"The day Alex Pretti was shot 10 times in the street by federal agents, I was delivering a eulogy for my grandfather, who died the way we're supposed to: old, asleep, surrounded by family. Because it's my job to coordinate visuals for this website, I locked myself in a bathroom stall, watched a video of the shooting twice, and emailed a photographer, asking if he could get onto the streets and start documenting what was happening in Minneapolis."
"As I reviewed photos of protesters and tear gas in the wake of his death, I didn't realize, in the hours before his name was released to the public, that the man millions of people had seen lying facedown on the pavement from multiple angles of eyewitness video was my childhood best friend. We have become familiar with being barraged by videos of people we do not know getting detained and ripped from their families and beaten by agents whose salaries we pay."
Alex Pretti was shot ten times in the street by federal agents while a woman was delivering a eulogy for her grandfather. A visuals coordinator locked herself in a bathroom stall, watched a video of the shooting twice, and emailed a photographer to document events in Minneapolis. Review of protest photos and tear gas footage revealed that the man widely seen lying facedown on the pavement was the woman's childhood best friend. Both grew up across the street from each other in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in a newly built treeless subdivision. Alex is described as an easy, generous, curious, sweet playmate. Intimate memories connect to the broader circulation of violent videos through social media.
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