\u201cThe final act of his life was trying to help a woman who was being physically assaulted,\u201d described one journalist.<\/b>
\nIn the original video of the shooting of a man in Minneapolis, identified by the Minneapolis Star Tribune at 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a woman in a pink coat was seen in the background filming the incident with her phone.
Drop Site News obtained footage that appeared \u201cto come from the direction of the woman in pink filming from the sidewalk\u201d and showed the shooting at a closer distance than the footage taken from inside Glam Doll Donuts.
In the video, the shooting victim, dressed in a brown coat and pants, is seen filming a federal agent with his phone. He\u2019s then seen guiding another person toward the sidewalk as the agent forcefully shoves a third person to the ground.
The agent appears to pepper-spray Pretti and pull him away from the other person as a group of several other officers approach and surround him.
They wrestle him to the ground and struggle with him for several seconds before he appears to try to get up. Roughly 10 gun shots ring out and Pretti falls to the ground.
\u201cWhat the fuck did you do? What the fuck did you do?\u201d yells the woman behind the camera repeatedly.
\u201cCowards,\u201d said US Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) in response to the footage.
The video, said journalist Susan Glasser, \u201cshows that the final act of his life was trying to help a woman who was being physically assaulted by the masked agents who would then kill him.\u201d
The video contradicted the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s claim that Pretti had approached immigration officers with a gun.
In a press conference, Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino doubled down on the assertion and claimed Pretti had aimed to \u201cmassacre\u201d Border Patrol agents while they conducted operations, but then did not explain when the victim had threatened the officers with his gun.
\u201cWhy did\u2026 Commander Bovino only take two questions, then abruptly shut down the press conference?\u201d asked US Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif). \u201cBecause he knows he can\u2019t defend cold-blooded murder.\u201d<\/p>\n