According to a Fox Digital investigation, "A coordinated web of encrypted chats, street alerts and tracking of ICE "Abductors" in a sophisticated database reviewed by Fox News Digital shows that agitators were already mobilized at the scene where 37-year-old Alex Pretti was killed minutes before any shots were fired. "

"ICE and Border Patrol agents were there to arrest an illegal immigrant criminal, and Pretti and others were there, outside a donut shop, to meet them as part of a strategic pattern of organized interference with law enforcement operations."

The network of "agitators" has "disciplined logistics, messaging and coordination."

"The encrypted Signal messages obtained by Fox News Digital in real time show that anti-ICE 'rapid responders' were actively tracking, broadcasting and summoning 'backup' around federal agents outside Glam Doll Donuts on Nicollet Avenue, where the shooting happened. Local "rapid responders" made at least 26 entries into a database called 'MN ICE Plates' in the critical hours before and after the killing, documenting the license plate numbers and details of alleged ICE vehicles they claimed to see around Nicollet Avenue."

A whole series of encrypted messages was obtained by citizen journalist Cam Higby, who posted links and analysis on social media showing the sophisticated tactics and division of labor at work behind the supposedly "organic" protests against immigration enforcement in Minneapolis.

On the basis of the messages examined, Fox concluded that the protests are receiving significant amounts of funding from a variety of organizations, as well as powerful individuals abroad, like billionaire Neville Roy Singham, who lives in China.

"Based on a digital analysis of scores of rapid-response messages following the killing on Saturday, a hub of communist and socialist nonprofit organizations emerged as key organizers of the protests. Many of them are funded by American-born billionaire Neville Roy Singham, a self-declared Marxist-Leninist living in Shanghai. Some are also offshoots of the People's Forum Inc., a nonprofit hub Singham has funded in New York City since 2017 as an 'incubator' for socialist and communist groups. The People's Forum declined requests for comment."