CNN, Alex Pretti had already clashed with the Ice men a week earlier
Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old nurse killed on Saturday by federal agents in Minneapolis, had already clashed with Ice men a week earlier, suffering a broken rib. CNN reports it.
A memo sent earlier this month to officers temporarily assigned to the city asked them to “collect all images, license plates, identification documents and general information on hotels, agitators, protesters, etc., so as to capture everything in one consolidated format,” according to correspondence seen by CNN. Pretti’s previous meeting with the agents is indicated as a further demonstration of the aggressive approach adopted by federal forces towards observers and demonstrators, a line also confirmed by the request to collect information on activities that are widely protected by the First Amendment of the US Constitution.
According to a source who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation, the previous incident began when Pretti stopped his car after seeing ICE agents chasing what he described as a family on foot, starting to scream and blow a whistle. Subsequently, the source said, five officers put him on the ground, with one of them leaning on his back, causing him to fracture a rib. The officers then released him on the spot. “He thought he was going to die that day,” the source said. According to documents reviewed by CNN, Pretti later received medications consistent with treatment of a fractured rib.
