βI witnessed EVERYTHING,β a witness has just revealed everything that happened to ICU nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, 37, a Minneapolis resident, after he tried to assist a woman who had been pushed. But then something terrible happened; the last 3 or 4 WORDS he shouted still haunt him to this day
βI saw Minneapolis war zone and stood feet from where man was shot as ICE threw tear gas at meβ
Shortly after 37-year-old Minneapolis resident Alex Jeffrey Pretti was fatally shot by a federal immigration officer this morning, I arrived at the scene among hundreds of residents when ICE threw tear gas on us
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Federal immigration officers threw tear gas on me following this morningβs fatal shooting(Image: )
Just hours after 50,000 people screamed βICE outβ across the city of Minneapolis, a third fatal shooting by a federal agent took place on a quiet neighborhood street.TheΒ man was shot just after 9 this morning, and by 10:20 am, when I arrived at the scene, hundreds of neighbors had gathered around the perimeter of yellow tape.Β The screams traveling down the street were chilling. One woman screamed repeatedly, βWhat have you done, what have you done?βWithin five minutes of arriving at the intersection of 27th Avenue and Nicollet Street, the number of agents standing inside the cordoned-off area had more than doubled. They came out of nowhere, like insects, and more kept coming.Β One man was tackled by ICE and screamed βyouβre going to have to kill meβ and βI canβt breatheβ.
Hundreds of people stood on the other side of the yellow tape, taunting the agents with slurs, insults, and orders to βget the fβ out of Minnesota.βThe man beside me compared the scene to the dystopian horror film The Purge. His friend quickly pointed out that it was actually much scarier, because βonly one side has weapons.βJust minutes before, the body of the man who had been shot multiple times in the chest had been hauled away, after CPR was performed on him to no success. As the minutes ticked by, news reports started to confirm that he had died.
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Hundreds of people took to the Minneapolis streets in protest(Image: Alana Loftus)
The word spread quickly amongst the bystanders, inciting a new level of fury. Chants got louder, and tensions grew even higher. One man was chased down the street at speed by an ICE agent. It was unclear what he did or said, but people cheered him on as the agent failed to catch up with him.
In the brief moment of celebration, things took a dramatic and horrifying turn. A protester threw a snowball into the sea of agents, and almost immediately, they retaliated by tossing tear-gas canisters into the sea of unarmed bystanders.Thick clouds of white smoke filled the air around us, and at once, hundreds began to run in every direction. As we ran, the bangs got louder and closer, and I realized that they were throwing them after us.
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One Minneapolis protestor held a sign reading βMurder by nazisβΒ (Image: Alana Loftus)
The only shadow of hope in the horrifying moment was the solidarity in the crowd. As hundreds of people ran from the chemical agents that followed them through the air, they were still looking out for each other.As I tried to cross a snow bank, my feet failed me, and I landed on all fours, hundreds of people stampeding just inches behind me. A stranger picked me up and uttered five chilling words, βYou have to keep going.βThis sentiment seems to be shared by all Minnesotans at this rate. They are tired and angry, and their culture of kindness is wearing thin. However, they are united by the notion that no matter how bad things get, they will not give up and they will not back down.
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