Minneapolis crowds gather after death of Alex Pretti
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Crowds gather in Minneapolis at the site where US federal immigration agents shot dead 37-year-old Alex Pretti. We'll hear from a friend and colleague.
Also on the programme: the weirdness of election day in Myanmar from our correspondent there; and has Saudi Arabia's hugely ambitious mega city project run into the sand?
(Photo: A woman chants 'peace' at a makeshift memorial for Alex Pretti in south Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 25 January 2026. Credit: EPA/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.5 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour. |
| 0:11.6 | It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London. |
| 0:15.3 | I'm Tim Franks. |
| 0:16.9 | We're only a quarter of the way through Donald Trump's second term, |
| 0:20.1 | so predicting what the moments we will remember are is probably foolish. |
| 0:25.6 | And yet, it does feel as if what's happening right now in Minneapolis |
| 0:30.1 | could well be one of those moments. |
| 0:32.4 | In particular, the latest killing by federal agents with Border Patrol. |
| 0:44.3 | Thank you. particular, the latest killing by federal agents with Border Patrol. The sound recorded on phone videos of the shooting of 37-year-old Alex Preti on Saturday. |
| 0:50.7 | He was an intensive care nurse from Minneapolis. |
| 0:53.5 | His family said he'd gone out onto the |
| 0:55.1 | streets to join the protests against the huge surge of federal immigration agents whose mission is |
| 0:59.9 | to find arrest and deport unauthorised or legal immigrants. Those whistles you could hear in the footage |
| 1:06.5 | are to alert others to the presence of these ice agents, as they're known. |
| 1:13.7 | Almost immediately, the Trump administration tried to seize control of the narrative. Pretty, |
| 1:17.6 | they said, pretty, rather, had looked like an armed domestic terrorist bent on the mass |
| 1:25.1 | murder of law enforcement agents. That was the assessment on Saturday of the head of Border Patrol Greg Bovino. |
| 1:30.9 | Today, he was sounding less definitive, but he did have this warning. |
| 1:35.2 | I'm not going to speculate. |
| 1:36.9 | I've not concluded anything. |
| 1:38.6 | I've not given you a conclusion. |
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