"Pretti was trying to help a woman whom federal agents shoved violently to the ground. A fellow ICE observer, the woman flew a few feet through the air and landed hard; it had to hurt. "Are you OK?" Pretti asked her, according to bystanders. Those were his last known words. He kept trying to help the woman, and the agents kept trying to stop him, finally shooting him in the head at close range, execution-style, and then at least nine more times."
"The last Minnesotan murdered in the federal occupation of Minneapolis, just more than two weeks ago, was Renee Good, a mother, a poet, and a lesbian, whose last words to her murderer, Jonathan Ross, were, "I'm not mad at you, dude," as she smiled at him. According to his own phone video recording, Ross's first words after he shot Good were "Fucking bitch.""
Federal agents killed 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis after he tried to help a woman who had been violently shoved to the ground. Bystanders report Pretti asked "Are you OK?" before agents shot him in the head at close range and then fired at least nine additional times, and he died at the scene. Two weeks earlier, Renee Good was killed in Minneapolis during an encounter with Jonathan Ross, whose own phone video recorded his profanity after the shooting. Federal officials publicly characterized Pretti as "brandishing" a weapon despite video evidence, and investigations and public outrage are ongoing.
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