The BBC has published the video. By framing this as "conflicting accounts" when the video clearly shows some of the core claims ["defensive shots"] to be false, there is a risk of saying that government officials are entitled to their own parallel facts

He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed. 
 
Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you’

.. .. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs.

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.. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman..

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Statement from parents of Alex Pretti, Michael & Susan Pretti: 
‘We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital.

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The man ICE officers shot and killed in Minneapolis is 37 yr old Alex Pretti

Mr Pretti is a US citizen and worked as a nurse

10 shots were fired. The video of what happened is out there

Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"

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