Video appears to show Alex Pretti spit at federal agents, violently damage SUV days before fatal CBP shooting

New video appears to amusement Alex Pretti spitting astatine national agents and damaging a authorities SUV days earlier helium was fatally changeable by U.S. Border Patrol agents successful Minneapolis.

The News Movement released the video – reportedly recorded Jan. 13 – connected Wednesday, showing a antheral resembling Pretti, with a beard, glasses and covering akin to what helium was wearing erstwhile helium was killed.

The antheral is seen shouting and spitting astatine national agents earlier kicking the taillight of a national SUV, causing it to break.

As helium shouts "f--- you" repeatedly and flashes treble mediate fingers, agents exit the vehicle, attack him and instrumentality him to the ground.

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A man, who appears to beryllium Alex Pretti, was caught connected camera successful Minnesota spitting astatine national agents and damaging a authorities SUV earlier helium was fatally shot. (The News Movement)

Agents sprayed capsicum balls and teardrop state toward a adjacent assemblage of agitators arsenic the altercation continued, though the antheral was yet released.

After stepping distant from agents, what appears to beryllium a weapon is disposable successful his waistband.

Rather than permission the scene, helium remained with different demonstrators who continued shouting obscenities astatine national instrumentality enforcement officers.

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Video appears to amusement Alex Pretti successful a convulsive brushwood with national agents successful Minnesota conscionable days earlier helium was fatally changeable by CBP agents. (The News Movement)

Alex Pretti’s household confirmed to The Minnesota Star Tribune that the idiosyncratic seen successful the video is Alex Pretti.

"A week earlier Alex was gunned down successful the thoroughfare – contempt posing nary menace to anyone – helium was violently assaulted by a radical of ICE agents," Steve Schleicher, lawyer for the Pretti family, told Fox News. "Nothing that happened a afloat week earlier could perchance person justified Alex’s sidesplitting astatine the hands of ICE connected Jan 24."

The 37-year-old Department of Veterans Affairs ICU caregiver was changeable and killed by Border Patrol agents portion signaling national migration enforcement operations successful Minneapolis.

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Video appears to amusement Alex Pretti footwear successful the taillight of a national conveyance earlier he's taken down by national agents and released. (The News Movement)

Video from the shooting appears to amusement him attempting to assistance a pistillate who had been knocked to the crushed by agents earlier helium was sprayed with a chemic irritant, forced to the pavement and struck.

The footage past shows an cause removing what authorities described arsenic a suspected firearm – a 9mm pistol – from his waistband arsenic different agents fired astir a twelve rounds.

Officials said 1 Border Patrol cause fired a CBP-issued Glock 19, portion different fired a CBP-issued Glock 47.

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A screengrab from a video shows a instrumentality enforcement serviceman spraying irritants astatine Alex Pretti earlier helium was fatally changeable by national agents successful Minneapolis, Minnesota, connected Jan. 24, 2026. (Reuters)

Before the shooting, agents were conducting enforcement operations arsenic civilians shouted and blew whistles, with authorities saying the assemblage was instructed to stay connected the sidewalk to debar interfering with instrumentality enforcement activity.

Authorities said helium resisted erstwhile agents attempted to instrumentality him into custody, starring to a carnal struggle.

During the struggle, an unidentified Border Patrol cause tin beryllium heard repeatedly shouting that the antheral was armed, according to the report.

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The shooting marked the 2nd fatal incidental successful Minneapolis successful caller weeks involving national migration agents amid heightened tensions implicit enforcement operations and clashes with anti-ICE demonstrators.

Fox News Digital’s Louis Casiano contributed to this report.