1. United States
2. Ohio
3. Letter

Just days after ICE agents shot and killed an unarmed mother of three in her car in Minneapolis, the administration’s secret police force has done it again. Federal immigration agents have now killed another Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse who worked at the VA. Per usual, the facts are being aggressively distorted by the administration in real time, as they fire up the propaganda machine. According to early reporting and video footage from the scene, approximately six ICE agents confronted a single protester, Pretti, who was not posing a threat to officers and appeared to be filming ICE activity in the street. Despite the overwhelming numerical advantage, ICE agents responded by shoving him, tackling him to the ground, and shooting him multiple times, killing a man whose job was literally to save lives. This is now the second fatal ICE shooting of an American citizen in Minneapolis in just weeks. Almost immediately, the Department of Homeland Security issued a statement attempting to justify the killing. We have video footage of the beginning of the encounter, and it directly contradicts DHS’s claims. In the video, you can plainly see that: - Pretti is not approaching officers. - He is not brandishing a firearm. - He is holding a phone, apparently recording ICE activity. A reminder: It is completely legal to record law enforcement in public. There is no expectation of privacy on a public street. If DHS’s justification hinges on the claim that Pretti “approached officers with a handgun,” then DHS has no justification at all, because that did not happen. They’re manufacturing a reality to justify the unjustifiable.