Ever since anti-ICE agitator Alex Pretti got shot after confronting federal law enforcement with a loaded gun, the mainstream media has been working overtime to gaslight the American public. It has churned out countless stories portraying him as a harmless, selfless hero, leaning heavily on his job as an ICU nurse to make its case. It’s all part of a plan to distract you from who and what Alex Pretti really was.
The headlines tell you everything you need to know about the agenda. CNN ran with "Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse dedicated to helping others, friends and family said.” NBC News went with "Trump calls Alex Pretti an 'insurrectionist' and 'agitator' after new video of ICU nurse emerges.” The BBC asked, "Who was Alex Pretti, the intensive care nurse shot dead in Minneapolis?”
It’s no accident that these headlines don’t refer to Pretti as an agitator or even a protester. They're deliberately crafted to suggest Pretti was a good man who wouldn't hurt anyone, carefully omitting the part where he had a loaded gun and was engaged in violent confrontations with federal agents.
The truth is that while most nurses are hardworking, selfless people who work incredibly hard to help others, they're still human beings. And if the past week has taught us anything, it's that some of them aren't good people at all.
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Take Lexie Lawler, a Florida labor and delivery nurse who was fired from Baptist Health Boca Raton Regional Hospital after posting a vile TikTok about White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who is expecting her second baby with her husband, Nicholas Riccio. In the video, Lawler introduced herself by saying, "As a labor and delivery nurse, it gives me great joy to wish Karoline Leavitt a fourth-degree tear.” She went on to say, "I hope that you f***ing rip from bow to stern and never s**t normally again, you c**t.”
That's pure evil right there.
Then there's Erik Martindale, a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist who announced on social media that he would deny anesthesia to "MAGA patients" during surgical procedures. In his post, Martindale wrote, "I will not perform anesthesia for any surgeries or procedures for MAGA. It is my right, it is my ethical oath, and I stand behind my education. I own all of my businesses, and I can refuse anyone!"
Well, he’s been fired now. And rightfully so.
"Effective today, Erik Martindale is no longer a registered nurse in Florida," Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced on Thursday. "Healthcare is not contingent on political beliefs, and we have zero tolerance for partisans who put politics above their ethical duty to treat patients with the respect and dignity they deserve.”
A job title confers neither moral authority nor immunity from the consequences of evil actions. Alex Pretti’s status as an ICU nurse does nothing to erase the reality of what he did nor make his actions justified. He confronted federal law enforcement while armed; he had a pattern of doing so. The sympathetic headlines don’t change the facts captured on video, and his actions weren’t noble just because of his job. Pretti should be judged by his actions that day, not his profession.
