Justice Testimony

Visiting a ‘makeshift’ memorial for Alex Pretti, Renee Good in Minneapolis, Minn.

James Fasuekoi

On Sunday, April 12, 2026, we visited a makeshift memorial in South Minneapolis, Minnesota, set up by human rights advocates in honor of both Alex Jeffry Pretti and Renee Nicole Good. Both died Jan. 2026, in the city at the hands of Federal ICE agents who were enforcing the government’s immigration orders. The two early victims were U.S. citizens and born the same year. Renee, the first to be shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent, according to online sources, was a mother of three kids and a poet, while Alex was an ICU nurse who provided care for critically ill-patients. The murders of Alex and Renee (White Americans), sparked public outrage, prompting tens of thousands to hold public protests across the U.S. This event somehow shifted the perception of most none-Americans worldwide who’ve long viewed the U.S. as being “generous” or “welcoming” to persecuted immigrants from all corners of the world as Mexican and African immigrants particularly were being racially profiled, arrested, and detained in unknown locations, an action most viewed as being in total violation of citizens’ First Amendment Rights. Photographs by Martha Fasuekoi & Author

These portraits mounted on the wall next to a parking lot near the spot where ICU nurse Alex Jeffry Pretti was gunned down in South Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 24, 2026.
Author & Publisher is a human right journalist who previously worked in West Africa for The AP as a War Correspondent. he points to a banner Sunday, honoring Alex and Renee at the site.
Editor-Publisher James Kokulo Fasuekoi is himself a human rights journalist and stands next to a makeshift memorial set up to honor both victims.
Renee Nicole Good (L), was a mother of three children and a poet, while Alex Jeffry Pretti was an ICU professional nurse before their demise last January 2026.
At the memorial site near the corner of West 26th and Nicollet, in South Minneapolis, not a single moment that passes by without curious onlookers and justice-rights supporters walking by to take photographs.
History teaches that America is a nation of immigrants and overtime its faces have changed, coming in different shades as seen in the above photograph; shades that add color and beauty as well. That “color” or “beauty” is now being resented unfortunately, by some who view themselves as bona fide “Americans” than their counterparts.

MAY THEIR SOULS REST IN PERFECT PEACE! AMEN!