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Videos contradict official claims as Border Patrol agents shoot Alex Pretti, raising questions about use of force during immigration enforcement protests, with Pretti seen unarmed on video.
- Around 9 a.m. Saturday, a Border Patrol agent shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti after a roughly 30-second scuffle in Minneapolis; it was the second fatal shooting by federal immigration authorities this month.
- Amid the administration's Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis, protesters routinely tried to disrupt enforcement, following an earlier Jan. 7 fatal shooting involving Renee Good and a man in the country illegally wanted for domestic assault.
- Bystander videos show Alex Pretti holding only a phone, officers backing away with guns drawn, one officer appearing to draw a weapon seconds before the first shot, then at least a half-dozen federal officers wrestle him down.
- Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called the footage sickening and denounced masked agents, while DHS said Pretti approached Border Patrol officers with a gun and fired defensive shots after he violently resisted, with agents recovering a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun.
- The emergence of footage has intensified scrutiny of Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis and St. Paul, as the second fatal shooting this month deepens divides among political leaders.
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Again, in the US city of Minneapolis, fatal shots are fired at an ICE official. Critics speak of an overreaction, the U.S. government represents the incident as self-defense. What is known? And how does it go on now?
Videos Of Deadly Minneapolis Shooting Contradict Government Statements
Videos quickly emerged showing the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis protester by a Border Patrol agent that has been widely denounced as a case of excessive force carried out by untrained federal officers.
After Alex Pretti's death, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security claims that the 37-year-old approached the officials with his gun before they shot him. Several video recordings contradict this portrayal.
Donald Trump's government, which calls any criticism it receives a lie, has been entangled in the last few hours in a tangle of falsehoods and misinformation to try to justify the death on Saturday in Minneapolis of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse, at the hands of ICE agents, Trump-driven immigration police.
Videos of deadly Minneapolis shooting contradict government statements - Boston News, Weather, Sports
Videos quickly emerged showing the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis protester by a Border Patrol agent that has been widely denounced as a case of excessive force carried out by untrained federal officers. The administration says it was a case of an armed man provoking violence. The Associated Press reviewed multiple bystander videos that show a Border Patrol agent shooting and killing 37-year-old Alex Pretti after a roughly 30-second scuffle aro…
Alex Pretti, 37, was shot dead in the second fatal shooting of U.S. agents in the city in less than a month.
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