"Throughout the day of Saturday, 24 January, videos of the killing by ICE agents of Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse at the Veterans Administration hospital, on a street in Minneapolis were broadcast endlessly on TV news channels and seen by tens of millions online. The videos clearly showed Pretti with his phone in his hand, holding his hands up as he approached ICE agents who had pepper-sprayed a woman. He was coming to her aid, a Good Samaritan. The ICE agents instantly attacked him."
"One frame of a video shows one agent with his gun drawn, pointed at Pretti's back as he fell hands still in the air. Agents appear to have shot him 10 times in five seconds. The videos plainly refuted the falsehoods instantly contrived by Trump administration officials. Pretti, as it happened, had been legally carrying a gun in his waistband, which there is no evidence he tried to wield."
On 24 January, videos showed ICE agents killing Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse in Minneapolis, as he approached to help a pepper-sprayed woman. Footage showed Pretti holding his phone and his hands up while agents attacked; one frame captured an agent pointing a drawn gun at Pretti’s back as he fell. Agents appear to have shot him ten times in five seconds. The videos contradicted claims by Trump administration officials who tried to justify the shooting. Pretti had been legally carrying a gun but there is no evidence he attempted to use it. Officials and political leaders shifted blame toward local authorities.
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