"AP Like many Americans, I was horrified by the footage that emerged on Saturday showing an American citizen killed in cold blood. The video is difficult to watch. Its power comes not only from the violence itself, but from how quickly it strips a human being of context, history, and dignity. A freeze frame from that footage has since gone viral. It captures the instant Alex Pretti was shot, frozen in time and circulated as proof of outrageous government overreach, if not outright murder."
"The nation came to know Alex Pretti in the worst conceivable way on Saturday. His name entered public consciousness through violence, stripped of biography and context. Almost immediately, it became shorthand in an ugly debate that does little to honor him. That debate has crowded out the more important work of understanding the life he lived and the values he practiced"
"Alex Pretti was a VA ICU nurse in Minneapolis. He spent his professional life caring for veterans at their most vulnerable, when fear and pain were constant, and when competence and compassion mattered most. This was not symbolic service. It was daily, demanding work with people who had already given much of themselves to the country. He chose that work. That choice matters."
Footage showed an American citizen killed in cold blood; the video is difficult to watch and quickly stripped a human being of context, history, and dignity. A freeze-frame captured Alex Pretti's death and went viral, circulating as proof of government overreach and becoming a symbol of outrage. Public debate focused on outrage and narratives that hardened almost instantly, crowding out efforts to understand Pretti's life. Alex Pretti served as a VA ICU nurse in Minneapolis, caring daily for veterans at their most vulnerable, a chosen, demanding form of civic service.
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