Chaya Raichik, who runs the social media account Libs of TikTok, has spent the days following Alex Pretti’s killing doxxing ordinary working people — teachers, nurses, school board members — for speaking out against federal immigration officials or expressing sympathy for Pretti.
Raichik’s strategy seems to be emboldened by the series of mass firings that occurred after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. She is spamming social media with details about individuals who have criticized ICE or spoken positively about Pretti — including their name, photo, and employer — in a seeming attempt to punish them, either by public harassment or professional retaliation.
Raichik’s bar for what warrants professional discipline or termination appears to be any criticism of ICE or support for Pretti.
A Rhode Island teacher described Pretti and Renee Good, another Minneapolis resident killed by federal immigration agents, as courageous heroes in an Instagram post: “May the courage we have all witnessed in everyday heroes like Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good and the people of Minnesota inspire us to be courageous where we live.”
Raichik reposted the teacher’s photo and tagged her school, writing, “Are parents aware and OK with this person promoting violence teaching their kids?”
She targeted an elementary teacher for the offense of being in an anti-ICE Signal chat, once again reposting their photo and tagging the school: “Do parents know that the person teaching their kids is on an anti-ICE resistance group chat which coordinates the doxxing and harassment of federal agents? Do you condone these actions?”
A school board member in Maine asked on Facebook if there were any local businesses selling whistles and suggested including some in their little free libraries. Raichik posted her profile and included school contact information: “She’s looking for whistles as anti-ICE protests run rampant through the state. We all know what those are for… .”
Raichik also called for the North Carolina Board of Nursing to strip a nurse of his license after he commented on a post saying that ICE agents put Pretti in harm’s way and wrote, “Also those agents better pray they never end up in a hospital, the nurses won’t be kind,” including a laughing emoji.
Raichik doxxed the nurse, claimed that it was a “threat against ICE agents,” tagged his place of work, and then went on to tag the North Carolina Board of Nursing, adding that the man “needs to be stripped of his license.”
Raichik even directed her focus at a bakery selling anti-ICE cookies: “Send this to everyone you know in the area so they know not to support this bakery.”
Public sentiment is overwhelmingly on the side of the individuals Raichik is doxxing, but she continues her campaign of harassment regardless.
