[Video below.] Newly released video footage appears to document a volatile encounter between Alex Pretti and federal immigration agents more than a week before he was shot and killed in Minneapolis, showing behavior that authorities are now reviewing as part of their broader assessment of events leading up to his death.
The footage, which the BBC said it has verified, reportedly shows the ICU nurse yelling at federal agents as they drove away from a Jan. 13 protest, spitting in their direction and then kicking the rear of a black SUV. According to The News Movement, the video captures Pretti smashing the vehicle’s taillights, prompting officers to stop, exit the car, and subdue him.
In the recording, the man—wearing clothing similar to what Pretti was seen wearing on the day he was fatally shot last Saturday—can be seen being forced to the ground by at least five agents. As the confrontation escalated, tear gas was released into the surrounding crowd, which included protesters blowing whistles amid the chaos.
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that Homeland Security Investigations is “reviewing” the newly surfaced video, telling The Post that agents are examining the footage as part of their ongoing evaluation of Pretti’s prior interactions with federal authorities.
According to a CNN report published Tuesday, Pretti, 37, was already familiar to federal officials and had sustained a broken rib during a separate violent encounter with agents roughly a week before his death. The report said immigration officers had been tracking and documenting information about Pretti as well as other anti-ICE protesters involved in recent demonstrations in Minneapolis.
Investigators with DHS believe the fatal shooting may have been triggered by a stray discharge from Pretti’s own firearm after it was taken from him. Authorities say Pretti had a loaded pistol tucked into his belt when he inserted himself between another protester and ICE officers. Border Patrol agents tackled him, removed the weapon, and during the ensuing struggle, two agents opened fire, killing him.
Well it’s a good thing that this dog is gone. An evil scoundrel. Human debris.
Spitting and kicking out tail lights were definitely Capital offences in Trumps country of origin in the 1930’s. Lucky for all of us, especially for the Tzadikim of January 6,we have a right to trial by jury even in Trmp’fs Amerika.
once upon a time, in a country where people cared about societal cohesion, this moron would be publicly hung, or at minimum thrown into a dungeon and given crusty bread and water.
Yes, he should have a trial by jury, but that doesnt mean people cant call out the actions of this scoundrel when he clearly is an insurrectionist.
Bring back Alejandro Mayorkas!
Donald “Trumps country of origin in the 1930’s” was the United States, which is where he was born – as was his father Fred Trump (Donald’s mother was Scottish). Obviously you are incorrectly implying Germany as the alleged country of origin. And in terms of Germany in the 1930’s, there was no limit to the spitting on Jews, but I have yet to see any evidence of any punishment (let alone a capital punishment) meted out to any of those spitting on Jews. My point is that the behaviour of these people against ICE is driven by the same type of propaganda machine that drove the hatred against Jews in the 1930’s, and that on a whim that same propaganda machine could be turned against Jews here and now and these same people spitting on ICE would gleefully send the Jews into the gas chambers while calling the Jews as Nazis (the latter being common enough already). And just as a reminder, Pretti was shot because he was carrying a loaded weapon during a physical altercation with ICE when at the same time these whistle blowing noises hindered communication – which made it difficult to de-escalate the situation (in a similar manner as those focusing a laser light into pilot’s eyes endangers the plane).
Elizabeth Warren said this bum was a saint
Why did they let him go? Why didn’t they arrest him? Isn’t it illegal to damage a tail light?
You don’t have to arrest someone for everything