US Edition'Get the truth out about our son' say family of man shot dead by federal officer in Minneapolis
The shooting intensified protests and political debate over federal immigration enforcement; Pretti’s family disputes claims he was armed amid conflicting witness accounts.
- Saturday, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old Minneapolis ICU nurse, was shot and killed during an encounter with immigration officials, according to authorities.
- DHS said agents were conducting a targeted operation against an undocumented man wanted for assault when Pretti approached U.S. Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun, prompting agents to fire in self-defense in Minneapolis.
- Bystander videos show Alex Pretti holding a phone and shielding a woman being pepper-sprayed while federal immigration officers restrain him before firing a dozen rounds as he lay on the ground.
- Family members pleaded for transparency and said they could not get information; Michael Pretti and Susan Pretti urged, `Please get the truth out about our son.`
- This is the third ICE-related shooting in Minneapolis, and Noem said `This looks like a situation where an individual arrived at the scene to inflict maximum damage on individuals and to kill law enforcement.
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Federal Agents Kill Again; Gunmen Still At Large
On Saturday in Minneapolis, federal agents surrounded 37-year-old Veterans Affairs intensive care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, who'd been filming them in the street with his phone camera as they conducted the federal government's violent invasion and occupation of the city. Video taken by others on the scene shows that agents pepper-sprayed and tackled Pretti as he attempted to assist a protester whom an agent had shoved to the ground without prov…
Celebrities React to Alex Pretti's Shooting at Hands of ICE Agent
On Saturday (January 24), a 37-year-old ICU nurse named Alex Pretti was fatally shot and killed by an ICE Agent in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Department of Homeland Security claimed that he “violently resisted,” but video evidence analyzed by news outlets and citizens “show a federal ...
Sofia Yohannes, SVT's US correspondent, is at the scene where Alex Pretti was shot to death by a federal agent on Saturday. Residents in the area have gathered at the scene to show their support for the victim and their opposition to ICE. “It feels unifying,” says Breven, who lives nearby.
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