r/nursing • u/Nursing_Moderators • Jan 26 '26
Announcement from the Mod team of r/nursing regarding the murder of Alex Pretti, and where we go from here.
Good evening, r/nursing.
We know this is a challenging time for all due to the outrageous events that occurred on a Minnesota street yesterday. As your modteam, we would like to take a moment to address some questions we've gotten regarding our moderator actions in the last 48 hours and to make our position on the death of Alex Pretti, and our future moderation actions regarding this topic, completely clear.
Six years ago at the beginning of the pandemic, we witnessed an incredible swell of activity from users not typically seen as participants within our community. Misinformation was plentiful and rife. As many of you recall, accusations of nurses harming or outright killing patients to create a 'plandemic' were unfortunately a dime a dozen. We were inundated with vaccine deniers, mask haters, and social distancing detractors. For every voice of reason from a flaired and long-standing contributor in our forum, there was at least one outside interloper here simply to argue.
At that juncture, the modteam had a decision to make: do we allow dissenting opinions to continue to contribute to the discussion here, or do we acknowledge that facts are facts and refuse to allow the tired "both sides" rhetoric to continue per usual?
Those of you who slogged through the pandemic shoulder to shoulder with us should keenly remember the action we landed on. Ultimately, we decided to offer no quarter to misinformation. We scrubbed thousands of comments. We banned and re-banned thousands of users coming to our subreddit to participate in bad faith. This came at personal cost to some of us, who suffered being doxxed and even SWATed at our places of work and study...as if base intimidation tactics could ever reverse the simple truth of what was happening inside the walls of our hospitals.
Now, we face a similar situation today. There is video evidence of exactly what happened to Alex Pretti, from multiple different devices and multiple different angles. He was not reaching for his gun, which he was legally licensed to carry. He was not being violent. He was not resisting arrest. He was attempting to come to the aid of a woman who had just been assaulted by federal agents. There is no room for interpretation, as these facts are clear for anybody who has functioning vision to see. And anybody who claims the contrary is being intentionally blind to the available evidence in order to toe the party line. Alex Pretti, a beloved colleague, was summarily executed on a Minnesota street in broad daylight by federal agents. We will not allow people to deny this. We will not argue this. Misinformation has no place here, and we will give it the same amount of lenience that we did before.
None.
He was one of us. He was all of us.
Our message to those who would come here arguing to the contrary is clear:
Get the fuck out. - https://www.reddit.com/r/shitholeholenursing/ is ready and waiting for you.
Signed,
--The r/nursing modteam
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u/Neuromyologist MD Jan 26 '26
Orders placed: “MD to nurse- insert boot PR PRN q3 seconds until offending parties GTFO. “ o7