Alex Pretti's death at the hands of US border patrol enrages many Americans
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🗓️ 27 January 2026
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Another American citizen has been shot and killed by US immigration officers in Minneapolis as protests against ICE and border patrol intensify across the nation. Thirty-seven-year-old Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse who treated veterans. Meanwhile in Washington, Democrats are threatening to pull out of the government funding deal reached last week because of the money earmarked for expanding immigration enforcement. If they do so, that would trigger another government shutdown. Has the country reached an inflection point? USA TODAY Breaking News Reporter Christopher Cann joins The Excerpt to break down all the new developments.
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| 0:00.0 | Another American citizen has been shot and killed by immigration officers in Minneapolis |
| 0:10.0 | as protests against immigration enforcement intensify across the nation. |
| 0:14.0 | 37-year-old Alex Preti was an ICU nurse who treated veterans. |
| 0:19.0 | Meanwhile, in Washington, |
| 0:21.5 | Democrats are threatening to pull out of the funding deal reached last week |
| 0:24.7 | because of the money being provided for immigration enforcement. |
| 0:28.3 | If they do so, that would trigger another government shutdown. |
| 0:35.9 | Hello and welcome to USA Today is The Excerpt. I'm Dana Taylor. Today is Tuesday, January 27, 26. |
| 0:43.1 | Here to help us understand this inflection point in how the country is responding to immigration enforcement is USA Today breaking news reporter Christopher Kahn. |
| 0:52.7 | Christopher, thank you so much for making the time to come back on |
| 0:54.9 | the show. Thanks for having me. Let's start with the news out of Minneapolis over the weekend, |
| 1:00.5 | the killing of Alex Pretti. What happened there? So on Saturday morning, Alex Pretti, as you mentioned, |
| 1:07.5 | ICU nurse who worked at a VA hospital in Minneapolis. He was shot and killed by Border Patrol agents. |
| 1:13.6 | He was one of several people who were filming agents at the time while they were conducting |
| 1:17.9 | enforcement operations. |
| 1:19.7 | That's become a very common practice in Minneapolis in recent weeks. |
| 1:23.7 | The videos quickly were shared online about the shooting and show Prattie holding up his phone and recording agents. |
| 1:31.3 | At one point, one of them pushes a woman who was standing near Prattie to the ground. |
| 1:35.3 | Pretty could be seen then trying to help her and lead her away. |
| 1:39.3 | When he's pepper sprayed and taken to the ground, he's surrounded by Border Patrol agents, and then when eventually |
| 1:45.8 | opens fire, killing him. Now, local and federal officials both say that Preddy had a gun on him |
| 1:52.3 | while he was filming federal agents that morning. Brian O'Hara, the police chief in Minneapolis, |
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