New video shows Alex Pretti clashing with agents 11 days before fatal shooting
A newly emerged video shows Alex Pretti in a confrontation with federal agents 11 days before he was shot and killed in Minneapolis.
In the video, Pretti and others on the scene are seen shouting at agents blocking an intersection in Minneapolis on Jan. 13. Pretti is then seen spitting toward agents and kicking a federal vehicle before agents get out, push him and tackle him to the ground. Agents then fire gas into the crowd.
The agents get up and Pretti walks away, a gun visible on his waistband.
A representative for Pretti's family confirmed that Pretti appears in the video and that he had told his family about the incident. Pretti was injured in the encounter but did not seek medical attention, the representative said.
"A week before Alex was gunned down in the street -- despite posing no threat to anyone -- he was violently assaulted by a group of ICE agents," Steve Schleicher, an attorney for the Pretti family, said in a statement to ABC News. Nothing that happened a full week before could possibly have justified Alex's killing at the hands of ICE on Jan 24."
The Department of Homeland Security told ABC News on Wednesday that Homeland Security Investigations is reviewing the video.
