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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe most Damning vid of todays MN murder showing ICE for who they are is the PINK lady video
She uploaded it at Reddit.
https://files.catbox.moe/sp296e.mp4
He was NOT armed. UPDATED - He was NOT waving a weapon as earlier reports stated. I believe it was in his holster and removed by ICE during the struggle.
May you find justice, Mr Alex Jeffrey Pretti.
Minnesota Public Radio reported a statement from a witness to the shooting:
"The gentleman I was standing next to was focused on helping people who were coming into Nicollet Avenue understand that they needed to take it slow and helping them get through. The ICE agents approached us, told us to [']back up, back up.['] I'm not even sure why[]we were helping them, if anything. And I got on the snow bank, and next thing I knew, they shot him."
FROM WIKI -
Alex Pretti
The individual was identified as Alex Jeffrey Pretti of south Minneapolis, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen.[2][3][4][2] Records showed he was a graduate of the University of Minnesota and held an active nurse's license as of 2021.[5][6] Pretti's parents said he was an intensive care nurse.[7] Pretti worked in health science and with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.[7][6]
According to local officials, Pretti was a lawful gun owner and had a permit to carry a gun.[8][9] A DHS statement claimed the victim was carrying two magazines and no ID.[10] Law enforcement reported that he had no serious criminal history; records searches turned up traffic tickets.[5]
KewlKat
(5,793 posts)ABC123Easy
(101 posts)You're saying he was NOT armed but he had a gun?
Callie1979
(1,194 posts)KewlKat
(5,793 posts)He was holding a phone and other reports are saying he may have had a weapon in a holster and during that struggle, the ICE agents removed it PRIOR to his being shot.
I'll fix my OP.
ABC123Easy
(101 posts)Callie1979
(1,194 posts)Make THEM feel some fear. Moms, dads, kids whatever. Make 'em scared. Make them tell their husband/dad/son "You need to get another job"
Whoever is good at sleuthing can find these fuckers names.
Mike Nelson
(10,934 posts)... we are well-advised to keep our iPhone cameras on... record everything, because they will lie. Mr. Pretti appeared to be trying to help the protestors... and I didn't see him pull a gun on ICE.
KewlKat
(5,793 posts)Wonder who got HIS cellphone? He had been recording most of the time.
mackdaddy
(1,952 posts)From a car just down the street. They blast the victim and as soon as the shooting stops you can see this agent in black clap twice like someone scored a basket.
He is clapping for agents riddling a man's body with bullets....
chowder66
(11,916 posts)lostnfound
(17,430 posts)It does not escape me that one ICE guy decided to push a woman to the ground and a DIFFERENT ICE guy murdered Mr. Pretti for
having tried to protect the woman?
Mr. Pretti seems like a very worthy man.
ICE, not so much.
Norrrm
(4,195 posts)Prairie Gates
(7,369 posts)Camera in one hand, the other hand empty. Before the incident, during the attempt to rescue the other person being attacked, and to the ground. This guy never made a single move for his weapon.
In fact, they more or less bundled him into the red backpack person as he was trying to disentangle himself.
There are five or six separate recordings of this incident from every angle and not one supports the ICE/Bovino/Noem position.
This man was at the very least killed in a negligent homicide. Minimum.
D_Master81
(2,362 posts)Nothing will ever happen. This is clear murder on video. Im sorry but you cant just claim I feared for my life every time you F up. There was like 6 guys on top of him. Residing arrest is a minor charge not a death sentence.