{"id":436743,"date":"2026-01-29T11:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T11:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/436743\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T11:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T11:36:12","slug":"videos-show-altercation-between-alex-pretti-and-federal-officers-11-days-before-he-was-killed-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/436743\/","title":{"rendered":"Videos show altercation between Alex Pretti and federal officers 11 days before he was killed | US news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Videos emerged on Wednesday of a previous confrontation between Alex Pretti and federal agents, 11 days before the ICU nurse was fatally shot by federal officers in Minneapolis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

About two minutes of video, published on Wednesday by The News Movement, a digital news outlet, shows an incident on 13 January in Minneapolis<\/a> in which officers appeared to grab Pretti and bring him to the ground during intense community protests against the federal crackdown in the city.<\/p>\n

It is unclear what preceded the events caught on camera, but the footage shows Pretti yelling at agents in an unmarked vehicle and kicking the tail light of the car as they move away. Soon after, a heavily armed agent in tactical gear is seen exiting the car and appears to tackle Pretti to the ground while other officers crowd around.<\/p>\n

Pretti appeared to break free from the officers soon after, and then stood and remained on the scene as agents left. After Pretti\u2019s coat was pulled off by the officers, the News Movement video shows what appears to be a gun in his waistband. Pretti, who state officials confirmed had a permit to carry a concealed handgun, never touched it during or after the altercation.<\/p>\n

A family representative confirmed to the Guardian that it was Pretti in the footage published on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Steve Schleicher, an attorney representing Pretti\u2019s family, said in a statement, \u201cA week before Alex was gunned down in the street \u2013 despite posing no threat to anyone \u2013 he was violently assaulted by a group of ICE agents. Nothing that happened a full week before could possibly have justified Alex\u2019s killing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"SecondSecond federal killing in Minneapolis: how the shooting of Alex Pretti unfolded \u2013 video analysis<\/p>\n

A representative for the family also said they had been aware of the incident and that Pretti sustained injuries, but did not get medical care.<\/p>\n

The Minnesota<\/a> Star Tribune on Wednesday published a separate bystander video of the same incident, showing officers tackling Pretti. Max Shapiro, a witness who filmed the interaction, told the newspaper: \u201cHe got slammed to the ground pretty hard.\u201d The footage ends with Shapiro approaching Pretti and asking if he is OK, with Pretti responding, \u201cI\u2019m OK. Are we all OK? Are we all safe?\u201d<\/p>\n

A third video of the incident, posted on YouTube the day it happened, gives a sense of the roiling anger over the immigration enforcement operation under way, with cars honking and people blowing whistles to alert their neighbors to the presence of federal agents.<\/p>\n

Pretti and the other protesters confronted federal agents that day just four blocks away from where Renee Good had been killed by an ICE officer<\/a> the week before.<\/p>\n

All of the videos show that during the incident, agents fired teargas and pepper balls into the crowd as they continued to hold Pretti down. The chaotic footage shows other residents gathering and yelling at the officers in the aftermath.<\/p>\n

A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said in an email Wednesday night that they were reviewing the footage.<\/p>\n

It is not clear from the footage what exactly prompted Pretti\u2019s apparent anger at agents.<\/p>\n

A person holds a picture during a vigil for Alex Pretti on 28 January. Photograph: John Locher\/AP<\/p>\n

Sahan Journal<\/a>, a local outlet that covers immigrant communities, reported from the area that day that a crowd of more than 100 people had gathered to observe and protest following reports of ICE\u2019s presence in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

The outlet reported that one woman was forcibly removed from her vehicle after officers smashed her window. Aisha Gomez, a state representative, was also at the scene and told the outlet that agents had tackled another man and pushed his head into the ground before carrying him away.<\/p>\n

Gomez told the outlet officers had gotten physical with her, too, saying, \u201cI was shoved with no verbal communication whatsoever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jacob Frey, Minneapolis\u2019 mayor, was asked about the footage at a CNN town hall and responded that he did not consider it relevant to his fatal killing 11 days later.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we should be talking about the circumstances that actually led to the killing and what took place and those circumstances,\u201d the mayor said.<\/p>\n

Trump administration officials initially claimed Pretti was \u201cbrandishing\u201d a gun<\/a> on the day that he was killed and intended to \u201cmassacre\u201d officers \u2013 claims that were contradicted by video<\/a> that showed him holding a phone, not a gun.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting,\u201d Pretti\u2019s family said in a statement<\/a> shortly after he was killed. \u201cAlex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump\u2019s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs \u2026 Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Videos emerged on Wednesday of a previous confrontation between Alex Pretti and federal agents, 11 days before the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-436743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}