INTRO: The family of Alex Pretti, the Minnesota native and U-S citizen who was fatally shot by federal immigration agents back in January, holding a press conference on Tuesday for the first time since the shooting. An attorney for the family, Steve Schleicher, says they have repeatedly reached out to U-S Attorney General Todd Blanche and U-S Attorney for the District of Minnesota Daniel Rosen for information about the shooting and a possible investigation, but they have been denied for nine months. He calls their treatment of the family “cruel, and unprecedented.”
ACK: Steve Schleicher – Pretti (PRET’-tee) Family Attorney
TAG: The 37-year-old Pretti was pepper-sprayed and knocked to the ground before being fatally shot by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge earlier this year. Video shows agents removing Pretti’s firearm right before shooting him. He was licensed to carry a handgun in the state. Minnesota officials investigating the shooting say the Trump administration has stopped sharing evidence with them.
KEYWORD: Crime, Legal
