A forensic body language expert is challenging the Department of Homeland Security’s account of Alex Pretti’s death, pointing viewers to an ICE agent in a gray jacket who appears to remove a gun, turn away, and run as the unarmed ICU nurse is shot in the back by ICE agents.
Minneapolis is once again under the national spotlight following two fatal ICE-involved shootings within a matter of weeks. First, it was Renee Nicole Good; now, outrage is growing over the killing of 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti during an anti-ICE protest on Jan. 24.
Speaking to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), President Donald Trump defended the ICE operation, describing Pretti’s firearm – allegedly pulled from his waistband – as “a very dangerous and unpredictable gun…a gun that goes off when people don’t know it.”
“I don’t like any shooting. I don’t like it,” Trump told the WSJ in the Jan. 25 article. “But I don’t like it when somebody goes into a protest and he’s got a very powerful, fully loaded gun with two magazines loaded up with bullets also. That doesn’t play good either.”