Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year old nurse, was reportedly shot and killed by federal agents during a Minneapolis immigration crackdown. As videos of the shooting emerged, chatter broke out on social media over claims on whether Pretti pulled a gun on ICE/Border Patrol agents during the incident. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said…
Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse, was shot and killed by a federal immigration officer on Saturday in Minneapolis, the Associated Press reported. The incident drew hundreds of protesters onto the frigid streets and ratcheted up tensions in a city already shaken by another fatal shooting weeks earlier. Pretti had protested US President…
The fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by federal immigration officers, ICE, in Minnesota has intensified an already volatile standoff in Washington DC, bringing the United States closer to a fresh federal government shutdown and raising the specter of military deployment under emergency powers. A lede moment in a widening crisis The death of Alex Pretti,…
Following legal setbacks, US President Donald Trump said he is pausing his push to deploy National Guard forces to Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, Oregon, as reported by the Associated Press. “We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again – Only a question of time!”…
