The footage of the fatal shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, said one journalist, “shows that the final act of his life was trying to help a woman who was being physically assaulted by the masked agents who would then kill him.”
In the original video of the shooting of a man in Minneapolis, identified by the Minneapolis Star Tribune at 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a woman in a pink coat was seen in the background filming the incident with her phone.
Drop Site News obtained footage that appeared “to come from the direction of the woman in pink filming from the sidewalk” and showed the shooting at a closer distance than the footage taken from inside Glam Doll Donuts.
In the video, the shooting victim, dressed in a brown coat and pants, is seen filming a federal agent with his phone. He’s then seen guiding another person toward the sidewalk as the agent forcefully shoves a third person to the ground.
I don’t know how else you’d phrase that. Almost no one in the military fires their rifle in combat. You’re trained to, in case it’s needed, but you most likely won’t do it. The vast majority are support. Even those on the front probably won’t shoot anyone.
It’s an overseas operation (if even that) because it isn’t combat. There’s a ton of other work the military does, which usually supports the combat, but isn’t participating in it. A lot of that is even humanitarian work, though admittedly the need for a lot of that is caused by the war.