Opinion: Alex Pretti was a nurse to the end
On Saturday, amid demonstrations over Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity in Minneapolis, federal agents fatally shot Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse. Videos of Pretti’s last moments show him acting non-violently: filming officers’ actions, directing traffic, and attempting to help a woman who had been pushed to the ground. Still, he was pepper-sprayed, restrained, shot multiple times, and, per sworn testimony, denied timely CPR.
I was not surprised to learn that Pretti was a nurse. In his final moments, he did what nurses are educated to do: notice, care, and respond to an emergent threat.
Patrick Smith
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