""I was behind the line, trying to show what was happening, and they pushed me and sprayed me in the eye," Shortal said in a video posted to her Instagram page. "I was behind the line." In the caption, Shortal added that she was "clearly marked press" and standing "behind the police tape" when an agent told her to move back. She complied. But as she was doing so, a second agent pushed her."
""I yelled I am press don't push me, he shoved me again. And then I was sprayed," she wrote. "Behind the line. I played by the rules doing my job. They did not." Shortal, who lost her glasses during the commotion, has worked for Minneapolis' NBC affiliate for the past two decades. In 2024, she won a Regional Emmy for Best Anchor (Upper Midwest)."
A 37-year-old U.S. citizen and ICU nurse, Alex Pretti, was sprayed, beaten and fatally shot by a group of federal agents in south Minneapolis and continued to be shot while motionless. Jana Shortal, a queer longtime KARE 11 reporter, was on scene minutes after the shooting and was standing behind the press line and police tape when an agent ordered the press to move. Shortal was shoved twice, sprayed in the eye, lost her glasses and returned to the studio to describe a chaotic scene that escalated when agents aggressively moved the press line.
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