Video shared on social media Wednesday appeared to show Alex Pretti getting into a confrontation with federal immigration enforcement agents more than a week before he was shot during a skirmish with officers.
Pretti, 37, reportedly had a gun on his person when he was shot Saturday.
The News Movement posted the video crediting the BBC’s facial recognition software for identifying it as Pretti with a 97 percent degree of accuracy at the earlier incident on Jan. 13.
The narrator of the video said that his team of reporters had received a tip that the federal officers were blocking an intersection in Minneapolis.
The footage showed a man, who was apparently Pretti, screaming at federal agents inside an SUV. As they started to drive away,
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