A newly released, high-definition video is raising fresh questions about the killing of Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti by federal immigration officers.
The video appears to show that Pretti, a 37-year-old US citizen, was disarmed and restrained moments before he was shot repeatedly on a city street.
The footage has been stabilized and slowed to capture the final seconds before gunfire erupted. It has been reviewed by the Daily Mail and local journalists in Minneapolis frame by frame.
The footage also offers another angle of the shooting. The findings appear to contradict claims by the Department of Homeland Security that Pretti ‘brandished’ a weapon or posed an immediate threat to officers.
It has intensified scrutiny of DHS claims that officers fired ‘defensive shots’ after Pretti ‘approached’ them with a handgun and violently resisted.
Instead, the footage appears to show federal agents already restraining Pretti on the ground when his firearm is removed – moments before another agent shoots him.
Adding to the scrutiny, a doctor who witnessed the aftermath from his nearby apartment said in an affidavit that federal agents delayed performing lifesaving aid.
The unidentified pediatrician claims the agents appeared to be ‘counting his bullet wounds’ instead of administering CPR as Pretti lay critically wounded.
Among those who have closely examined the footage is Lou Raguse, an investigative journalist with KARE 11 News in Minneapolis, who said one angle is particularly significant.