00:00Well, let's go truthing and faking.
00:01Vedika behelds over by the Big Board.
00:03Greetings to you, Vedika.
00:04We're staying with the...
00:05The death of Alex Sopretti, shot by ICE agents in the United States.
00:10Vedika, let's dissect this shooting.
00:13Accusations that what we see in...
00:15Multiple bystander videos is not what matches the narrative of U.S. federal authority.
00:20Explain why the two don't match up.
00:23That's right, Mark.
00:24On January...
00:2524, 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti was shot and killed.
00:30Killed by federal agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
00:32This was just weeks after Renee Goode was also...
00:35Fatally shot just a few roads away.
00:37Now, the Department of Homeland Security...
00:40...claimed that Pretti was the one who approached U.S. Border Patrol officers...
00:45...carrying a semi-automatic handgun during a targeted operation.
00:48They also say that they...
00:50...attempted to disarm him, but Pretti violently resisted.
00:53And that fearing for his lives and...
00:55...those of his fellow officers, one agent fired defensive shots.
00:58Now, they also went on to claim that...
01:00...that Pretti was holding on him two magazines of ammunition and no ID.
01:04And they say that this...
01:05...looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre.
01:10Now, in the aftermath of this, U.S. President Donald Trump posted...
01:15...an image of a handgun online claiming that this is the gunman's gun, but yet...
01:20...yes, video evidence from before and after the incident directly contradicts this narrative...
01:25...that the Trump administration is claiming is the official version of events.
01:29So, with that...
01:30...with your mind, talk us through what we see in these videos of Alex Pretti's final moments.
01:35Well, to clarify, I just want to say that Alex Pretti was legally licensed to carry a gun...
01:40...but none of the videos or the angles that I'm about to show you actually show him carrying one in his hand.
01:45I also just want to give a warning to our viewers that these videos are hard to watch and they do show the last moments of...
01:50...someone's life.
01:51So, I want to start with this video here, which was one of the first video accounts of...
01:55...this incident filmed by a Minneapolis resident who drove past at 8.58 local...
02:00...so, in this, Pretti is clearly seen with a mobile phone in his hand, not a gun...
02:05...being pushed back by a law enforcement agent.
02:08Now, he does appear to continue recording...
02:10...but he does retreat, as asked, onto the pavement.
02:13Now, like I said, this was filmed at...
02:15...8.58 local time and local police say that they got a call about a shooting at 9.03...
02:20...which means that in just a few minutes was when Alex Pretti died.
02:25Now, I have another angle here. This is a video obtained by Drop Sight News and in...
02:30...this one, we can directly see Pretti filming. So, we can see him there.
02:35...filming his phone out. He's also appearing to direct the traffic somewhat to let the...
02:40...cars through, but he is the one who is approached by an officer. He does not approach them.
02:45An agent then shoves a woman forcefully on the ground. He attempts to help her, and they are both...
02:50...gassed in the face with canisters of chemicals before the fact that he is...
02:55...then quickly tackled to the ground, as we can see here, quickly tackled by these loins...
03:00...and he does not attempt to resist. Now, I have a higher quality version of this.
03:05...which was obtained by MPR News, Minnesota Public Radio, where we can see...
03:10...him a slightly better shot of them both getting gassed in the face. Now, if I...
03:15...fast forward a little bit to the moment here, but we can see that there's no resistance...
03:20...from Alex Pretti. He is being severely detained on the floor by multiple agents.
03:25...and this is the moment we can see an agent pull out a gun and make those shots that took the life.
03:30...of Alex Pretti. Now, I also want to show you one final video which shows...
03:35...which was filmed across the street by people in a doughnut shop across the street.
03:40Now, in this one, if we move forward slightly again, I just want to have you...
03:45...look at this man in the grey jacket here. He's not holding anything in his arms when he approaches.
03:50However, he enters the kerfuffle on the ground with Alex Pretti and as he pulls away...
03:55...he is holding a gun in his hands. So, this is the video evidence that shows us that...
04:00...Pretti was disarmed before any shots were actually fired at him.
04:04Now, go...
04:05...going back to what the Department of Homeland Security claimed...
04:08...that he was aggressive, brandishing a gun...
04:10...and planning to massacre law enforcement. We just saw the video evidence ourselves.
04:14It doesn't match up. He was holding...
04:15...a phone. He tried to defend a woman and we don't see him resist in any way.
04:20Indeed. Disarmed. I mean, as you say, the gun was never in his hand. It was taken...
04:25...from his belt or from a holster that he had it in. So, there we go. Very clear...
04:30...from that video. How has the Trump administration responded then to these multiple angles of video?
04:35Well, despite all of these angles and sworn witness testimony, the Trump administration has essentially stuck to this.
04:40In the last story, Kristi Noem, the DHS secretary, said he was brandishing a gun. She even used words about...
04:45...using domestic terrorism. The White House deputy troop of staff, Stephen Miller, claimed that...
04:50...Kratty was an assassin trying to murder federal agents. FBI Director Kash Patel...
04:55...also waded in, falsely claiming that Preti didn't have the right to carry a weapon at a protest. This has been...
05:00...slammed and debunked by several gun rights groups in the US as false. But...
05:05...federal authorities have softened their language somewhat in the direct aftermath. Kristi Noem, for example, hasn't...
05:10...repeated that claim about brandishing a gun since. On Sunday, she used words saying...
05:15...he was laying hands instead on law enforcement. But this domestic terrorist language is also...
05:20...something we've seen used in the death of Renée Goode as well earlier this month after she was killed. Now I...
05:25...want to end with this, with a statement of the family of Alex Preti from his parents.
05:30...Michael and Susan. They say that they're heartbroken, but they're also very angry. And they say that...
05:35...they called it sickening lies given by the Trump administration, which they have called...
05:40...reprehensible and disgusting. And I think we have to leave it there.
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