A newly launched video seems to indicate 37-year-old Alex Pretti confronting federal immigration officers on a Minneapolis road 11 days earlier than he was fatally shot in one other encounter with Customs and Border Safety brokers.
The video was recorded on Jan. 13 and posted Wednesday by The Information Motion, a digital media outlet. It reveals a person, believed to be Pretti, confronting federal brokers together with different protesters. The video was verified by CBS Information companion BBC Information, and CBS Information has confirmed the footage was filmed in Minneapolis.
Within the video, the person is seen kicking and damaging the taillight of a authorities SUV. The automobile then stops, and federal brokers emerge and sort out him to the bottom.
There seems to be a handgun in his waistband — as was additionally seen in footage from the day Pretti was killed.
The video doesn’t point out whether or not the person was detained by federal officers following the Jan. 13 incident.
Later within the video, officers deploy chemical irritants on the street as quite a few different individuals shout, honk their horns or stand round filming the scene on their telephones.
A Division of Homeland Safety official advised CBS Information investigators with Homeland Safety Investigations had been conscious of the video and are analyzing it.
Different video from the scene that day additionally reveals a person who resembles Pretti carrying the identical clothes as seen within the footage posted by The Information Motion.
Pretti was carrying very comparable clothes in footage from Saturday, Jan. 24, the day he was shot and killed.
Pretti, an intensive care nurse with the Veterans Administration, was shot as he and several other others protested an operation by immigration officers in south Minneapolis. Videos from the scene confirmed that he had a cellphone in his hand earlier than being shoved to the bottom by a number of officers, one in all whom removes a gun from Pretti’s waist throughout a skirmish moments earlier than he was shot.
Trump administration officers have alleged that the photographs fired by the brokers had been “defensive” in nature.
Pretti was a lawful gun proprietor with a allow to hold, native officers stated. Underneath Minnesota legislation, it is authorized to hold a handgun in public you probably have a legitimate allow.
In response to a authorities report despatched to Congress and obtained by CBS News, two CBP brokers fired their weapons through the encounter.
The brokers concerned within the incident have been placed on leave, a federal legislation enforcement official advised CBS Information Wednesday.
