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A shooting incident involving Alex Jeffrey Pretti and U.S. Border Patrol officers.
Reporting is conflicted: federal authorities say “approached” agents with a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun and distributed a photo of a firearm, while multiple bystander videos and at least one independen...
Video footage verified by major outlets shows holding a phone when agents first confronted him, while other clips appear to show an agent removing what looks like a handgun from Pretti’s waistband sho...
The claim that “ the government showed was found appearing days ago on ” cannot be confirmed from the available reporting: none of the provided articles document the government displaying a photograph...
The family of publicly issued a written statement in the immediate aftermath of his death, saying they were “heartbroken but also very angry” and describing him as a “kindhearted soul” and an ICU nurs...
Video verified by multiple news organizations and sworn witness statements indicate was restrained or on the ground and not visibly brandishing a weapon when agents fired; federal officials maintain h...
There is no credible, publicly available evidence that during the encounter with in ; multiple independently verified bystander videos show him holding a cellphone and being pinned to the ground befor...
’s initial public mention in coverage of the killing is reported as an independent, open-source examination that — according to secondary reporting — concluded the available video evidence “clearly co...
Verified bystander videos, analyzed frame by frame by multiple outlets, standing with a phone, being shoved and then wrestled to the ground by several federal agents, and then being shot while on or n...
’s independent examination of the is cited in multiple outlets as a close look that contradicts the ’s account ( references Bellingcat’s findings) , and major news organizations have verified bystande...
Multiple federal statements and a firearm recovered at the scene support the claim that possessed a gun during the confrontation, but contemporaneous bystander videos and independent reporting create ...
Bystander footage assembled and verified by multiple outlets shows standing in the street filming and then moving toward a fallen woman as in olive-green uniforms confront protesters, after which seve...
Independent analysts and newsroom video reviewers say the bystander footage of the shooting conflicts with early statements that “approached” agents with a 9mm and was shot in an apparent self‑defense...
Public reporting shows investigators are collecting and trying to preserve more than just citizen videos in the : authorities and prosecutors have sought access to federal evidence, state investigator...
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...
Video evidence clearly shows a Border Patrol agent removing a handgun from ’s waistband after he was taken to the ground, but investigators have not publicly confirmed that Pretti’s gun discharged at ...
Multiple independently verified bystander videos and news analyses show holding a phone in his right hand (and an empty left hand raised) in the moments before he was wrestled to the ground and shot, ...
A preliminary internal review by found that two federal officers fired on after he resisted arrest, but the review did not report that Pretti brandished a weapon — a central claim repeatedly made by o...
Federal officials publicly asserted that “approached officers with a handgun” and “violently resisted,” framing the shooting as defensive by agents . The administration’s statements have relied mainly...
Newly surfaced video footage from shows a man confirmed by multiple news outlets to be spitting at federal officers and kicking the right taillight of an SUV occupied by immigration agents, breaking i...
Newly published and widely verified video footage shows confronting federal immigration agents at a protest on and kicking the taillight of an agents’ SUV, breaking the light, an act captured by multi...