Videos show Alex Pretti pushed to ground 11 days before his killing

Newly unearthed videos show Alex Pretti, a Minneapolis nurse, being pushed to the ground by federal agents at a protest in South Minneapolis on Jan. 13, 11 days before he was fatally shot by federal agents on Saturday, the footage and reporting say. The footage shows Mr. Pretti running toward a street corner in the Powderhorn neighborhood where protesters were gathered, shouting, "What are you doing here?" and repeatedly cursing at agents.

He is seen spitting at an agent as the agent was getting into a vehicle and then kicking twice at a taillight, breaking it, after which agents got out and pushed him to the ground. At least some of the agents in that encounter are identified in the reporting as with Homeland Security Investigations, a division of U.S.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The videos show agents holding Mr. Pretti on the ground for about 20 seconds before letting him go and driving off; as he got back to his feet a gun appears tucked into the back waistband of his pants. In the later confrontation in which Mr. Pretti was killed, he had a gun holstered on his hip, and one agent grabbed the gun from his holster moments before two other agents fired at him.

Both officers who fired — one with Border Patrol and another with its parent agency, Customs and Border Protection — have been placed on leave, and neither has been identified, the report says. At least two videos of the Jan.

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