Alex Pretti was ‘known’ to feds, had rib broken in anti-ICE protest a week before he was killed by Border Patrol

Alex Pretti was known to the feds and suffered a broken rib in a violent confrontation with agents a week before Border Patrol agents killed him in Minneapolis, according to a report.

Pretti, an ICU nurse, told a pal he saw ICE agents chasing what he described as a family on foot, and stopped his car during the earlier incident around a week before he was shot last Saturday, CNN reported.

Alex Pretti was known to the feds and allegedly suffered a broken rib in a violent confrontation with agents a week before his death in Minneapolis, sources have said. @dangjessie/UGC/AFP via Getty Images

Pretti, an ICU nurse, later told the source he saw ICE agents chasing what he described as a family on foot, and stopped his car during the earlier incident around a week before he was shot and killed last Saturday. US Department of Veterans Affairs/AFP via Getty Images

He said he pulled over in his car and began shouting and blowing on a whistle, at which point he was tackled by five agents, the source said.

Pretti claimed that one of the agents had left him with a broken rib after leaning on his back, the friend told CNN.

“That day, he thought he was going to die,” the source said, adding that Pretti had been released by agents at the scene.

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Federal immigration officers had documented details about Pretti, along with other anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis in recent weeks, CNN reported.

A memo sent this month to agents dispatched to the city asked them to “capture all images, license plates, identifications, and general information on hotels, agitators, protestors, etc., so we can capture it all in one consolidated form,” the network reported.