In a rare and jarring break from MAGA orthodoxy, Marjorie Taylor Greene urged her own supporters to “take off their political blinders” following the fatal shooting of protester Alex Pretti, warning that Americans are being deliberately “incited into civil war.”

Greene’s comments came Sunday, one day after Pretti, 37, was shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis during a chaotic street confrontation that has since ignited protests, conflicting official narratives, and national outrage.

“I unapologetically believe in border security and deporting criminal illegal aliens and I support law enforcement,” Greene wrote on X. “However, I also unapologetically support the 2nd amendment. Legally carrying a firearm is not the same as brandishing a firearm.”

Her remarks directly undercut the Trump administration’s characterization of Pretti’s death as an attempted assassination and act of “domestic terrorism.” Video footage from multiple angles appears to show Pretti filming federal officers as they conducted operations in the area. At no point does the footage show him drawing or pointing a weapon.

Instead, the video shows Pretti being sprayed with mace and forced to the ground as he tried to help a woman who had also been sprayed and had fallen. As roughly seven officers swarm him, a gunshot rings out — followed by at least nine more. Pretti lies motionless.

“There is nothing wrong with legally peacefully protesting and videoing,” Greene wrote.

She then challenged her own political allies to imagine the same sequence of events unfolding with MAGA supporters in the roles reversed. Greene invoked the aftermath of January 6, when federal authorities pursued Trump supporters who entered the Capitol.

“We lost our minds when we watched Biden’s FBI track down and aggressively carry out home invasions and arrest… peaceful J6’ers who walked in the Capitol through open doors,” she said.

Greene asked MAGA supporters to imagine a federal operation targeting a January 6 defendant — and then a MAGA journalist or supporter filming it, being shoved, sprayed, beaten, disarmed, and ultimately shot dead.

“What would have been our reaction?” she asked. “Both sides need to take off their political blinders. You are all being incited into civil war… and tragically people are dying.”

Pretti’s killing was the second fatal shooting involving federal agents in Minneapolis in less than three weeks, following the January 7 death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old motorist killed during a separate federal encounter. Together, the incidents have driven escalating protests and deepening friction between local and federal authorities.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said Sunday that the city — and his department — is at a breaking point.

“This police department has only 600 police officers. We are stretched incredibly thin,” O’Hara said on Face the Nation. “This has taken an enormous toll trying to manage all of this chaos on top of trying to be the police department for a major city.”

O’Hara also revealed that federal officials failed to provide even basic information to local police after Saturday’s shooting. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension was initially blocked from the scene, he said, and only allowed access the following day to begin canvassing for witnesses.

Greene’s intervention marks another step in her ongoing political break from Trump-era absolutism. Once among the loudest loyalists in Congress, she has increasingly criticized the movement she helped define — including over the Epstein files, foreign policy, and now the use of lethal federal force against civilians. She stepped down from Congress earlier this month.

Her warning landed uncomfortably across the political spectrum, not because it was radical, but because it was recognizable.

“None of it solves any of the real problems that we all face,” Greene wrote. “And tragically, people are dying.”