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The parents of Alex Pretti, killed by immigration agents, share memories of their son and their grief. They denounce the administration's claims and seek answers about the shooting. The article details Pretti's life and the events leading up to his death.
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Others are from strangers who hail Mr. Pretti as a hero for his final actions, when he tried to help a woman shoved to the ground by a Customs and Border Protection agent, only to be tackled and shot multiple times.\u201cThere\u2019s probably 10 more in the mailbox today,\u201d Mr. Pretti\u2019s father, Michael, said on Tuesday in their first lengthy interview as he and his wife, Susan, held hands and talked about memories of their son, and the nightmare of anger, grief and unanswered questions they have faced since his killing on Jan. 24.\u201cHe\u2019s my first born,\u201d Susan Pretti said. \u201cHe\u2019s the one that made me a mother. There was no reason he should have died that day.\u201d\u201cNo,\u201d her husband said.To the Prettis, that box of letters helps tell the true story of their son, whom they called a curious, big-hearted man dedicated to his family, his nursing patients and his community in Minneapolis.They said they had not talked politics often with their son, but they knew he was upset about the immigration crackdown that brought about 3,000 federal agents to Minnesota this winter, and knew he had joined thousands of other people in protesting the raids and arrests.They said he had cherished his community in Minneapolis and had been aghast to see what was happening there.\u201cHe said, \u2018Mom, they\u2019re kidnapping kids,\u2019\u201d Mr. Pretti said, recalling a conversation. \u201c\u2018Why would anybody do that? Why would people treat each other like that? That just doesn\u2019t make any sense. There\u2019s no reason to.\u2019\u201dTrump administration officials have called their son a domestic terrorist who wanted to \u201cmassacre\u201d law enforcement, and blamed him for inserting himself into the tense, sometimes violent immigration protests in Minneapolis while he was carrying a handgun with a valid permit.Alex Pretti\u2019s parents denounced the administration\u2019s claims in the hours after his death as \u201csickening lies.\u201d Videos from the scene show that Alex Pretti never drew his gun and was on his knees and had been disarmed by a federal agent a moment before he was shot.Those videos play on painful repeat in the Prettis\u2019 memories now, they said. Mr. Pretti added that he had to mute the television and shield his eyes if it popped up on the news.But they said the videos proved their son did not deserve to be killed on a snowy Minneapolis street that morning.\u201cIt\u2019s so clear as to what happened,\u201d Mr. Pretti said.ImageThe Pretti family, from left to right, Michael, Micayla, Alex and Susan.Credit...via the Pretti FamilyThe parents\u2019 lawyer, Steven Schleicher, who served as a special prosecutor in the murder trial of the Minneapolis police officer who killed George Floyd, said Tuesday that the Prettis were seeking \u201cfacts and accountability\u201d and wanted to know the full truth about the federal agents who shot their son and exactly what happened on that street that morning.The Prettis\u2019 television stayed off on Tuesday as top immigration officials in Washington were testifying to Congress about the administration\u2019s deportation campaign. The officials refused to answer questions about the killings of Mr. Pretti or Renee Good.The Prettis said they had tried to keep their focus on their son\u2019s life, and not on the uproar touched off by his death.\u201cThe truth is, he was an exceptionally kind, caring man,\u201d Michael Pretti said.The couple described themselves as a \u201cgood Midwestern family\u201d who raised Alex and his younger sister, Micayla, in a tight-knit neighborhood in Green Bay, Wis.They ate dinner together nearly every night and made their house a destination for play dates and sleepovers. They said they had attended all of their children\u2019s basketball games and track meets and had served as a parental taxi service for practices and trips to the mall and doughnut shops.From an early age, they said, Alex was curious about how the world worked and what lay beneath the surface.When Alex was 5 or 6, Ms. Pretti said, she decorated his room with a fish-themed wallpaper border, and he ripped away one section. He told his mother he had just wanted to see what was behind it, she said.He devoured books about space and science in his room, decorated with a poster of the solar system, and immersed himself in music and theater, playing the guitar and the piano and singing for years with a local boys\u2019 choir.\u201cHe always wanted to know more,\u201d Mr. Pretti said.As he grew up, his parents said, he tried to fathom why people treated one another cruelly. He had a wide circle of friends and sometimes came home from his Catholic elementary school upset that another student had been bullied.\u201cThere was always an underlying seriousness to him,\u201d Ms. Pretti said.After graduating from Preble High School in 2006, he attended the University of Minnesota and quickly made Minnesota his home.He found work as a research assistant and eventually became a nurse at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Minneapolis. He worked overnight at first and would often call his parents after an exhausting shift.Image\u201cWe really ramped up, \u2018Be careful,\u2019\u201d Michael Pretti said after Alex told him of the first incident with federal agents.Credit...via the Pretti FamilyHis parents said that Alex had told them about an earlier confrontation with federal agents that occurred on Jan. 13. Video of that incident shows him spitting toward an agent and kicking the taillight of a vehicle before agents tackle him and briefly detain him. He appears to be carrying a handgun at his back during that incident.The incident came up during a regular check-in with his parents, and Alex told them he had been hurt but was fine. He did not go into detail, they said, but they told him to be careful \u2014 a caution they always gave both children at the end of nearly every phone conversation.\u201cWe really ramped up, \u2018Be careful,\u2019\u201d Michael Pretti said, and Alex responded, \u201cI will.\u201dSome critics have pointed to that earlier confrontation as evidence that Alex Pretti was aggressive. But the parents\u2019 lawyer, Mr. Schleicher, has responded, \u201cnothing that happened a full week before could possibly have justified Alex\u2019s killing.\u201dThey last spoke to Alex a day before his death. His garage door had broken in the subzero cold, and Michael Pretti said he had helped arranged a repair from afar. He said Alex had called on Friday to report that the door was fixed and that he had tipped the repairman $100.When they saw the video of their son\u2019s death, the Prettis said they saw their son\u2019s character showing through.\u201cHis last act on this earth, his last thought, was to help this woman,\u201d his father said.\u201cIt\u2019s who he was, every day,\u201d his mother said. \u201cHe\u2019s the same Alex he always was.\u201dMemories of Alex have been flickering through his parents\u2019 minds almost nonstop, they said, as they try to figure out when they can return to work and begin to plan for a private memorial service for him later this spring.They have been thinking about how, as a boy, he would help his younger sister walk up and down the stairs. How he would call up his parents to describe his latest tweaks to his mountain bike. And as a child, how he would ask his parents, \u201cIf you could push a button\u201d to make anything happen, what would it be?\u201cIf we could push a button,\u201d Mr. Pretti said, \u201cwe\u2019d have Alex back with us.\u201dJack Healy is based in Colorado and covers the west and southwest.See more on: U.S. Politics, Donald TrumpRead 274 commentsShare full articleRelated ContentAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT", "ai_headline": "Unrest in MinneapolisInterview with Alex Pretti\u2019s Parents", "ai_simplified_title": "Alex Pretti's Parents Discuss Son's Death by Immigration Agents", "ai_excerpt": "The parents of Alex Pretti, killed by immigration agents, share memories of their son and their grief. They denounce the administration's claims and seek answers about the shooting. 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Unrest in MinneapolisInterview with Alex Prettiโs ParentsImmigration Officials TestifySecret Grocery NetworksDetention PipelineSurge in Immigration CasesAlex Prettiโs parents keep a box crammed with 200 letters and cards that have poured into their suburban Denver home since their 37-year-old son was shot and killed by immigration agents last month in Minneapolis.Some are from health-care workers and veterans praising Mr. Prettiโs work as an intensive-care nurse at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Others are from strangers who hail Mr. Pretti as a hero for his final actions, when he tried to help a woman shoved to the ground by a Customs and Border Protection agent, only to be tackled and shot multiple times.โThereโs probably 10 more in the mailbox today,โ Mr. Prettiโs father, Michael, said on Tuesday in their first lengthy interview as he and his wife, Susan, held hands and talked about memories of their son, and the nightmare of anger, grief and unanswered questions they have face...
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ a1164ab7-bb12-41b6-bc20-9dddc9077de3Simplified: Alex Prettiโs parents keep a box crammed with 200 letters and cards
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ท๏ธ Law Enforcement , Legal , Statistical ๐ a1162b14-00b4-4e31-a9cc-cf10085ed189Simplified: Mr Brownโs case is among 16 shootings by on-duty federal immigration agents in US cities and towns over the past year including those that took the li...
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ a1164ab8-0fa0-460c-b71f-1fd48e1500a1Simplified: Some letters are from health-care workers and veterans praising Mr Prettiโs work as an intensive-care nurse at the Department of Veterans Affairs
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ท๏ธ Law Enforcement , Investigation ๐ a1164a62-f85c-43a7-8c94-946aaf9aa63aSimplified: Witness videos showed Mr Pretti recording immigration officers and helping a civilian before officers wrestled him to the ground
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ a1164ab8-6962-48dc-abcd-39bdc3c8d152Simplified: Alex Pretti was tackled and shot multiple times
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ a1164ab8-da9a-44c2-bd6a-b11bdcd41e6aSimplified: Trump administration officials called their son a domestic terrorist who wanted to massacre law enforcement
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ a1164ab8-fe39-4480-8037-c86a630208caSimplified: Trump administration officials blamed Alex Pretti for inserting himself into the tense sometimes violent immigration protests in Minneapolis while he...
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ a1164ab9-4eb8-40c2-bc98-056aa6191fb5Simplified: Alex Pretti found work as a research assistant and eventually became a nurse at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Minneapolis
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ a1164ab9-86e3-408a-a4a7-3c546b7a9238Simplified: Alex Pretti told his parents about an earlier confrontation with federal agents that occurred on Jan 13
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ a1164ab9-a998-4560-b5e1-018590c070e0Simplified: Video of that incident shows him spitting toward an agent and kicking the taillight of a vehicle before agents tackle him and briefly detain him
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ a1164ab9-e2f0-44dc-9548-3adb39305156Simplified: The incident came up during a regular check-in with his parents
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ a1164aba-0200-4794-ae22-a6e8562ec0dfSimplified: Alex told them he had been hurt but was fine
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ a1164aba-1d15-4a84-b956-bcfcda6f18cfSimplified: They told him to be careful a caution they always gave both children at the end of nearly every phone conversation
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ a1164aba-6701-4d7c-8613-e1be8e428530Simplified: Some critics have pointed to that earlier confrontation as evidence that Alexโs killing
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๐ค Michael Pretti ๐ News Article ๐ a1164aba-aa99-43f5-a365-3fedded3448dSimplified: His garage door had broken in the subzero cold and Michael Pretti said he had helped arranged a repair from afar
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ a1164aba-c7b1-4076-bc70-c638609e40abSimplified: He said Alex had called on Friday to report that the door was fixed and that he had tipped the repairman $100
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ a1164aba-e738-480f-a0f9-81c37b63ca3eSimplified: When they saw the video of their sonโs death the Prettis said they saw their sonโs character showing through
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๐ค His father ๐ News Article ๐ a1164abb-0408-46c8-85d0-7bb136efe503Simplified: His last act on this earth his last thought was to help this woman his father said
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๐ค His mother ๐ News Article ๐ a1164abb-3ad6-47c7-9d12-560bc0946ca5Simplified: Heโs the same Alex he always was
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ a1164abb-57f5-4b75-a44f-912ad7fa10f0Simplified: Memories of Alex have been flickering through his parentsโ minds almost nonstop they said as they try to figure out when they can return to work and b...
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ a1164abb-7810-45b4-bceb-97339eb10979Simplified: They have been thinking about how as a boy he would help his younger sister walk up and down the stairs
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ a1164abb-995c-42f6-be57-1892cd915091Simplified: How he would call up his parents to describe his latest tweaks to his mountain bike
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ a1164abb-b3e9-4461-9505-08747abd5e12Simplified: And as a child how he would ask his parents If you could push a button to make anything happen what would it be