President Donald Trump called Alex Pretti, the anti-ICE protester who was fatally shot by Border Patrol agents on Saturday in Minneapolis, Minnesota, an “agitator, and perhaps insurrectionist” in a social media post on early Friday morning. The president’s comments come as a new video was released this week showing Pretti acting violently and unruly while protesting illegal immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota.
In the video, which was filmed at a protest eleven days before his fatal shooting on Saturday, Pretti was seen yelling, screaming, and kicking a government vehicle, leaving damage to its taillight. He also spat at law enforcement officials. Trump described Pretti as acting “crazed and out of control.”
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