A new minute-by-minute reconstruction based on verified videos presents a sharply different account of the fatal shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse killed during a federal immigration operation in Minneapolis. The timeline, reported by ABC News and corroborated by multiple camera angles, raises doubts about early federal claims that Pretti approached agents armed and intending harm. Initial statements from the Department of Homeland Security described Pretti as a dangerous threat and said agents fired in self-defense after he resisted disarmament. However, former DHS undersecretary John Cohen said the videos do not support claims that Pretti acted in...
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