"The News Movement was the outlet that captured the incident on Jan. 13. It said in an X post that it appears to be Alex Pretti interacting with federal immigration agents and that it had the clip analyzed by the BBC, whose facial recognition technology confirmed his identify to a 97% degree of accuracy. The BBC confirmed the authenticity of the video in their 10 p.m. GMT news broadcast."
"Reporter Ros Atkins said the man in the video has the same coat, facial hair and gait as Alex Pretti and a facial recognition tool suggests a 97% match. We see him shouting abuse at the agents. Separately, a spokesperson for the BBC confirmed to Mediaite that they reviewed the footage and concluded the man in the video is 97% likely to be Alex Pretti."
Footage from Jan. 13 appears to show Alex Pretti interacting with federal immigration agents in Minneapolis. Facial recognition analysis by the BBC matched the man in the footage to Pretti at 97% accuracy and the BBC confirmed the video's authenticity. The man wore a black hat, brown coat and had a beard, mirroring the outfit he wore when he was killed on Jan. 24. The footage shows him spitting on a Ford SUV, shouting abuse, kicking and smashing the right tail light and flipping the middle finger. Agents exited the vehicle, grabbed and pushed him to the ground, fired tear gas and pepper balls, and continued to hold him down.
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