Minnesota: Government account of protester killing conflicts with witness testimony
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
There's been renewed protests and anger in Minneapolis following the fatal shooting of a man by federal immigration agents; the second such incident in the US city in three weeks. Also on the programme, a third and final stage of voting is taking place in Myanmar in what are widely viewed as sham elections; and, a new record for sailing round the world.
(Photo: A federal agent fires a munition toward demonstrators near the site where a man identified as Alex Pretti was fatally shot by federal agents trying to detain him, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., January 24, 2026.REUTERS/Tim Evans)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.3 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London. |
| 0:15.1 | I'm Tim Franks. We're only a quarter of the way through Donald Trump's second term, |
| 0:19.9 | so predicting what the moments we will remember of it is probably foolish. |
| 0:25.7 | And yet, it does feel as if what's happening right now in Minneapolis could well be one of those moments. |
| 0:31.9 | In particular, the latest killing by federal agents with Border Patrol. |
| 0:36.5 | Music the latest killing by federal agents with Border Patrol. |
| 0:51.4 | The sound recorded on phone videos of the shooting of 37-year-old Alex Preti, |
| 0:53.8 | an intensive care nurse from Minneapolis. His family said he'd gone out |
| 0:56.1 | onto the streets to join the protests against the huge surge in federal immigration agents |
| 1:00.1 | whose mission is to find arrest and deport unauthorised or illegal immigrants. Those whistles |
| 1:06.6 | you could hear in the background of the footage is to alert others to the presence of these ice agents, as they're known. |
| 1:13.3 | Almost immediately, the Trump administration tried to seize control of the narrative. |
| 1:17.1 | Preti had, they said, approached officers with a gun and violently resisted attempts to arrest and disarm him. |
| 1:24.3 | Greg Bovino is the commander of Border Patrol. |
| 1:27.2 | The suspect had a gun and magazines |
| 1:31.3 | full of ammunition in what looks like a situation again where an individual wanted to do |
| 1:37.3 | maximum damage and massacre law enforcement. But that account was quickly challenged by a number of |
| 1:43.8 | voices, a number of videos, |
| 1:45.8 | I should say, from different angles which appeared online. And by these sworn witness statements |
| 1:51.3 | deposited at the US District Court in Minnesota, which we have voiced up, this woman, first of all, |
| 1:57.9 | she said she was right next to Alex Prettie when he was shot. |
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