ProPublica has now identified the two federal immigration agents who shot and killed Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti: Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and CBP officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
For weeks, DHS hid behind masks and silence, refusing to name the shooters even as video showed Pretti filming agents, intervening when a woman was knocked to the ground, and being pepper-sprayed before a chaotic pile-on ended in roughly ten shots fired. Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse at a VA hospital, was legally armed, but video analysis suggests agents may have seized his gun before firing, directly contradicting claims that he posed an imminent threat.
The killing occurred under Operation Metro Surge, a Trump-era immigration dragnet that has flooded U.S. cities with masked federal agents, and comes days after another Minneapolis protester, Renee Good, was also killed by an immigration officer. With DOJ blocking state investigators and bodycam footage still withheld, the issue is now whether anonymous federal forces are being allowed to operate above the law.
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