US agents involved in Alex Pretti’s killing in Minneapolis placed on leave
Al Jazeera
Two agents placed on administrative leave as outrage continues over killing of intensive care nurse Alex Pretti.
Two United States federal agents involved in the fatal shooting of intensive care nurse Alex Pretti during an immigration raid in Minneapolis have been placed on administrative leave, as fallout from the most recent killing of a US citizen continues to cause outrage.
The two officers have been on leave since Saturday, in what US officials said on Wednesday was “standard protocol”, when Pretti was shot multiple times after being forced to the ground by masked immigration officers in an altercation that quickly turned deadly and was captured on video.
“The two officers involved are on administrative leave and have been since Saturday,” Al Jazeera’s Manuel Rapalo said, reading from a statement from a Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) spokesperson on Wednesday.
Rapalo, reporting from Minneapolis, said that it was “unclear whether or not the Department of Homeland Security has taken any sort of additional actions against the other officers who were involved in that fatal shooting”, referring to agents “seen in multiple videos helping to restrain Alex Pretti in the moments before that fatal shooting took place”.
US media, citing a preliminary investigation sent to members of the US Congress, report that a US Border Patrol agent initially opened fire on Pretti while he was on the ground, followed by a CBP officer, who also fired.
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