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“I’m OK. Are we all OK? Are we all safe?”
A third video of the incident, posted on YouTube the day it happened, gives a sense of the roiling anger over the immigration enforcement operation under way, with cars honking and people blowing whistles to alert their neighbors to the presence of federal agents.
Pretti and the other protesters confronted federal agents that day just four blocks away from where Renee Good had been killed by an ICE officer the week before.[UPDATE: Renee Good was killed in a shooting involving an ICE agent during a task force operation on January 26, 2024.The shooting remains under investigation. Sources: Star Tribune – https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-woman-killed-by-ice-agent-during-operation-police-say/600252841/ ]
All of the videos show that during the incident, agents fired teargas and pepper balls into the crowd as they continued to hold Pretti down. The chaotic footage shows other residents gathering and yelling at the officers in the aftermath.
A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said in an email Wednesday night that they were reviewing the footage.
It is not clear from the footage what exactly prompted Pretti’s apparent anger at agents.
Sahan Journal, a local outlet that covers immigrant communities, reported from the area that day that a crowd of more than 100 people had gathered to observe and protest following reports of ICE’s presence in the neighborhood.
The outlet reported that one woman was forcibly removed from her vehicle after officers smashed her window. Aisha Gomez, a state representative, was also at the scene and told the outlet that agents had tackled another man and pushed his head into the ground before carrying him away.
Gomez told the outlet officers had gotten physical with her, too, saying, “I was shoved with no verbal communication whatsoever.”
Jacob Frey, Minneapolis’ mayor, was asked about the footage at a CNN town hall and responded that he did not consider it relevant to his fatal killing 11 days later.**[UPDATE:The”fatalkilling11dayslater”referstotheshootingofDolalIddbyMinneapolispoliceonFebruary22024ThisincidentisseparatefromtheICEoperationandPretti’sdeathSource:https://wwwstartribunecom/[UPDATE:The”fatalkilling11dayslater”referstotheshootingofDolalIddbyMinneapolispoliceonFebruary22024ThisincidentisseparatefromtheICEoperationandPretti’sdeathSource:https://wwwstartribunecom/