Video Shows Pretti in Confrontation with ICE Agents Days Before Shooting

New video shows Alex Pretti engaged in a confrontation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on January 13, 11 days before he died in a shooting involving a Border Patrol agent, a spokesperson for the Pretti family and their attorney confirmed to Minnesota All-Star Tribune.

According to the Minnesota All-Star Tribune“Pretti, 37, was captured on bystander video Jan. 13 amid a crowd of whistleblower bystanders, cursing immigration agents as an unmarked motorcade invaded a street corner in south Minneapolis. A spokesperson for his family and the family’s attorney verified that the man in the video is Pretti:

Alex Pretti, the intensive care nurse killed by federal agents last weekend, was swarmed and accosted by police during another encounter 11 days earlier, according to footage obtained by the Minnesota Star Tribune.

Pretti, 37, was captured on bystander video Jan. 13 amid a crowd of whistleblower bystanders, cursing immigration agents as an unmarked convoy invaded a street corner in south Minneapolis.

A spokesperson for his family and the family’s attorney verified that the man in the video was Pretti.

The video footage, captured by News Movement on January 13, was also broadcast by the BBC, reports Mediaite:

News Movement filmed the January 13 incident. He said in an X post that it “appears to be Alex Pretti interacting with federal immigration officials” and that he had the clip analyzed by the BBC, “whose facial recognition technology confirmed his identity with 97% accuracy.”

The BBC confirmed the authenticity of the video in its 10 p.m. GMT newscast. Journalist 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 profanities at the officers.” Furthermore, a BBC spokesperson confirmed to Mediaite that they had reviewed the images and verified that their team had used facial recognition technology on the video.

In a BBC video, Atkins referenced “new footage shared with the BBC by The News Movement” that “appears to show Alex Pretti and other protesters confronting federal agents in the days following Renee Good’s death.”

“It’s not clear what the officers were doing,” Atkins added. “This man has the same coat, facial hair and gait as Alex Pretti, and a facial recognition tool suggests a 97 percent match.”

Atkins added that the video appears to show Pretti “yelling” at officers, “making spit signs” and “kicking a car.”