The woman who filmed the clearest footage of a protester being shot dead by immigration agents has filed a harrowing account of what she saw.
Intensive care nurse Alex Pretti, 37, was shot up to 10 times on Saturday as he lay on the ground while Customs and Border Protection agents tried to detain him.
Video showed him filming agents with his phone as they arrested a female protester, before he was suddenly tackled to the ground about 9am, and one agent started shooting.
Close-up high-definition footage uploaded by a woman just a few feet away provided damning evidence of the questionable nature of the shooting.
She became known as ‘pink coat lady’ after her bright outfit that was visible from across the street in other videos of the shooting.
Other protesters became concerned about her, as a key witness, and some witnesses said she was briefly detained by federal agents for questioning.
The woman wrote a sworn affidavit detailing what she saw as evidence in an ongoing lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union against the Trump Administration.
Her name was redacted, but she identified herself as a children’s entertainer specializing in face painting from the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis.
she identified herself as a children’s entertainer specializing in face painting.
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