It is unclear what preceded the events caught on camera, but the footage shows Pretti yelling at agents in an unmarked vehicle and kicking the tail light of the car as they move away. Soon after, a heavily armed agent in tactical gear is seen exiting the car and appears to tackle Pretti to the ground while other officers crowd around.
Pretti appeared to break free from the officers soon after, and then stood and remained on the scene as agents left. After Pretti’s coat was pulled off by the officers, the News Movement video shows what appears to be a gun in his waistband. Pretti, who was reported to have a permit to carry a concealed handgun, never touched it during or after the altercation.
A family representative confirmed to the Guardian that it was Pretti in the footage published on Wednesday.
The outlet reported that one woman was forcibly removed from her vehicle after officers smashed her window. Aisha Gomez, a state representative, was also at the scene and told the outlet that agents had tackled another man and pushed his head into the ground before carrying him away.
Gomez told the outlet officers had gotten physical with her, too, saying, “I was shoved with no verbal communication whatsoever.”
“The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting,” Pretti’s family said in a statement shortly after he was killed. “Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs … Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man.”
I’ve noticed that right wing chuds on various online platforms are immediately dogpiling on this event to justify his murder.
I didn’t know that kicking taillights was a capital offense.
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They’ll try and in a way I’m glad because they’re showing their hand, conservatives have gone completely insane and will justify anything they’re told to.
Normal people understand kicking a taillight a week prior doesn’t justify the execution.
yep and unlike in the good old day, we have modern video and audio, any modern atrocity is now recorded for future peoples to remembered and reviewed by all immediately all over the world.
Facebook is flooded with deflection for a victim of an illegal who already got justice. They try to say don’t go to dangerous places if you don’t want trouble. Motherfucker you voted for this. You made it dangerous. Fuck off with your shit bad faith goal posts and whataboutisms.
Land of the free, but don’t go over there the government may kill you.
Also, try not to be brown, or sound like a foreigner. Otherwise, we can do a Kavanaugh stop and search you for no other reason
I think if it’s relevant, it might prove they actually hunted him down to get revenge
And a capital offense needing neither judge nor jury.
ICE is the one who gets to decide, on the spot, if you deserve to die or be imprisoned, or maced, etc.
“… nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law”