New Video Shows Pretti Spitting At Agents Days Before Fatal Shooting

A newly released video appears to show Alex Pretti spitting at federal agents and damaging a government SUV days before he was fatally shot by U.S. Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis. The News Movement released the video on Wednesday, reporting it was recorded on Jan. 13.
The footage shows a man resembling Pretti, wearing a beard, glasses, and clothing similar to what he was wearing when he was killed, Fox News reported.
The video shows the man yelling at federal agents, spitting, and kicking a federal SUV’s taillight, causing it to shatter.
He repeatedly shouts profanities, flashes both middle fingers, and approaches the vehicle as agents exit and take him to the ground.
Agents fired pepper balls and deployed tear gas toward a nearby crowd of demonstrators as the altercation continued, though the man was ultimately released.
After stepping away from the agents, what appears to be a firearm is visible in the man’s waistband.
Rather than leaving the area, he remained with other demonstrators who continued shouting obscenities at federal law enforcement officers.
Pretti’s family confirmed to the Minnesota Star Tribune that the individual seen in the video is Alex Pretti. “A week before Alex was gunned down in the street, despite posing no threat to anyone, he was violently assaulted by a group of ICE agents,” Steve Schleicher, an attorney for the Pretti family, told Fox News. “Nothing that happened a full week before could possibly have justified Alex’s killing at the hands of ICE on Jan. 24,” Schleicher said.
Pretti, a 37 year old Department of Veterans Affairs ICU nurse, was shot and killed by Border Patrol agents while recording federal immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis.
Video from the fatal shooting appears to show Pretti attempting to assist a woman who had been knocked to the ground by agents.