Minneapolis shooting: parents of Alex Pretti say Trump officials are telling ‘sickening lies’

<p>Family releases statement saying: ‘Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs’</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/24/alex-pretti-killing-witness-testimony">Alex Pretti did not brandish gun, witnesses say in sworn testimony</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/24/protests-alex-pretti-killing-federal-agents-ice">Large protests spread across US after Alex Pretti fatally shot</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/24/alex-pretti-minneapolis-what-we-know-so-far">Alex Pretti killing by federal agents: what we know so far</a></p></li></ul><p>Further to the last post, fellow actress <strong>Natalie Portman</strong> got emotional as she described her feelings over a “horrible day”.</p><p>“What is happening in our country is just obscene,” she said in Park City, where she was promoting the film The Gallerist.</p><p>What Trump and [homeland security secretary) <strong>Kristi Noem</strong> and ICE are doing to our citizens and to undocumented people is outrageous and needs to end.</p><p>These brave Americans who have stepped out to protest the injustice of these ICE quote/unquote ‘officers,’ and watching them be murdered – it’s unfathomable. We cannot normalize it.</p><p>We may have a government that is somehow trying to make excuses for it and legitimize it, but we [Americans] don’t.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/jan/25/minneapolis-shooting-parents-of-alex-pretti-say-trump-officials-are-telling-sickening-lies">Continue reading...</a>

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