"Video evidence shows that Pretti, an ICU nurse at Minneapolis' V.A. hospital, never threatened law enforcement. Instead, Pretti stood between an agent and a woman whom the agent had shoved to the ground, holding his cell phone in one hand and trying to protect himself from pepper spray with the other. Despite his non-threatening movements, multiple agents tackled Pretti to the ground."
"The Homeland Security Secretary labeled Pretti a "domestic terrorist," just like Renee Good, another Minneapolis resident whom agents shot and killed while she was turning her car away from them. Echoing embattled FBI Director Kash Patel, Noem also insinuated that Pretti deserved his fate, because he legally brought a gun to a protest."
""He was there to perpetuate violence, and he was asked to show up and to continue to resist by a governor who's irresponsible and has a long history of corruption and lying, and we won't stand for it anymore," she said."
Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis V.A., stood between an agent and a woman and held his phone while shielding himself from pepper spray. Multiple agents tackled Pretti despite no visible threat. Pretti was a licensed gun owner legally carrying a firearm, which an agent removed, and seconds later he was shot ten times at close range. Kristi Noem publicly defended the agents and characterized Pretti as a violent instigator, calling him a domestic terrorist and echoing claims that bringing a gun to a protest justified lethal force. The incident is compared to another fatal shooting of Renee Good.
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