US EditionSpringsteen Surprises at Anti-ICE Benefit for Pretti, Good Families
The Department of Justice probes the shooting of Alex Pretti, a nurse who intervened during protests; two federal officers are on leave amid conflicting accounts of the incident.
- On Saturday, Jan. 24, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced that the Department of Justice would investigate the killing of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA nurse, by federal agents outside Glam Doll Donuts.
- Heavily armored federal units had been operating in South Minneapolis neighborhoods, conducting raids that drew local ire and heightened tensions after Renee Good, 37, was killed by an ICE officer earlier this month.
- Reportedly, Pretti had a permitted 9 mm pistol, but video and eyewitness accounts show he was using his phone when officers fired, contradicting DHS's initial claim.
- In the hours after the shooting, federal agents fired tear gas on protesters who regrouped and built a memorial at the scene, with hundreds planning memorial rides worldwide, organizers said.
- Pretti was the third person shot by federal agents in the area last Saturday, with DHS framing it as self-defense while a benefit concert organized by Tom Morello raised funds for his family.
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An Ocean of Frozen Flowers Grows Where Alex Pretti Was Killed
The bitter wind blows out the candles and the flowers wilt, victims of the cold. But Alex Pretti’s memorial continues to grow. Seven days after Mr. Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse, was shot dead by federal agents on a Minneapolis street, tributes to him and denunciations of ICE have steadily spread outward from the site of the shooting, claiming walls, windows, and street poles on the block where died. The makeshift memorial along Nicollet Avenue, a…
Media's Fake News: Alex Pretti Was an American Hero
Over a photo of an attractive young woman in a mob holding a professionally printed sign saying, “Alex Pretti was an American Hero,” Yahoo’s headline reads, “Thousands rally in Minneapolis as immigration anger boils.” The first paragraph reads: “Thousands of protesters rallied in Minneapolis on Friday in the latest show of anger over US President Donald […] The post Media’s Fake News: Alex Pretti Was an American Hero appeared first on www.indepe…
Thousands of people have concentrated this Friday in the center of Minneapolis city, in the state of Minnesota, against the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) and the anti-immigration policies deployed by the Trump administration, after the death just a week ago of Alex Pretti at the hands of a federal agent, the second death behind the back of this police force.On a new day of protest, which has also spread to other cities in the Uni…
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