Alex Pretti
New Video of Conflict with Feds Days Earlier than Demise
Revealed
January 28, 2026
5:09 PM PST
Alex Pretti busted the tail mild of a federal agent’s SUV days earlier than he was shot to dying … and the tense alternate — whereas he was armed — performed out on digicam.
The Minneapolis ICU nurse, who was killed by Customs and Border Safety officers Saturday, seems in a video reportedly recorded January 13 and printed by The Information Motion. Pretti’s sporting a remarkably related outfit to the one he wore 11 days later when he was shot.
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The clip begins with Pretti yelling and showing to spit on the car as federal officers are driving away from the world … earlier than he brings his foot up and kicks and shatters the rear proper tail mild, leaving it hanging by cords.
Brokers leap out of the SUV and chase Pretti down … slamming him to the bottom whereas a crowd gathers round them and screams on the brokers.
Inexplicably, after the tense altercation ends and Pretti’s in a position to get again to his ft, brokers simply let him go … leaving him on the road nook regardless of the injury he is executed to the car.
A rep for the Pretti household tells TMZ … they knew concerning the incident on January 13. The rep says Alex sustained accidents however didn’t get medical care.
As Pretti pulls away from the brokers, you possibly can see the butt of a handgun within the rear waistband of his pants — simply because it was throughout his deadly encounter with the feds.
Steve Schleicher, the legal professional for the Pretti household tells TMZ … “Every week earlier than Alex was gunned down on the street — regardless of posing no risk to anybody — he was violently assaulted by a gaggle of ICE brokers. Nothing that occurred a full week earlier than may probably have justified Alex’s killing by the hands of ICE on Jan 24.”
As we have reported … 11 days after that preliminary conflict, feds once more wrestled Pretti to the bottom on a metropolis avenue … and a Border Patrol agent and a Customs and Border Safety officer fired a sequence of pictures at Pretti. He died on the scene.
Protests have exploded throughout Minnesota and the remainder of the nation within the days after the killing. Trump administration officers have already publicly labeled Pretti a “home terrorist.”
The Division of Homeland Safety tells TMZ … HSI is reviewing this footage.
