As a two-time Peabody Award-winning broadcast journalist and the founding director of the University of Colorado Boulder's Visual Evidence Lab - and as fellows at Stanford University's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences - we understand how video can be easily manipulated. Even when genuine, it can distort reality by triggering our own biases. Video makes us believe we are witnessing events firsthand, but we are not.
Early Saturday morning in downtown Minneapolis, 37-year-old Alex Pretti was killed by federal agents in full public view. Within hours, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection officials released a familiar statement: an agent, they said, had acted in lawful self-defense against an armed and violent agitator. According to this narrative, Pretti instigated the violence that led to his death.
So, you said last night, It looks like a situation where an individual arrived on the scene to inflict maximum damage on individuals and to kill law enforcement,' Doocy said. Did he say, I'm gonna kill you,' or did he leave a note? How do you know that was his intent? Part of this investigation will be hearing from those agents and officers and people on the ground, Noem answered.
On Jan. 24, federal law enforcement agents shot and killed Alex Pretti during an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis. In the hours that followed, the Trump administration moved aggressively to frame the killing as a narrowly averted attack on law enforcement. President Donald Trump, his deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, and Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino described Pretti as a would-be assassin, a domestic terrorist, and someone intent on causing maximum damage and massacring federal agents with a handgun.
Walz pointed to videos taken at the scene as he dismissed the administration's initial accounts of the fatal encounter as "nonsense" and "lies." "Thank God we have video, because according to DHS, these seven heroic guys took an onslaught of a battalion against them," he said, accusing federal officials of "spinning stories" and "rushing to judgment." "They're telling you not to trust your eyes and ears."
The 37-year-old poet and mother-of-three was killed by an ICE officer January 7 in Minneapolis, Minnesota during what Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called "targeted operations" near East 34th Street and Portland Avenue. Noem alleged that "rioters began blocking ICE officers," claiming that Good "weaponized" her vehicle by attempting to run over agents. Noem labeled Good's actions as "domestic terrorism" and those of the officers as "self defense," but multiple eyewitness accounts and video footage from the incident contradict this.
A murder trial heard the boyfriend of a Brazilian librarian was video-calling a friend in the early hours of New Year's Day and, when asked how the young woman was, turned the camera phone to show her lying motionless on a bed in his apartment covered with blankets. Miller Pacheco (32) has denied the murder of Bruna Fonseca (28) whose body was found in a Cork city centre flat on New Year's Day three years ago.
We've dreaded this moment since the early stages of this ice presence in Minneapolis. Not only is this a concern that we've had internally, we've been talking about it. They are not here to cause safety in this city. What they are doing is not to provide safety in America. What they are doing is causing chaos and distrust. They're ripping families apart. They're sowing chaos on our streets, and, in this case, quite literally killing people.
And it argued that when ICE assaults members of Congress it still must be treated as an assault on ICE unprotected by Speech and Debate. The Government respectfully asserts that any assault upon a federal officer should qualify as an act that is "clearly non-legislative" given that such an act is clearly an "illegitimate activity." And it would be clearly non-legislative whether the arrest that triggered the assault took place outside the Security Gate or inside of Delaney Hall.
A two-page amendment posted to a county website at the start of 2025 says that coroner's inquest hearings - which for decades have been done for virtually all law enforcement-involved death - will now only occur if certain officials request them. The amendment attributes this change to "advancements in transparency," implying that the digital age now makes such hearings obsolete.
Fuzzy video footage of Charlie Kirk's alleged killer racing across a rooftop at Utah Valley University, dropping to the ground and sprinting away in the moments following the conservative activist's death on Wednesday, was taken from so far away that it could not possibly have revealed his identity. You started off with a clip that made him look like an ant, Donald Trump told Fox News in a Friday morning interview
During the arrest, officers in tactical gear use a stun gun on one man and put another in a chokehold while belittling the situation, saying: 'You've got no rights here. You're a migo, brother.'
Jury selection is underway for Abdul Olasupo, charged with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon related to a deadly shooting in a Staten Island deli.
