United States Border Patrol, Alex Pretti
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On social media, one Republican official after another has bemoaned Alex Pretti’s death and called for an investigation of the shooting.
Trump and the White House has sought to lower tensions over the shooting deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis.
The Trump administration has been under pressure after Alex Pretti was killed by an immigration agent in Minnesota on Saturday.
President Trump on Tuesday said he wants an "honest investigation" into the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents.
A photo collage circulating online purporting to show Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old man who was shot dead by U.S. immigration agents on January 24 in Minneapolis, contained images of a different individual,
Fond du Lac residents showed up to protest ICE on short notice in frigid temperatures Jan. 25 after a second fatal ICE-related shooting in Minnesota.
I will never be able to hug him, laugh with him, or cry to him again because of those thugs — and that is a pain no words can fully capture,” Micayla Pretti said.
Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, was fatally shot by Border Patrol in Minneapolis on Saturday, Jan. 24, and quickly portrayed by federal immigration leaders as a man with ill intent