Alex Pretti wasn’t killed while “protesting.”

This is a common description of what he was doing on a Minneapolis street Saturday, when a confrontation with federal immigration agents ended in his tragic shooting. 

If Pretti had been a mere protester, he’d very likely be alive today.

Now that we’ve seen videos of an earlier struggle with federal agents and learned more about the organized nature of the anti-ICE resistance, it’s become clear that the better word for Pretti was agitator, or perhaps even operative.  

A protester, as typically understood, is someone who is making a point, often as part of a gathering of other like-minded people and, usually but not always, in opposition to something. 

A protester might hold a sign outside a coal-fired power plant calling for it to shut down. 

He might go to Union Square Park to hear speeches from bullhorns whenever something happens that outrages the left. 

He might march against the Iraq War, or the Vietnam War — or in favor of Hamas. 

This kind........

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