Authorities say it was a split-second decision.
Protesters are calling it an execution.
In a quiet Minneapolis neighborhood, a 37-year-old ICU nurse ended up dead on the floor during a federal immigration raid.
Agents insist he was armed and resisting. Family say that doesn’t sound like Alex at al… Continues…
Neighbors woke to sirens and shouting, but the man at the center of it all can no longer speak for himself. Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a VA intensive care nurse, was killed in the chaos of a Homeland Security operation that was supposed to be “targeted” and controlled. Federal officials say he had a handgun, two magazines, and resisted as agents tried to disarm and restrain him, triggering a struggle that ended in gunfire.
Within hours, the sidewalk outside the shooting scene turned into a protest line, with signs, candles, and raw anger aimed at the growing presence of federal immigration teams in local streets. Authorities insist agents acted out of fear for their lives; critics see another example of opaque policing with lethal consequences. As investigations begin, two stories are already hardening: one of necessary force, and one of a preventable death that never should have happened.
Neighbors woke to sirens and shouting, but the man at the center of it all can no longer speak for himself.
Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a VA intensive care nurse,
was killed in the chaos of a Homeland Security operation that was supposed to be “targeted” and controlled.
Federal officials say he had a handgun, two magazines,
and resisted as agents tried to disarm and restrain him,
triggering a struggle that ended in gunfire.
Within hours, the sidewalk outside the
shooting scene turned into a protest line,
with signs, candles, and raw anger aimed
at the growing presence of federal immigration teams in local streets.
Authorities insist agents acted out of fear for their lives;
critics see another example of opaque policing with lethal consequences.
As investigations begin, two stories are already hardening: one of necessary force,
and one of a preventable death that never should have happened.
