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.”
It’s like when dipshit right wingers say George Floyd deserved to be suffocated to death by a cop because he had prior offenses.
Doesn’t matter.
Having prior offenses doesn’t mean you’re sentenced to death.
WE ALL SAW THE VIDEOS FROM MULTIPLE ANGLES.
He tries to help a woman up. His gun is holstered. He’s jumped by multiple ICE agents and tackled to the ground. One of them removes the gun from his holster and immediately afterward they execute him while disarmed and on his knees.
That’s all that matters. Anyone arguing that anything that happened on a previous day is relevant is simply making excuses for the government summarily executing citizens.
This could make it premeditated
Ice sees gun, knows they could push a future altercation
Imagine if Pretti didn’t have a gun. Ice tackles unarmed guy and shoots him? Other than AI unbelievers it would be a hard sell.
Here’s the thing, because ice isn’t actually law enforcement, they just wanted to get out of the car and rough him up, there’s no paper trail here. He wasn’t detained, ticketed, whatever. A lot of people are claiming it’s AI and because ICE’s goal isn’t law and order, it’s running around like Eric Carmen screaming “respect my authority” its just that much more difficult to refute claims like that. If anything it makes the case for 1st degree murder if ice and Pretti had a history.