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**This is from a different angle than the original. The link in the article is to an X post. I am also including a link from a separate source.

A new video published on social media contradicts the Department of Homeland Security’s account of why federal agents killed 37-year-old Minneapolis man Alex Pretti in broad daylight on Saturday.

The graphic video, which was uploaded by Drop Site News, shows Pretti appearing to direct traffic and film federal agents on his phone. Soon after, he appears to be pepper-sprayed and wrestled to the ground by multiple agents. About a half-dozen agents are on top of Pretti or in his immediate vicinity when he is initially shot. The gunshots continue after Pretti is on the ground.

The video, along with others recorded from different angles, refute the more than 150-word account of the shooting that DHS published on social media on Saturday afternoon. In that statement, DHS claimed that “an individual approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun.”

DHS has tried to back that up by saying Pretti had a handgun on him at the time, sharing a photo of it in the same social media post. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said on Saturday that Pretti appeared to be a licensed gun owner. But the video published by Drop Site makes clear that he was not holding a weapon in the lead-up to the shooting, or when federal agents forcefully took him to the ground. Instead, he only appears to be holding his phone to record the situation.

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[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It would be weird if they didn't. When aren't the fucking lying?

[–] henfredemars 14 points 1 hour ago

It feels safer to assume the opposite of the claim.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 21 points 1 hour ago

Can’t praise the cameraman enough. How they are able to keep recording is something else.

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 24 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Thanks for posting that link.

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It's being updated as more angles come in, pass it around.

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 31 minutes ago

Oh gee, Trump propaganda? Neverrrrr….

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 18 points 1 hour ago

Surprise surprise, the fascist death squads are lying about their murders.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

So the murderer will now be arrested and will go to prison, yes? Yes? Yes...?