She remembers the pepper spray first. The woman says she watched ICE agents douse three people in the face, including the man with the phone who lifted his hands above his head instead of fighting back. She insists she never saw a gun in his hands, only that phone, and a desperate attempt to help a woman the agents had already shoved to the ground.
Pinned beneath four or five officers, Alex Pretti was then riddled with bullets. The witness, now part of an ACLU lawsuit, says she is “disgusted and gutted” by what was done in her city. Video appears to show agents removing Pretti’s gun before the shooting, undermining claims that he was a would‑be killer. His grieving family say the government is smearing a dead man, begging the country to remember him not as a threat, but as a good man who tried to protect others.
