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The shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti and its aftermath.
Public reporting is consistent that was a resident of — specifically identified in several accounts as living in of south Minneapolis — and worked as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA, but no credibl...
Multiple news outlets published videos and eyewitness accounts showing in a physical confrontation with federal immigration officers on — eleven days before he was fatally shot — and Pretti’s family a...
Medical records cited by reporters indicate reported or was treated for a after an earlier clash with federal agents, but news coverage is inconsistent about whether those records are publicly release...
Coverage of the of produced sharply divergent frames: and tabloids foregrounded the earlier scuffle to depict Pretti as confrontational, while mainstream and left-leaning outlets treated the clip as c...