It wasn't the initial video of ICE officers shooting and killing Alex Jeffrey Pretti, for seemingly no justifiable reason at all, that did it. I didn't yet know Pretti was a 37-year-old nurse who worked in the intensive-care unit at the Veteran Affairs hospital in Minneapolis, or what preceded the shooting, or if the victim had pulled a weapon on the officers. The event looked really bad on my laptop screen. It was extremely upsetting to watch. But I was willing to withhold judgment for a time to wait for additional evidence. Then other videos began to surface showing the events from multiple angles. It looked like Pretti was filming ICE officers from the sidelines as they interacted with some protesters, that he walked toward the commotion and was quickly pepper-sprayed while holding his camera in one hand. Then several officers grab Pretti and wrestle him to the ground while one of them begins beating him with a pepper-spray canister. Then another officer appears to remove a gun...
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