United States President Donald Trump has shared a video on Truth Social showing Alex Pretti in a confrontation with federal immigration agents 11 days before the intensive care nurse was fatally shot during a separate encounter with Border Patrol agents.
The footage shows Mr Pretti was forcefully taken to the ground by federal immigration agents after kicking out the tail-light of their vehicle during a Minneapolis protest on January 13.
The video posted to Mr Trump's Truth Social account includes overlay of Senator Elizabeth Warren, speaking about Mr Pretti.
"Alex carried patience, compassion and calm as a steady light within him," Warren can be heard saying in the video, which shows Mr Pretti kicking the car.
In one of the original videos, published by the Minnesota Star Tribune and later obtained by the Associated Press, Pretti is seen shouting an expletive at the federal officers and struggling with them.
His winter coat comes off when he's on the ground, before he either breaks free or the officers let him go and he scurries away.
When he turns his back to the camera, what appears to be a handgun is visible in his waistband.
At no point do the videos show Mr Pretti reaching for the gun and it is unclear whether the federal agents saw it.
A representative for the Pretti family confirmed the man in the video was Mr Pretti.
The new videos immediately rekindled the national debate about the death of Mr Pretti.
Steve Schleicher, a Minneapolis-based attorney representing Mr Pretti's parents, said in a statement to the ABC that the earlier altercation in no way justified the officers' fatal shooting of Mr Pretti on Saturday.
"A week before Alex was gunned down in the street — despite posing no threat to anyone — he was violently assaulted by a group of [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] agents," Mr Schleicher said in a statement.
"Nothing that happened a full week before could possibly have justified Alex's killing at the hands of ICE on Jan 24."
New videos under review
Homeland Security Investigations is reviewing the new videos and incident, a spokesperson with the department said.
It is not known if any of the officers involved were also there when Pretti was killed.
Last weekend's fatal shooting occurred on a sidewalk next to the street where Pretti had been videoing immigration officers.
In video taken by bystanders, one officer pushes him, then Mr Pretti is taken to the ground and a half-dozen officers try to subdue him.
One spots Mr Pretti's weapon, which he was licensed to carry, and shouts: "He's got a gun."
Two officers then open fire and Mr Pretti is killed.
Trump administration officials quickly reacted, saying Mr Pretti had approached officers with a gun and attacked them.
The altercation and shooting was captured in multiple videos and showed Mr Pretti never brandished his gun and did not assault any officer.
He was holding his phone when he was shot in the back while on the ground.
Observers were 'pretty distraught and screaming'
The new videos from the week prior to the shooting came from two sources.
The one obtained by the AP was taken by Max Shapiro, a witness who filmed the interaction.
The second was by a crew for The News Movement, an online media outlet.
Mr Shapiro, an attorney in Minneapolis, recounted in an interview that he saw over a Signal chat that immigration enforcement was in the area.
Driving over, Mr Shapiro parked half a block from officers and got out.
"The observers were pretty distraught and screaming," he said.
He added that the officers began trying to get the crowd back, but their directives were largely drowned out in whistles and shouts.
The video from The News Movement shows Mr Pretti wearing glasses, a dark baseball cap and a winter coat, yelling at federal vehicles.
At one point, he appears to spit and yell "trash" toward the driver's side of a dark Ford Expedition with flashing red and blue lights.
As the vehicle pulls slowly away, Mr Pretti kicks at the tail-light and then delivers a second kick that shatters the red plastic and leaves the tail-light dangling.
Mr Shapiro began filming on his phone just after Pretti kicked out the tail-light.
Both videos capture the rear door of the SUV swinging open and an immigration officer wearing a gas mask and helmet getting out. He starts walking toward Mr Pretti.
The officer grabs Mr Pretti's shirt at his chest, pulling him back toward the vehicle as Mr Pretti's arms flail.
The officer pulls Mr Pretti back onto the street and down onto his knees, falling over Mr Pretti in the scuffle.
Other masked and helmeted officers surround them and try to subdue Mr Pretti.
Others stand guard between them and a screaming crowd, before the officers set off tear gas canisters and withdraw.
After Pretti stumbles away, Mr Shapiro walks over and hugs Pretti, asking if he is OK.
Pretti affirms that he is, before turning to others involved in the melee and asking: "Are we all OK? Are we all safe?"
Mr Shapiro said he understood some would use the videos to try to vilify Mr Pretti, but that he seemed like someone who cared deeply about what was happening to the people caught up in the Trump administration's deportation push.
"I'm no immigration policy expert," Mr Shapiro said.
"But there has to be a better way to go about this."
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