"Video of the fatal incident Saturday showed Pretti facing off with federal agents holding an iPhone then being thrown to the ground and beaten by around six or seven men. A first shot is then fired before at least nine more and Pretti falls still. It is not clear from the footage which agent fired the first shot, or the ones that ultimately killed Pretti."
"In a sworn declaration as part of a lawsuit against ICE, a pediatric doctor who attended to Pretti after he had been shot said he had at least three bullet holes in is back, as well as several others on different parts of his body. Pretti's death was the second fatal shooting of a protester in Minneapolis in less than three weeks, after Renee Nicole Good was shot by ICE agent Jonathan Ross on January 7 - sparking further protests and ramping up tensions."
"Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to Donald Trump, said border agents who shot dead a protester on Saturday may have failed to follow protocol as set out by the White House. Mr Miller, the architect of the US president's mass deportation programme, had initially claimed Alex Pretti was an "assassin" who attempted to murder agents before he was shot and killed on Saturday."
Federal agents shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti during a protest in Minneapolis; agents involved were placed on leave while investigations continue. Video showed Pretti facing federal agents holding an iPhone, then being thrown to the ground and beaten by six or seven men before a first shot was fired and at least nine more followed. Footage does not make clear which agent fired the initial or fatal shots. A pediatric doctor in a sworn declaration said Pretti had at least three bullet holes in his back and other wounds. Pretti was legally carrying a gun that an officer confiscated before he was shot. The shooting followed the fatal January 7 killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent, increasing protests and tensions, and Stephen Miller initially called Pretti an 'assassin' while President Trump later contradicted that characterization.
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