The footage of the fatal shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, said one journalist, “shows that the final act of his life was trying to help a woman who was being physically assaulted by the masked agents who would then kill him.”

In the original video of the shooting of a man in Minneapolis, identified by the Minneapolis Star Tribune at 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a woman in a pink coat was seen in the background filming the incident with her phone.

Drop Site News obtained footage that appeared “to come from the direction of the woman in pink filming from the sidewalk” and showed the shooting at a closer distance than the footage taken from inside Glam Doll Donuts.

In the video, the shooting victim, dressed in a brown coat and pants, is seen filming a federal agent with his phone. He’s then seen guiding another person toward the sidewalk as the agent forcefully shoves a third person to the ground.

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    How many more people have to be murdered before Congress act?

    How many more innocent civilians have to die at the hands of the government before the elected representatives of those people take action?

    The USA is descending into an authoritarian state and Congress is letting it happen.

    They could end it whenever they want. This on them as well as criminals perpetrating these heinous crimes.

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      How many more people have to be murdered before Congress act?

      I recommend studying the Wilmington Insurrection. It was a time when in response to frustrations with Wilmington being a majority black town with thriving black enterprise, the white minority who lived there gathered arms and killed anyone non-white who showed up to vote, then went through the town rounding up and murdering black people. Resulting in Democrats (this was before the parties switched) winning for the first time. The state wouldn’t see a black senator again until nearly a century later.

      Wanna know where the federal government was? Because they knew about it.

      Woodrow Wilson actually gave instructions for the national guard to step in and HELP THE INSURRECTIONISTS if it started going badly for them.

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        Thanks. That was an interesting read! Feels like we’re slowly heading back to those sort of times to be honest.

        I can imagine Trump using the National Guard as an enforcement tool in the elections but we’ll see.

        As a side note, when you said Woodrow Wilson did you mean William Mckinley?

        I’m not trying to be a dick, just seeing if you made a mistake or you actually did mean Woodrow Wilson and I’ve missed something!