In the span of eleven days, Alex Pretti went from<\/p>\n
a furious protester clashing with immigration agents<\/p>\n
to a national symbol of a country at war with itself.<\/p>\n
The newly verified footage shows him spitting toward<\/p>\n
officers, kicking out a taillight, and being slammed to<\/p>\n
the pavement as tear gas rolls over demonstrators.<\/p>\n
A licensed handgun rides at his back, a detail that<\/p>\n
now feels like a warning no one heard in time.<\/p>\n
When Border Patrol agents tackled him again on January 24,<\/p>\n
they ripped that same pistol from his waistband. Investigators now<\/p>\n
believe a stray round from Pretti\u2019s own gun may have triggered the<\/p>\n
deadly volley that followed. His family insists he posed no lethal threat;<\/p>\n
federal authorities insist their agents faced one. Between those two<\/p>\n
narratives lies a broken rib, a dead nurse, two shootings in three weeks,<\/p>\n
and a president quietly pulling his own forces out of a state he set ablaze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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