"Former Minneapolis City Council president Andrea Jenkins was moving slowly through the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C., navigating toward a bank of elevators on her mobility scooter, when she reached for a small whistle hanging around her neck and lifted it for The Advocate to see. "This," she said, "is what people are carrying now." The conversation took place on Friday, as the National LGBTQ Task Force's annual Creating Change Conference, the nation's largest gathering of LGBTQ+ activists, organizers, and policymakers, unfolded around her."
"One day later, on Saturday, Minneapolis would reel again, this time from the killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a south Minneapolis resident, U.S. citizen, and Veterans Affairs intensive care unit nurse who was shot by federal agents during an enforcement operation. According to videos from the scene, Pretti was filming agents and tried to help a woman who had been pushed to the ground by a federal officer, and slipped on a patch of ice before he was executed on the street."
Andrea Jenkins moved through the Washington Hilton on a mobility scooter, carrying a small whistle as a symbol of increased safety precautions. The National LGBTQ Task Force's Creating Change Conference convened LGBTQ+ activists, organizers, and policymakers amid rising worries about federal enforcement. Minneapolis experienced another fatality when Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a U.S. citizen and VA ICU nurse, was shot by federal agents while filming and attempting to help a woman; he slipped on ice and was then executed on the street. Pretti had a concealed-carry permit and a holstered gun he did not brandish. His death followed the ICE killing of Renée Nicole Good, intensifying protests and scrutiny of federal actions.
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