Legal analyst says new video shows Alex Pretti's 'state of mind' before fatal Border Patrol shooting
Footage appears to show Pretti spitting at agents, damaging government SUV a week before Minnesota shooting
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Newly released video that appears to show Alex Pretti spitting at federal agents and damaging a government SUV days before he was fatally shot by U.S. Customs and Border Protection/Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis "shows his state of mind" leading up to his death, Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett said Wednesday.
"[He was] an angry person who is expressing his rage with assault. Spitting at an officer is assault, obviously attacking a federal government vehicle and destroying the property, and then he seems to resist, to some extent, the arrest. It tells you a lot about his mindset," Jarrett said on "Hannity."
The footage — reportedly recorded on Jan. 13 and published Wednesday by The News Movement — appears to show Pretti wearing clothes and glasses similar to those he wore when he was killed.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The man is seen shouting and spitting at federal agents before kicking the taillight of a federal SUV, causing it to break.
A man, who appears to be Alex Pretti, was seen in a new video kicking and spitting on a law enforcement vehicle. (The News Movement)
He shouted "f--- you" repeatedly and flashed double middle fingers as agents exited the vehicle, approached him and took him to the ground.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Pretti's family later confirmed his identity in the video to The Minnesota Star Tribune.
Just days later, Pretti was fatally shot by a Border Patrol officer during a targeted operation in Minneapolis, after video appeared to show him intervening to help a woman who had been knocked to the ground before the altercation continued.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Mourners gather at a makeshift memorial in the area where Alex Pretti was shot dead a day earlier by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis, Minn., on Jan. 25. (Octavio Jones/AFP/Getty Images)
"Customs and Border Patrol were trying to fend off a protester. He gets involved, resists arrest. He's committing crimes all over the place," Jarrett said.
"It's tragic that he lost his life, and it may be a case of mistaken perceptions when the shooting occurred, which invokes the imperfect self-defense, but that video tells a lot about Alex Pretti."
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Steve Schleicher, attorney for the Pretti family, told Fox News in a statement: "A week before Alex was gunned down in the street – despite posing no threat to anyone – he was violently assaulted by a group of ICE agents."
"Nothing that happened a full week before could possibly have justified Alex’s killing at the hands of ICE on Jan. 24."
Fox News' Greg Wehner and Matt Finn contributed to this report.