Megyn Kelly shows guts and apathy for ICE agents who kill Alex Pretti

Conservative Megyn Kelly finds herself at the center of a national firestorm again, but this time the backlash transcends traditional political boundaries. After the Jan. 24 shooting of 37-year-old intensive care nurse Alex Pretti by ICE agents, Kelly’s response was a chilling masterclass in cavalier dehumanization.

During a recent broadcast of The Megyn Kelly ShowKelly offered a “harsh” look at the tragedy that rocked the Minneapolis medical community.

Instead of delving into the nuances of an ICE operation that ended in ten bullets being pumped into a detained civilian, Kelly opted for a story full of self-serving nonsense.

“I know I should feel sorry for Alex Pretti, but I don’t,” Kelly said, without the seriousness usually reserved for the loss of a front-line healer. “You know why I didn’t get shot by the Border Patrol this weekend? Because I kept my a** in and out of their operations. It was very simple.”

While being virtually criticized, Kelly doubled down on her bullshit rhetoric, writing on

He was an agitator. He was in a physical confrontation with the FBI a week earlier. Yet he went back and injected himself into a law enforcement operation. FAFO. As for me, I have great compassion – for the innocent Americans who are being murdered, raped and abused by illegal aliens. Where are your… https://t.co/E5zHc2oAX6

— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) January 27, 2026

After her scathing commentary, the internet ate her up – quickly and rightly so.

“Cancel this twatzi immediately,” one user wrote on Instagram.

IG user Floki Kleiner wrote: “Shame on you. Your response to this situation shows exactly why so many people no longer trust you! You have replaced moral judgment with political loyalty. You don’t analyze first; you take a side and then justify it. When a human life is lost, empathy and responsibility must come before partisanship. That used to be journalism. This is something completely different.”

If a physical confrontation with law enforcement justifies the killing, then all of these people should be dead. pic.twitter.com/MPlJpz894p

— MURPH (@UK_murph) January 27, 2026

He was an observer. You are an agitator.

— Phil Ammann (@PhilAmmann) January 27, 2026

What happened to you? Was it canceled because you admitted to wearing blackface or are you just doing it for money?

— GenoFromPGH 🇷🇴 🇺🇦 (@GenoFromPgh) January 27, 2026

Trump just said it’s a sad situation and that he loves Petti’s family and everyone.

You have not updated your bootlicking algorithm.

To withdraw

— De Zwerver (@elerrantenomad) January 27, 2026

Speaking of people who have been murdered, raped and molested… are you still covering for our pedophile in chief? pic.twitter.com/ONJpVO3rKk

— f.₳RT (@cNFTfART) January 27, 2026

Kelly’s logic rests on a dangerous binary: that safety is a reward for silence and that presence — even the presence of a professional trained to assist in crises, including saving lives — is a justification for state-sanctioned executions.

Her claim that Pretti simply “put himself in a bad situation” by exercising his right to testify and protest suggests a world in which the sidewalk is no longer a refuge but a killing zone for those who don’t follow the rules.

The insensitivity of the rhetoric was apparently too sharp even for some of Kelly’s ideological colleagues. Marjorie Taylor Greene, in a rare break with the sycophancy of federal law enforcement, disputed the narrative that Pretti’s status as a legal gun owner made him an inherent threat to ICE agents.

“I unapologetically believe in border security… but I also unapologetically support the Second Amendment,” Greene noted. She sharply compared the aggressive federal response in Minneapolis to the tactical interventions involving participants on Jan. 6, highlighting growing fears that federal agencies are being weaponized against citizens regardless of their political leanings.

The fundamental flaw in Kelly’s dismissive and disgusting attitude as a journalist is the deliberate erasure of the “witness.” By suggesting that the death of a citizen is a “simple” consequence of its presence, you are advocating a society that relinquishes its right to surveillance. Pretti was an ICU nurse, a man whose entire professional life revolved around moving direction trauma to provide care.

Demanding that an American citizen “stay indoors” while their neighbors are subjected to tactical, unlawful force by ICE is the death of the human spirit.

Kelly’s “stay inside” philosophy is more than just a lack of empathy; it is a surrender of the freedoms it claims to defend. At the heart of the matter is a simple truth: when the state is allowed to silence a healer on the public street, no one is truly “safe” in their home.

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