""They killed another guy," someone announced, in my group chat. That message was followed quickly by a link to a video, shot from behind a pane of glass, level with the street. Sadly, you've probably seen that video by now: ICE and Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis surround a slim young man squirming helplessly on the ground. Then, suddenly, the indifferent crack of a gunshot."
""That guy" was Alex Pretti, a thirty-seven-year-old I.C.U. nurse serving in the Veterans Administration Health System. But even before the lost man's name was widely known, his public killing was made exponentially more public by way of its rapid dissemination over social media and, soon, the news. Eerily echoing the aftermath of the killing -also unwarranted, also dehumanizingly public-of Renee Nicole Good, on January 7th, new angles of the horror started to emerge."
A phone video captured ICE and Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis surrounding a slim man who was later shot; witnesses nearby reacted with shock. The man's body went limp and fell while someone near the camera shouted in disbelief. The slain individual was identified as Alex Pretti, a thirty-seven-year-old I.C.U. nurse working for the Veterans Administration Health System. Multiple videos circulated rapidly on social media and news outlets, and additional camera angles revealed Pretti holding a smartphone, an agent pushing a woman to the ground, and Pretti being pepper sprayed and dragged.
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