MAJOR new footage has emerged of an altercation between the ICU nurse shot dead in Minneapolis and ICE agents just 11 days before his death.
Alex Pretti, the man Border Force Agents killed on Saturday, had been recorded during a row in the street with federal immigration agents on January 13.
Alex Pretti appeared to kick a car in the new footage
New footage has emerged of Alex Pretti clashing with ICE before his deathCredit: @dangjessie/UGC/AFP via Getty Images
ICU nurse Alex Pretti was shot deadCredit: AP
Minneapolis is still reeling after Pretti was shot dead during a confrontation with federal agents over the weekend.
And now new footage has emerged showing the 37-year-old in a fiery interaction with the uniformed agents in the days leading up to his death.
Captured on January 13, according to the video recorded by the media company The News Movement, it shows Pretti yelling at federal immigration agents before appearing to spit and kick the back of a vehicle used by agents.
In the footage, Pretti appears to break a taillight but it is not clear what happened in the lead up to the incident.
The video then looks to show an agent getting out of the vehicle, grabbing Pretti and tackling him to the ground.
Witnesses can be heard screaming: “Stop! Stop!” while in the background, other uniformed agents deploy what appears to be gas or smoke toward the crowd.
A family representative confirmed that it is Pretti depicted in the video and admitted that the family knew about the incident after it happened.
The outlet who captured the footage said it responded to a tip about agents blocking the road at the intersection of East 36th Street and Park Avenue shortly after 10 a.m. that day and went down to film the scene.
In the footage they captured, at least three agents try to keep Pretti down, but he manages to get away and appears to move quickly toward people standing nearby.
GUN SPOTTED
At one point when he turns, what appears to be a gun is visible, tucked into the back of his waistband.
But in the footage seen he does not ever appear to reach for the weapon.
Pretti and others captured in the scene continue to yell at the agents, trying to get them to leave.
The footage then shows the intersection filled with smoke that had been deployed by agents, while cars honk and people yell in the background.
The News Movement reported that shortly after the altercation, federal agents drove away.
The new footage comes as it was revealed that the officers involved in the fatal shooting have been pulled off the job and placed on administrative leave.
The Department of Homeland Security stressed the move is standard procedure and “should not be viewed as any suspicion of wrongdoing.
A government report sent to Congress and obtained by CBS News said two US Customs and Border Protection agents fired their weapons.
The report did not say Pretti reached for his firearm.
Minnesota officials said Pretti was a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry and had no criminal record.
CBS News reported that some of the Border Force Patrol agents at the scene had body cameras, according to two US officials.
Stella Carlson recorded the fatal encounter between federal officers and Alex Pretti.
She told CNN she had spent weeks joining grassroots efforts to warn neighbors about impending immigration action, after the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE officer earlier this month.
“I know every time I leave my vehicle or leave my house and I put that whistle around my neck, I know because of Renee Good, the risk,” she told CNN’s Anderson Cooper Tuesday.
“I think we all knew after that happened, it is now at that point, and it could be any of us.”
More than a dozen people have been shot by federal agents since September.
FURTHER PROTESTS
The Trump administration and Department of Homeland Security have come under fire from both sides of the aisle over reckless shootings.
Saturday’s killing of Pretti has further fueled protests and backlash to Trump’s immigration crackdown.
He was shot at least 10 times in a span of five seconds.
Videos from the scene verified by CBS show Pretti holding a phone in his right hand, with nothing in his left, moments before he was shot.
Multiple videos also show a federal agent in a gray jacket reaching into the scuffle empty-handed and coming out with a gun in his right hand.
The footage shows the agent turning away as the first shot is fired, then running across the street as more shots ring out.
Earlier in January, Renee Good was shot multiple times by ICE agent Jonathan Ross.The footage shows the agent turning away as the first shot is fired, then running across the street as more shots ring out.
A crowd of protesters against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) march through the streets of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 25, 2026. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP via Getty Images)Credit: AFP
Ugly scenes as tensions rose during protestsCredit: EPA
