New York Times: Videos contradict federal officials’ account of Minneapolis killing. GRAPHIC

New York Times: Videos contradict federal officials’ account of Minneapolis killing. GRAPHIC

VIA NEW YORK TIMES:

The man shot by federal agents, a registered nurse, was an American citizen with no criminal record, the city police chief said. A New York Times video analysis shows he was holding a phone, not a gun.

Federal agents shot and killed a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident on Saturday, prompting renewed clashes between law enforcement officers and protesters demanding an end to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. Colleagues and a senior law enforcement official identified the man who was shot as Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an intensive-care nurse.

Videos analyzed by The New York Times contradict accounts given by Homeland Security officials about the shooting. They said the man approached Border Patrol agents with a handgun and the intent to “massacre” them. Footage of the encounter shows the man holding a phone in his hand, not a gun, when agents take him to the ground and shoot him.

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