USA After video: Shot Pretti a "troublemaker" for Trump
US President Donald Trump has described Alex Pretti, the US citizen shot dead by federal officers in Minneapolis, as an agitator following the emergence of a new video.
30.01.2026, 10:52
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On his online platform Truth Social, he called the slain nurse a "troublemaker, and possibly an insurgent". Trump referred to a video that allegedly shows Pretti days before his death in a violent confrontation with immigration officials. Pretti's public reputation had "plummeted", Trump wrote.
In his post, Trump refers to footage from the portal "The News Movement". The video shows how a man first spits in the direction of an emergency vehicle and then kicks an authority SUV twice as it drives away, breaking out a tail light. An officer eventually brings the man to the ground.
The family confirmed to US broadcaster CNN that it was Pretti. It remains unclear what preceded the incident. According to the portal, the video was recorded on January 13 - eleven days before Pretti's death by gunfire from federal officers.
Trump: "Out of control"
Trump wrote that Pretti had shouted at a "very calm and controlled ICE officer", spat in his face and then violently kicked "a new and very expensive government vehicle", breaking a tail light in the process. This was a clear expression of abuse and anger, "for all to see, insane and out of control," Trump wrote. The officer remained "calm and composed, which was not easy under the circumstances."
Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis last Saturday. The incident sparked outrage and protests in the city and across the country. The family's lawyer told CNN that nothing that had happened days earlier could have justified Pretti's killing on January 24.
Federal security forces in the state of Minnesota and especially in the city of Minneapolis have been cracking down on migrants - some of them suspected - for weeks, arresting and deporting people without valid residence permits.
