Minnesota shooting: protests erupt over Alex Pretti killing | The Latest
by Lucy Hough Moira Donegan Bryony Moore Nosheen Iqba from US news | The Guardian on (#733YS)
Federal agents shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, the second such killing in the city within less than three weeks. Pretti was an intensive care nurse with no criminal record, yet federal agents raced to portray him as a violent gunman' who threatened to massacre' law enforcement. Video evidence directly contradicts this account. Since then, protests have erupted in the US. The Trump administration said it was reviewing' the incident. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian columnist Moira Donegan.
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