"TOM FOREMAN: This video just gets worse and worse and worse for the White House and what they've been claiming! Let's start with the general set up here. About 7 minutes of video before all this happens and it puts everything in deeper context. Let's talk first with the general street scene here and let this play out. What had happened according to witnesses is that a group of ICE agents had been in pursuit of somebody who they say was an undocumented immigrant."
"Let's look at the other image here. Now you see one of the officers here with pepper spray in his hand. Even though again, we're talking about according to witnesses only about ten people across the street from them. Not pushing up on them not necessarily crowding them. You hear the whistles in the background. It's a warning sign that many protesters have out there to say ICE is in the area."
A seven-minute video obtained by the Associated Press shows the events leading up to the killing of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis and challenges the Trump administration's claims. The footage captures ICE agents pursuing an alleged undocumented immigrant who ran into a locked building while about ten protesters stood across the street filming from a distance. An officer is shown holding pepper spray. Whistles sound in the background as warnings to protesters that ICE is present. The context provided by the extended footage portrays the crowd as not aggressive and undermines the official narrative about imminent danger.
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