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Federal immigration officials have Shooting another American citizen exist minneapolisjust 17 days after they shot and killed Renee Goode.
victims shooting identified as Alex Pretty37. He was filming an operation involving Homeland Security agents near 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis on Saturday morning.
Open source Capture events as they occur In the photo, Preeti walks to help two people on the sidewalk near the agents, who then begin pepper-spraying the group.
The victim was restrained and dragged to the ground by at least five agents. Video shows Border Patrol agents struggling with Preeti on the ground and hitting him when gunshots were heard. Moments later, an agent fired several shots and Preeti fell to the pavement.
Ten shots were fired within five seconds.
Immediately after the shooting, agents backed away from Pretty’s body, and one of the agents, who appeared to be holding a gun, fled the scene and hid behind a nearby car.
federal government—and president donald trump – alleges that Preeti approached agents with the intention of carrying out an attack with a pistol, which they claimed was recovered from the scene of the incident.
They provided no evidence that he ever drew his weapon and declined to answer questions about a detailed timeline of how the confrontation unfolded.
In Minnesota, it is legal to carry a licensed handgun.
Information about the victims is limited at this time. Preti lives in south Minneapolis and his only criminal record is a traffic ticket. minneapolis star tribune.
According to Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara, Pretty is a legal gun owner and has a license to carry a weapon.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that Preti was carrying the equivalent of two magazines of ammunition and had no identification on him.
Preity’s parents reportedly told The Associated Press that Preity was an intensive care unit nurse. He obtained his nursing license in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic, and KARE11 Confirmed He worked for the Department of Veterans Affairs, which provides health care and other services to U.S. veterans.
Alex’s father, Michael Pretti, told the New York Times: “He cared deeply about people and he was very disturbed by what was happening with ICE in Minneapolis and across the United States, just like millions of people were disturbed as well.” Associated Press. “He felt that protesting was a way to show he cared about others.”
Dr. Dimitri Drekonja, an infectious disease physician and professor at the University of Minnesota who worked with Preti at the Veterans Administration, said in an article published in BlueSky. He said Preeti was committed to helping critically ill veterans and described him as having a great attitude and recalled often discussing mountain biking trips together.
“Alex Pretti was a colleague at the Veterans Administration. We hired him to recruit people for our trial. He became an ICU nurse – I [loved] Work with him. He was a kind and good man who lived to help others and these damn people executed him,” Drekonja wrote. “White. Heat. Anger.”
On Saturday, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz held a press conference after the shooting, rejecting attempts by the Department of Homeland Security to paint Pretty as a violent criminal and describing the shooting as self-defense.
“Thank God we have the video because, according to DHS, these seven heroes stormed them with a battalion or whatever,” he explain. “That’s nonsense, friends. It’s nonsense and it’s a lie.”
The Minneapolis Senate delegation released a statement identifying Pretty as the victim of Saturday’s shooting.
“While we await more details, we express our deepest condolences to Alex Pretty, his family and friends, and the entire community affected by this violent incident. We are committed to doing everything we can to ensure those responsible are brought to justice,” the statement said.
Democratic Senator and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries also addressed the issue of Pretty’s killing and vowed to hold the agents involved criminally accountable.
“Masked and lawless agents of the Department of Homeland Security brutally murdered another American citizen in Minneapolis,” he said in a statement. “Donald Trump’s extremists unleashed this carnage on America’s streets. They must all be held criminally accountable to the full extent of the law.”
Pretty’s death, like Goode’s, sparked widespread protests on the streets of Minneapolis.
On Saturday, MSNOW’s Alex Witt reported that she received a statement from the Department of Homeland Security saying the shooting would be investigated by DHS, not the FBI. The Department of Homeland Security has issued a statement claiming Preti threatened to shoot federal agents and that the shooting was in self-defense.
“I just got something handed to me – a statement from the Department of Homeland Security – that it will investigate the shooting death of a 37-year-old protester who was shot by its officers, not the FBI,” Vitter explain On the radio. “So they’re going to look into the summary that they’ve released. It looks like a closed book.”