"Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes. …The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn’t see him touch any of them — he wasn’t even turned toward them. It didn’t look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn’t see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times. … I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don’t feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don’t know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they’re not telling the truth about what happened."
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Alex Pretti
Alex Jeffrey Pretti (9 November 1988 - 24 January 2026) was an American intensive care nurse for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, who was shot and killed by United States Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His killing occurred amid widespread protests against a federal immigration crackdown and followed the fatal shooting of Renée Good, also by federal officers.
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