US EditionMultiple Outlets Say Video and Witness Accounts Contradict Trump Administration Narrative in Minnesota Shooting
Multiple videos and eyewitnesses challenge the Department of Homeland Security's claim that Alex Pretti violently resisted, showing agents using pepper spray and physical force first.
- Updated / Sunday, 25 Jan 2026 13:29: Immigration agents shot dead Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old Veterans Affairs nurse, in Minneapolis yesterday, while video footage appears to contradict the Trump administration's account.
- Department of Homeland Security said Alex Pretti approached US Border Patrol agents with a 9mm handgun and resisted, and Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said `Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, an agent fired defensive shots`.
- In one clip, bystanders capture how Alex Pretti held a phone filming after a woman protester was pepper-sprayed, officers pulled him down, an officer in grey reached into his waist, and agents then opened fire as a man asks, "Where's the gun?".
- Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey asked for National Guard help and canceled police days off as protesters clashed Saturday and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz activated the Guard.
- The New York Times analysis found agents fired at least 10 shots in about five seconds, state investigators said federal agents initially blocked public sidewalk access, and DHS posted on X a photo of a handgun found on Pretti.
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The murder of a nurse in Minneapolis... the man shot by agents Ice... two eyewitnesses claim the 37-year-old was unarmed.
The videos and eyewitness accounts show that Pretti wasn't holding a weapon, but rather a cell phone. These facts contradict statements made by the federal government.
Massie says carrying gun not 'death sentence' after Pretti shooting
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) defended the “Constitutionally protected God-given right” to carry a firearm after a Minneapolis protester carrying a handgun was shot by a Border Patrol agent on Saturday. The Trump administration is defending federal law enforcement after a shooting left Alex Pretti, 37, dead, with video showing he was disarmed before being shot multiple times. Pretti was helping another protester who had been shoved to the ground whe…
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