A newly released video taken days before Alex Pretti’s “shows his state of mind,” Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett said.
The video shows Pretti spitting at federal agents and damaging a government SUV days in the days before he was fatally shot by U.S. Customs and Border Protection/Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis Saturday.
“[He was] an angry person who is expressing his rage with assault. Spitting at an officer is assault, obviously attacking a federal government vehicle and destroying the property, and then he seems to resist, to some extent, the arrest. It tells you a lot about his mindset,” Jarrett said in an appearance on “Hannity.”
The footage was apparently recorded on Jan. 13 and was published Wednesday by The News Movement. The video shows Pretti wearing clothes and glasses similar to those he wore when he was killed.
The man on the video is seen shouting and spitting at federal agents before kicking and breaking the taillight of a federal SUV.
He shouted “f— you” repeatedly and flashed “double middle fingers as agents exited the vehicle, approached him and took him to the ground,” per Fox News.
Pretti’s family confirmed his identity in the video to The Minnesota Star Tribune.
Pretti was fatally shot by a Border Patrol officer.
“Customs and Border Patrol were trying to fend off a protester. He gets involved, resists arrest. He’s committing crimes all over the place,” Jarrett said.
“It’s tragic that he lost his life, and it may be a case of mistaken perceptions when the shooting occurred, which invokes the imperfect self-defense, but that video tells a lot about Alex Pretti,” he continued.
Steve Schleicher, the Pretti family’s attorney, released a statement to Fox News.
“A week before Alex was gunned down in the street – despite posing no threat to anyone – he was violently assaulted by a group of ICE agents,” the statement read.
“Nothing that happened a full week before could possibly have justified Alex’s killing at the hands of ICE on Jan. 24,” the statement added.
