Evening news coverage of the continuing unrest in Minnesota focused nearly exclusively on the death of Alex Pretti and subsequent fallout, including personnel changes as far as who is in charge of immigration enforcement operations. But two out of the three major broadcast networks neglected to cover the destruction of the lobby of a hotel suspected of harboring government personnel. This act of vandalism was only mentioned on the NBC Nightly News, leading into a spotlight report on Pretti. Watch: WATCH: @NBCNightlyNews is the sole legacy evening newscast to cover the ransacking of the lobby of a hotel suspected of harboring ICE personnel. pic.twitter.com/oXl8c3Z5Ra — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) January 27, 2026 TOM LLAMAS: The reaction to the shooting in Minneapolis has been fierce, with anti-ICE Protesters rushing a hotel lobby where they believed federal law enforcement officers were staying. Here’s Morgan Chesky. MORGAN CHESKY: New images tonight of anti-ICE protesters trying to storm the lobby of a hotel where they thought ICE agents were housed. Multiple cars in the parking lot damaged. One federal officer heard asking for Minneapolis police. BORDER PATROL OFFICER: Where is the local PD? CHESKY: That clash with authorities in temperatures well below zero left this behind today: shattered glass and graffiti up and down this hotel, because the group believed it was housing dozens of federal agents. These 40 seconds by NBC are the sole mention of one of the more disturbing aspects of the ongoing Minnesota unrest. And yet, because it is so compressed due to its being sandwiched into a longform obituary of Alex Pretti, it is vague and nonspecific, almost purposely so. Morgan Chesky’s report mentions vague, nondescript “anti-ICE protesters.” But they are part of a well-organized, well-funded destabilization movement with multiple command and control nodes. As The Free Beacon’s own Jessica Costescu notes, the hotel in question was on a target list created by the local chapter of the Soros-funded Sunrise Movement: NEW @FreeBeacon: The Minneapolis hotel smashed up overnight by anti-ICE rioters was on a target list created by the Twin Cities chapter of Sunrise Movement, a radical group funded by George Soros’s Open Society Foundations. ? pic.twitter.com/paY8bgfyEl — Jessica Costescu (@JessicaCostescu) January 26, 2026 There is a lot of leftwing dark money both behind these protests and behind the low and mid-level violence currently gripping the Twin Cities. But our incurious media has no interest in delving into these thorny issues.  Credit to NBC for mentioning the hotel vandalism. ABC ignored that but made time for the arraignment of Canadian Olympic snowboarder/drug kingpin Ryan Wedding and a car chase. CBS ran with a vaccine schedule spat and a robotic hand that looks like Thing from the Addams Family. We are once again reminded that if it weren’t for double standards, there’d be none at all. Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned report as aired on the NBC Nightly News on Monday, January 26th, 2026: TOM LLAMAS: The reaction to the shooting in Minneapolis has been fierce, with anti-ICE Protesters rushing a hotel lobby where they believed federal law enforcement officers were staying. Here’s Morgan Chesky. MORGAN CHESKY: New images tonight of anti-ICE protesters trying to storm the lobby of a hotel where they thought ICE agents were housed. Multiple cars in the parking lot damaged. One federal officer heard asking for Minneapolis police. BORDER PATROL OFFICER: Where is the local PD? CHESKY: That clash with authorities in temperatures well below zero left this behind today: shattered glass and graffiti up and down this hotel, because the group believed it was housing dozens of federal agents. All after another shooting involving federal law enforcement in Minneapolis. How would you describe the last almost three weeks here in your city? MINNEAPOLIS RESIDENT: Hell. CHESKY: As we're learning more about 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse at the city's VA hospital, here he is speaking after the passing of a soldier who was one of his patients. ALEX PRETTI: Freedom is not free. We have to work at it, nurture it, protect it, and even sacrifice for it. CHESKY: What was your initial reaction? ASMA CHAUKAT: It was of shock and horror. CHESKY: Dr. Asma Chaukat in 2014 when she hired him for his first job, later recommending him for nursing school. CHAUKAT: Alex was a kind, helpful, and gentle soul. He wanted to protect his community the same ways that we would want to protect our families or our communities. CHESKY: In a statement tonight, Pretti's parents writing in part,”the sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun.” Adam Martinez, one of the hundreds converging on a growing memorial where Pretti was shot: ADAM MARTINEZ: He stood up for someone that got pushed, and for that he took I don't know how many bullets. And I mean that's the sad thing, that -- I mean who's next? CHESKY: Now, as for the chaos that happened at this hotel, tonight Minneapolis Police tell us that one officer was here and did provide assistance to an injured federal officer. Tom. LLAMAS: Okay, Morgan. Thank you.