A view of a makeshift memorial in the area where Alex Pretti was shot dead a day earlier by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 25, 2026. | Octavio Jones/AFP via Getty Images

A federal agent shoves a woman to the ground. A young man walks over to help her up. Then the agent pepper-sprays them both.

Despite the burning in his eyes, the young man keeps trying to get the woman upright — until a pack of masked, camouflaged officers wrestle him to the street.

They beat him. He writhes in pain. An agent realizes that he has a firearm holstered on his waist and confiscates it. Someone shouts, “Gun.” An officer fires a shot into the young man’s back — then keeps firing as he collapses. Now, a second agent is firing too. Bullet after bullet into a motionless body. Screams from bystanders as the whole world shakes.

This is what nearly everyone with eyes and an internet connection saw Saturday, when Border Patrol agents gunned down 37-year-old Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

The ICU nurse’s final moments were caught on multiple cellphone videos, each depicting one of the most horrifying “officer-involved” shootings of an era that’s seen plenty, including ICE’s killing of Renee Good in the same city, less than three weeks earlier.

Nevertheless, administration officials chose to defend the government’s........

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