{"id":10033,"date":"2026-01-27T23:02:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T23:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/27\/alex-pretti-nurse-ethics-activism\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T23:02:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T23:02:55","slug":"alex-pretti-nurse-ethics-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/27\/alex-pretti-nurse-ethics-activism\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Alex Pretti was a nurse to the end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Opinion: Alex Pretti was a nurse to the end<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>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. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropsitenews.com\/p\/customs-border-patrol-agent-kills-minneapolis-nurse-video-analysis\">Videos<\/a> of Pretti\u2019s last moments show him acting non-violently: filming officers\u2019 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.mnd.229758\/gov.uscourts.mnd.229758.109.0.pdf\">sworn testimony<\/a>, denied timely CPR.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/01\/27\/alex-pretti-nurse-ethics-activism\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Patrick Smith<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/01\/27\/alex-pretti-nurse-ethics-activism\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s last moments show him acting non-violently: filming officers\u2019 actions, directing traffic, and attempting to help a woman who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2143,4639,2180],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-10033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-opinion","category-nurses","category-public-health","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}