Roosevelt Skerrit, on January 24, 2026, Alex Jeffrey Pretti – a 37‑year‑old American intensive care nurse employed by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs – was murdered by a political order that no longer even pretends to value human dignity. An order defined not by law or democracy, but by domination, racial hierarchy, and the routine disposal of inconvenient lives.
Pause there. Sit with that fact.
- Alex Pretti was not a criminal.
- He was not disposable.
- He was never a threat to anyone.
He was a Veterans Affairs, intensive care unit nurse – someone whose entire professional life was devoted to keeping other people alive. He cared for all veterans. He worked in the most unforgiving corners of medicine, where empathy, discipline, and endurance are not slogans but necessities – qualities that cannot be taught; they must come from your soul.
This is the kind of person who ends up murdered when governments like yours cooperate with authoritarian cruelty.
Alex Pretti was the kind of person societies quietly rely on and routinely fail to protect. Someone who gave more in life than he took. Someone who showed up for strangers at their most vulnerable moments. Someone whose worth was measured not in power or wealth, but in love and service. And yet his life was treated as nothing more than an old, empty, dirty cup on the side of the road.
This did not happen in isolation. It happened in a political environment where deportation is reduced to logistics, where human beings are processed like cattle, and where leaders like you provide legitimacy, access, and cooperation to racist systems that have abandoned even the pretense of compassion and humanity.
You chose to align yourself with Donald Trump – a man whose immigration agenda is rooted in punishment, racial hostility, racism, racial rhetoric, and extreme authoritarian indifference. When you cooperate with that agenda, you are not neutral. You are not pragmatic. You are not merely “doing diplomacy.” You are supporting, you are encouraging, you are assisting to sustain the conditions in which people like Alex Pretti are murdered, then smeared after death by the same government to justify the killing.
After Alex Pretti was murdered, the government chose to label him a “crazed insurrectionist,” an “assassin,” and a “domestic terrorist.” Without evidence and self-dignity. Sound familiar?
It should. The same language was used to justify the murder of Renée Nicole Good – another 37‑year‑old American‑born mother of three – when officials claimed she “weaponized her vehicle” and attempted to kill officers. In both cases, the script was identical: kill first, dehumanize second, close ranks, move on. This is the cost of your allegiance.
- Not abstractions.
- Not statistics.
- Not talking points.
A 37‑year‑old Veterans Affairs, intensive care unit nurse who spent his life saving others, and a 37‑year‑old random mother – both murdered, both posthumously criminalized to protect power.
You do not get to distance yourself from that outcome, Roosevelt Skerrit. When you choose to normalize inhuman systems, when the harm is foreseeable. That foreseeable harm is your responsibility. You knew exactly who Donald Trump was long before you aligned yourself with his administration and agreed to accept people seized without due process, thrown into vans, and treated as problems to be deported.
You can dress this up as statecraft. You can hide behind memoranda and agreements. But history, my friend, does not care about your justifications. It records consequences.
Alex Pretti’s death stands as an indictment of what happens when leaderslike you choose access over accountability, money over humanity, and obedience over your own dignity.
Repressive systems not only destroy those they target directly. They corrupt everyone who collaborates with them. They turn governments into accomplices and leaders like you into managers of human fallout. And when the consequences arrive – when bodies appear on our shores, when stories surface, when names are remembered – distance will not save you.
There is no neutrality here. There never was. You chose. And people paid the price. We see you. We are documenting everything. History is meticulous with collaborators – and unforgiving in how it names them. And do not pretend your hands are not bloody.
You may not have pulled the trigger yourself, but by openly supporting a man who has repeatedly called for illegal mass deportations, collective punishment, racialized enforcement, and the suspension of due process – and by doing so, all for access, money, and trying to save you political career – you may as well have been standing there with your finger on the trigger.
- When you enable the machinery, you own its outcomes.
- When you legitimize the system, you share responsibility for its violence.
When you profit from government cruelty, you forfeit the right to claim innocence. Because you supported this for the money, not for our people in Dominica.
There is an old warning you should have taken seriously before aligning yourself with this Reich: When you dance with the devil, you had better like the tune that’s playing – because when the music stops, it is time to pay the piper.
The music is already slowing. And history is getting ready to collect.
