Support for immigration crackdown was dropping even before shooting of protester Alex Pretti

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U.S. federal agents have killed another protester in Minneapolis. The lethal shooting of Alex Pretti appears even more egregiously unjustified than the similar killing of Renee Good. The continued siege of the state of Minnesota by the Trump administration is not only repelling Americans who once supported the president’s hard line on immigration, but also costing lives and driving Republicans and Democrats to exchange positions on core issues like the right to keep and bear arms.

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Multiple video recordings of the incident show Pretti, a Veterans’ Administration ICU nurse, holding a cellphone as he helps a person who had just been pepper-sprayed and manhandled by Border Patrol agents. As he did so, he moved between agents and the person and was sprayed himself before being wrestled to the ground. Pretti had a concealed carry permit and a pistol on him as is his constitutionally protected right. Once on the ground, face down, a Border Patrol officer took Pretti’s pistol. And then, after he was disarmed, another officer killed him with, reports say, 10 shots.

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