Alex Pretti appeared to confront ICE brokers days earlier than he was shot, video exhibits | EUROtoday

Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old nurse fatally shot by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis on Saturday, appeared to confront federal brokers lower than two weeks earlier than his loss of life, newly revealed video footage exhibits.

A video revealed by The News Movement, a digital media firm, appeared to indicate Pretti kicking a authorities car and being tackled to the bottom on a metropolis avenue January 13.

The BBC reported on Wednesday that the person within the video “has the same coat, facial hair and gait as Alex Pretti and a facial recognition tool suggests a 97% match.”

In the two-minute video clip, a person will be seen speeding towards a federal car and yelling earlier than kicking out its taillight. He seems to be carrying a gun above his waistband.

An agent then exits the car and pushes Pretti to the bottom earlier than being assisted by different brokers. A gaggle of bystanders will be seen close by, a few of whom had been filming and shouting on the federal brokers.

“During the altercation, agents fired tear gas and pepper balls into the crowd,” The News Movement narrator says. “They continued to hold the man down before they retreat and he walks away.”

The clip went viral on X on Wednesday, with numerous Republican commentators pointing to it as proof that Pretti was not a peaceable protestor.

The Independent has contacted the Department of Homeland Security and the BBC Press Office for remark.

Pretti, a Minneapolis resident and intensive care nurse, was shot and killed by federal brokers on Saturday, turning into the third capturing by brokers that’s taken place this month through the Trump administration’s ongoing Minnesota crackdown.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller alleged that Pretti was a “domestic terrorist” who “tried to assassinate federal law enforcement.”

During a press convention over the weekened, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara mentioned that the deceased man was a U.S. citizen, whose solely earlier contact with legislation enforcement was for visitors violations and that he seemed to be a licensed gun proprietor.

Clips of the encounter that beforehand circulated don’t present Pretti approaching officers with a gun drawn. One video exhibits a number of brokers wrestling with a person on a Minneapolis avenue earlier than practically a dozen photographs are fired. Another exhibits a person that seems to be Pretti shouting at brokers after they shoved a lady to the bottom.

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