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How Alex Pretti’s death became a national tipping point
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People gather near a makeshift memorial for Mr Alex Pretti at the site where he was fatally shot by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis.
PHOTO: JAMIE KELTER DAVIS/NYTIMES
Kurt Streeter
NEW YORK – Ms Renee Good was killed on Jan 7. Mr Alex Pretti on Jan 24. Federal agents killed both of them, and the administration labelled both of them terrorists – labels that quickly fell apart when the public learned more about each case and saw videos of the shootings.
Yet it was Mr Pretti’s death that broke the dam,
