US EditionAlex Pretti broke rib in confrontation with federal agents a week before death: CNN
Alex Pretti was shot after a prior confrontation with federal immigration officers amid a surge involving over 3,000 agents, sparking federal reviews and legal challenges.
- Alex Pretti, an intensive care nurse, was allegedly tackled by federal agents a week before his death, resulting in a broken rib.
- The Department of Homeland Security stated that Pretti was fatally shot after approaching officers while armed with a handgun and resisting disarmament.
- Gov. Tim Walz criticized DHS for sharing information about the gun on social media without a thorough investigation, stating it was unrelated to the shooting.
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Context is a real buzzkill: CNN discovers Alex Pretti’s prior ICE clash · American Wire News
New reporting has revealed that Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal immigration agents last weekend while interfering with their operations in Minneapolis, was a known troublemaker. The new info comes from CNN, which announced on Tuesday that Pretti had at least one previous encounter with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) before his death last Saturday. “[S]ources [said] that about a week before his death, he suffered a broken r…
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On January 24, a US Border Patrol agent shot and killed 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis after he was held down by multiple federal agents. The Trump administration alleged that Pretti threatened agents with a gun. But videos appear to show Pretti, who was carrying a licensed handgun, holding only his phone in his hand when he was tackled and agents disarming Pretti before he was shot and killed. Subscribe to Mother Jones podcast…
From self-defense, forces have shot Alex Pretti: Thus, the U.S. government presented the brutal intervention in Minneapolis. An investigation report now refutes this version.
These gun-rights groups got the response to Alex Pretti’s killing right
After the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis, the Trump administration’s first instinct was to spin the killing as legitimate because Pretti had been armed. That strategy is failing, and an important reason why is that the country’s premier gun-rights organizations refused to go along. At a time when issue-based activist groups increasingly bind themselves to one party or the other, that show of constitutional …
New video shows moments before Alex Pretti shot
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