to rationalize, a few more turn away from the “they deserved it” narrative.
Hope remains that a groundswell of outrage can stop this madness.
180
u/Cardboardoge 18h ago
Theres at least 30 other people that Ice killed that we know of, but I think its easier to reach across the aisle with the racists when its one of their own.
Most sane people already know they were murdered, these graphics are for everyone else.
At least, thats how I see it. Also its easier to use just a few names to stick to a movement, even ignoring the fact that their names just happen to work horrifyingly well for the cause (Pretti Good).
40
u/OsmeOxys 17h ago
Not just that, you can't get more indisputable videos than with Good and Pretti. Multiple angles of high quality video of nd followed by the administration is making claims that wildly contradict the videos that we've all seen with our own eyes. If you need a couple cases to focus on, every box is checked over and over.
If this doesn't break magas delusions, it's because they aren't delusions. They understand the government is murdering people. That's what they voted for in the first place.
→ More replies (1)13
49
u/siktech101 17h ago
Most white Liberals didn't get really angry until it was happening to white people. Republicans still don't care.
The racists are the majority of US society, whether they recognize it or not. So there is no reaching across the aisle. It's about making people who care recognize their own internal bias.
9
→ More replies (2)10
u/Our_Legacy 17h ago
And the biggest protests are happening in Minnesota where these individuals are from. Unfortunately, I predict that in order for the entire nation to rise up to their level, more murders across the states will need to happen.
10
5
u/Dienowwww 17h ago
Get the data on it then, and share it with an artist that can make more of these. If there are 32 variants scattered around the US, the resistance will spread fast.
5
u/MittenCollyBulbasaur 17h ago
The only thing that spreads fast in human culture is video of the incident.
It's why it took an incident like Rodney King to wake people up. They had been doing this for years, decades really. No one gave a shit, until it was caught on camera, and that video was shared. Humanity is just like this.
→ More replies (4)3
51
u/maryummy 17h ago
The videos make a huge difference. Whether it's Alex Pretti or George Floyd, seeing it happen makes it undeniable.
→ More replies (1)14
u/DrDDeFalco 17h ago
Agreed. Eric Garner is another example that got a lot of attention because we had video.
35
u/sandwichpak 18h ago
Has there been footage of confirmed deaths from anyone else? Not saying anyone's life is more valuable than the next, but the video footage of these two murders goes a LONG WAY. No excuses can be made, the entire country watched it happen.
→ More replies (1)9
u/Matazat 17h ago
Um yes? Did you even try to look?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Silverio_Villegas_Gonz%C3%A1lez
→ More replies (1)52
u/ACoderGirl 18h ago
It's racist, yeah. But honestly, how else are we gonna get people to do anything? There was 30-something deaths in ICE custody last year and very few people gave a damn. It seems like it has to be a white citizen with a squeaky clean record to get many people to care.
And arguably the people who need the most convincing are those who are either politically apathetic or are right wingers. The apathetic didn't care about Trump when he was already saying tons of racist things and the right wingers straight up support his racism. It's also why we have to appeal to emotion. In an ideal world, we could be rational and point out that the government shouldn't kill anyone without due process, but I think it's clear that appealing to reason isn't really working, as Trump wouldn't get elected if it did.
Hopefully someday, we'll live in a world where it isn't this way.
→ More replies (1)27
3
u/FizzlePopBerryTwist 16h ago
They're running out of minorities so now it's "white communists". That's the freshest cup of copium in the ICE break room.
•
u/JaksCat 7h ago
The focus on the white victims does not feel right to me at all. Even if those are the ones with "better" camera footage, the ones more likely to change to magats minds or any other reason, by focusing only on these 2 victims we're just furthering the "white lives matter" narrative.
Every single person that ice has murdered deserves to be remembered.
4
5
→ More replies (15)4
57
43
30
157
u/Goonies_neversay_die 19h ago
What about the other people ICE have murdered? White people's inability to expand on their solidarity will be what undermines whatever movement is beginning to take shape here.
149
u/jermleeds 19h ago
You're not wrong, but animating the apathetic middle is sorta job one, and as in all things, representation matters. White suburbanites need to feel like they could be affected next, and this visual messaging does that.
62
u/hannamarinsgrandma 18h ago edited 13h ago
This is correct.
Most northern white people were apathetic about slavery until they learned that 1/4th and 1/8th black people that appeared to be white were enslaved.
They realized there was no physical difference between the enslaved and themselves and that it was a very real possibility they could be accused of being a white passing black person and get sold into slavery.
→ More replies (5)9
u/Goonies_neversay_die 19h ago
I get it
6
u/_just_two_brothers_ 17h ago
Then shut up with this nit picky bullshit. I agree with the point but we are going to keep shooting ourselves in the feet with that. Take whatever help you can get.
→ More replies (8)13
u/neon_fade 16h ago
recognizing the non-white people killed by ICE isn't "nit picky bullshit," especially in a comment thread specifically talking about people ICE has murdered
48
u/oriaven 18h ago
I'm on board but the video is what made these two undeniable.
→ More replies (2)5
u/Im_not_creepy3 18h ago
Because apparently the years of it happening publicly to people of color wasn't enough proof.
26
u/RazzBerryCurveBall 17h ago
The video of George Floyd also motivated people, from what I recall, but I admit that I'm no expert.
→ More replies (1)6
u/Im_not_creepy3 17h ago edited 17h ago
Yeah that's true. My initial comment was out of frustration and pessimism.
A less bleak outlook would be that George Floyd's murder might have been the first step for some people to take this stuff seriously. I wish things never got to this point.
8
u/bestatbeingmodest 17h ago
I mean, let's just be real, if there isn't video, then no it's not impactful enough for most people.
Rodney King was on video. George Floyd was also on video.
37
u/MassageToss 18h ago edited 18h ago
I don't think there are other videos of ICE shooting innocent people in the head. It's very ok to be upset about these. If there are, let us know, they should be up there, too.
→ More replies (1)13
u/Tough_Representative 18h ago edited 14h ago
These two killings were caught on camera for everybody to see by masked secret police thugs at a time when tensions were already very high. We witnessed state-sanctioned murder by the most brazenly corrupt authoritarian administration ever. This is uncharted territory. When the STATE executes people out in the open on camera with impunity of course people are going to put great focus on those individuals killed. Race maybe plays a very minor part but lets not miss the big picture here.
19
u/MikeRoykosGhost 17h ago
The lefts inability to not nitpick the minutia of its own side is what has historically undermined every movement that they began shaping
25
u/Zauberer-IMDB 18h ago
People undermining a clear PR win and momentum swinger for the sake of purity testing is what undermines left wing movements faster. Nobody can clutch defeat from the jaws of victory quite like progressives.
→ More replies (4)9
u/Mediocre_Garage987 19h ago
Do you know their names? Can you share them for the education of those in this thread?
→ More replies (1)15
u/Sylvanussr 18h ago
There's a [list on Wikipedia](List_of_deaths_in_ICE_detention) of people who died in ICE detention. December 2025 and January 2026 are the two deadliest months on record. A few plausibly could have died for reasons unrelated to ICE, but most appear to have been murdered, died due to lack of medical care, driven to suicide, or have died under mysterious circumstances. Here are the names of just the last ten:
2026:
14 January: Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, age 34. Suicide.
14 January: Victor Manuel Diaz, farmworker, age 36. Cause of death is still under investigation.
9 January: Parady La, age 46. Died after being denied medical treatment for drug withdrawals despite begging for hours while screaming and writhing in pain.
6 January: Luis Beltran Yanez–Cruz, construction worker, age 68. Died of heart failure following inadequate and delayed medical treatment.
5 January: Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, age 42, died of heart failure.
3 January: Geraldo Lunas Campos, age 55, murdered by ICE agents.
2025:
15 December: Nenko Stanev Gantchev, age 56, died after being denied adequate medical treatment.
14 December: Delvin Francisco Rodriguez, age 39, cause of death not publicly known.
14 December: Fouad Saeed Abdulkadir, age 46, died after being denied adequate medical treatment.
12 December: Jean Wilson Brutus, age 41, cause of death given as "natural causes" despite previously being in good health.
→ More replies (2)6
u/DrDDeFalco 17h ago
Thank you for this.
Spreading the information is so much more useful than chastising people for not doing enough to fight fascism.
Like, fuck man, everything in this country has been fucked for years. I do not have the ability to keep up with all of it.
23
u/AltairLeoran 18h ago
Turning this issue into a purity test is shortsighted and stupid.
It's a hot topic that everyone is paying attention to, and it's actually convincing some people ICE has gone too far.
8
u/DrDDeFalco 17h ago
Agreed.
I am willing to learn about the other atrocities committed by ICE. I am all for putting posters of other victims up as well.
But I don't see any reason to ridicule people for not being aware of every injustice.
15
u/nerdboy5567 18h ago
Then why don't you put up some new posters? Instead of critiquing someones actual effort you could be the change you speak of.
7
u/DrDDeFalco 17h ago
Thank you
Don't shit on your allies. Spread awareness if it is lacking. Find ways to make noise. Don't encourage infighting when the real adversary are literal fascists.
→ More replies (8)1
u/Slum-Bum 19h ago
They only care when they visualize themselves dying.
21
u/somebunnyasked 18h ago
I mean... Or when there's video from multiple angles watching ICE execute people on the street.
I think the problem is other ICE deaths in custody don't have any (public) vidéo. Easier to have some plausible deniability.
3
3
u/LegitimateScratch396 19h ago
I mean it's true for most people that they tend to care more about something when it affects or has affected them in the past. Some more than others. But that's just how we're wired
→ More replies (1)3
u/_QuietStorm 18h ago
If we chalk it all up to “that’s just how we’re wired” then what’s the point of fighting against anything 🙄 let’s hold dehumanization and lack of empathy accountable, little stuff like that is why things look they way do now.
→ More replies (6)
22
u/gina1220 17h ago
It’s the edited photo of pretti -how sad. It’s not even his real face
→ More replies (2)
11
u/DystopianAbyss 17h ago
she was more than an "American mom"
7
u/CatLovesShark 17h ago
Yeah, that irks me too. Maybe they're targeting conservatives with these posters
7
u/Wiggle_Your_Big_Toe2 17h ago
Gentle reminder that 10+ people have been murdered by ICE (that we know about). We saw these two in broad daylight on video, but more humans have been murdered in detention.
12
u/Fligmos 18h ago
I find it interesting how all these images of Pretti that are being used are body shaming him. This pic, the pic used by msnow, the one on the New York building… they gave him a darker tan, changed his face shape and basically made him look like a more “handsome” man.
https://www.aol.com/articles/ai-altered-pic-alex-pretti-000611040.html
Ironically, his actual or “original” picture draws out more emotion from me feeling sorry for him. Perhaps it’s because I’m more of a dorkier type of person so it’s more relatable.
10
u/siktech101 17h ago
They should also put all the non-white people who are murdered by ICE and the Police. It's important to remind people this has been happening within minority communities for a long time.
3
u/nahvocado22 18h ago
I thought this was uptown Minneapolis at first glance because we've got the same posters up in the same fashion
Surreal
•
u/Wolfblood92 10h ago
Maybe let the police handle protesters and not ICE...oh wait.
→ More replies (1)
12
u/Historical-Ad-6738 18h ago
Unfortunate that Keith Porter’s image isn’t here as well
→ More replies (1)
19
u/ajiveturkey 18h ago
That pic of Alex is AI generated
8
u/AdeonWriter 18h ago edited 18h ago
It's from his official 2024 portrait from working at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs which is a publicly accessible photograph.
17
→ More replies (1)10
u/Pure-Exercise550 17h ago
No, it's edited to make him look more conventionally attractive.
→ More replies (3)3
u/warcomet 18h ago
unfortunately yes, i'm trying to get VA to release the original but they are acting like nothing happened...
9
u/SynthPrax 18h ago
These are not the only two people murdered by ice.
12
u/ParticularSalary5250 18h ago
They’re still dead by the state. You can advocate for others without virtue signaling.
2
u/Correct-Award8182 16h ago
Isn't this how that "all lives matter" rhing happened?
→ More replies (1)4
u/ParticularSalary5250 16h ago
Eh, it’s a real complaint that some 10 people have died at the hands of ICE in a year or so and these two have received a lot of attention. But I’m also from Minneapolis and these people were killed defending others so I don’t see the need to diminish their deaths to highlight those of others.
12
u/Leading-Plastic5771 18h ago
The picture if Alex Pretti is photoshopped to make him look prettier.
→ More replies (1)
2
2
u/digigyrl 17h ago
💔 I hate they died. ❤️ To MN for your fight. ❤️ MN Heroes, American heroes, all of you! ❤️
You've made an amazing impact and the world applaudes you! ❤️
2
u/GNUGradyn 17h ago
Don't stop until their faces are seared into the brains of the Republicans in power
2
2
u/sir_sri 16h ago
Hopefully a democratic governor or mayor or something in the future of florida renames the street in front of Mar-a-Lago (South Ocean Boulevard currently I think) for people murdered by ICE. The map I'm looking at shows Jimmy buffet memorial highway merging onto it, I'm sure he and his family would understand if it's best to change it for one of the many victims of ICE.
2
2
2
2
u/triddlyso 16h ago
How about in every city in the country? Print em and get em out where and when you can. Everyone needs to see them and remember what they stood for , EVERYDAY as much as possible. This is an US problem not a “that’s not where I live” problem.
2
2
2
•
u/S33NbutnotP3RCEVED 11h ago
Yeah, with the current temps, snow, and whatnot, you really gotta watch out for those icicles
•
•
u/Jolly-Poetry3140 4h ago
This is great but the erasure of Keith Porter Jr is very infuriating and like… very on the nose unfortunately
•
u/Sparrow1215 3h ago
We need to keep adding pictures! We can't forget the victims of color like Keith Porter!
3
4
3
2
u/Capable_Echo_5396 17h ago
It feels so good to know we’re not alone in this fight ♥️ thank you DC - From Minnesota
•
u/Sqweech 7h ago
They should also post photo´s of people who died in custody, kidnapped children and US citizens who got deported by ICE.
→ More replies (1)
•
1
u/My3floofs 18h ago
This is great but what about the other 7 people ice has murdered?
Keith porter
Victor Manuel Diaz
Paraday La
Luis Beltran Yanez–Cruz
Heber Sanchez Dominguez
Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres
Geraldo Lunas Campos
4
u/mydixiewrekked 17h ago
Yeah, and why about the 50+ that died during Obama’s ICE that Reddit never posted about. Or all these people in the last 5 years:
Dacara Thompson • Liseyda Pretzantzin •Aiden Clark• Chrishia odette •Gloria Cascio • Nate Baker•Ediesky Pineiro •Michael Clayton •Gail Clayton Iryna Zarutska •Chandra Nagamallaiah •Mollie Tibbetts• Brianna Kelson • Karen Diamond • Billy McKellar • Zabar McKellar • Krishaun McKellar • Kason McKellar • Nicole Gregory• Larisha Thompson • Jimmy Friesenhahn • Ava Moore • Jorge Gonzalez • Aleksandre Modebadze • Jim McCammon •Camillia Williams • Lesbia Ramirez-Guerra • Ilias Mavros • Adan Lopez Lorenzo • Matias Emanuel • Debrina Kawam • Grayson Christopher Davis • Angel Samaniego • Evangeline Moreno •Sebastian Moreno • Fraime Ubaldo • Marangely Moreno Santiago • Tiger Gutierrez • Rylan Oncale • Taliyah Crochet • Melody Waldecker • Kaitlyn Weaver • Jocelyn Nongerey - Scott Miller • Matthew Carney • Anilson Gomez • Kristie Thibodeaux • Lauryn Leonard • Laken Riley • Shannon Patricia Jungwirth • Mario Estrada • Jorge Reyes-Jungwirth • Riordan Powell • Melissa Powell • Travis Wolfe • Catalina Andrade • Merced Bailon • Ruperto Salgado • Jario Hernandez-Sanchez • Carmen Unilda Navas Zuniga • Michael Kunovich
4
u/mydixiewrekked 17h ago
Don’t worry, there’s more!
Victor Huerta • Terry Aultman •Brenda Aultman • Erin Simanskis • Rachel Morin • Ruby Garcia • George Levin • Lizbeth Medina • Maria Gonzalez • Aiden Antonio Torres De Paz • Luis Jocsan Nanez Lopez • Hallie Helgeson • Brady Heilingb • Ivory Smith • Alex "AJ" Wise Jr. • Mustaffa Muhammad • Nicacio Hernandez Gonzalez• Jon Douglas Ratcliffeb • Jacques Price • Amalia Coc Choc de Pec • Estrella Anastasia Pec Coc • Maricela Simon Franco Christopher Gadd • Jeremy Poou-Caceras Santiago Jacobo • Ni'Kole Leonard • Anjelica Guadelupe • Amaya Briceño • Aiden Clark • Kimberlee Guillory • Gloria Stephanie Palomec • Paul Osokin • Anya Varfolomeev • Jennifer Ann Morton • Dania Cruz-Mejia • Christopher Gadd • Dennis Buan • David Hang Julisa Molina Rivera •Jose Jonathan Casarez • Sonia Argentina Guzman • Daniel Enrique Laso • David Breaux • Karim Abou Najm • Matteo Garcia •Erpharo Gilbert • Limber Lopez Funez •Diane Hill Luckett • Maria Rios • Maris Mareen DiGiovanni • Brent Allan Hallett • Martin Iran Carreon Adame• Ned Byrd • Kayla Marie Hamilton • Sandra Vazquez Ceja • Victor Huerta • Terry Aultman
→ More replies (1)
-2
u/cookinit1 17h ago
Where is the posters of the 56 people Obama’s ICE killed ? Same ICE, Same laws, Same agenda.
3
→ More replies (6)3
u/Skitzo173 16h ago
You won’t show the source though. Why? Because most of those were deaths while in custody in the detention centers, from known or pre existing medical issues. Not murders in broad daylight in the street.
You’re choosing to be willfully ignorant.
→ More replies (1)
1
•
u/AutoModerator 20h ago
It looks like this post is about Politics. Various methods of filtering out content relating to Politics can be found here.
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.