It is unclear what preceded the events caught on camera, but the footage shows Pretti yelling at agents in an unmarked vehicle and kicking the tail light of the car as they move away. Soon after, a heavily armed agent in tactical gear is seen exiting the car and appears to tackle Pretti to the ground while other officers crowd around.

Pretti appeared to break free from the officers soon after, and then stood and remained on the scene as agents left. After Pretti’s coat was pulled off by the officers, the News Movement video shows what appears to be a gun in his waistband. Pretti, who was reported to have a permit to carry a concealed handgun, never touched it during or after the altercation.

A family representative confirmed to the Guardian that it was Pretti in the footage published on Wednesday.

The outlet reported that one woman was forcibly removed from her vehicle after officers smashed her window. Aisha Gomez, a state representative, was also at the scene and told the outlet that agents had tackled another man and pushed his head into the ground before carrying him away.

Gomez told the outlet officers had gotten physical with her, too, saying, “I was shoved with no verbal communication whatsoever.”

“The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting,” Pretti’s family said in a statement shortly after he was killed. “Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs … Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man.”

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    The very best way we can respond to this “SHOCKING NEW VIDEO” is to ignore it.

    It means nothing, it has nothing to do with anything, and the arguments the right is using to try to connect it to the man’s murder are so weak that anyone spouting off about it can’t withstand even the weakest pushback. So yeah, the Tim Pools and the other smooth-brained losers who run hate channels on youtube are going to play it over and over but it’s just a distraction from the fact that their main argument hinges on contradicting their own values. It’s a convenient distraction but it’s not really moving anyone outside of those pocket realms of mindless cults of personality.

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      If anything it would show how goddamn petty they are. Executed on the street for kicking a tail light? Seriously?

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        11 hours ago

        Fascists believe the government has the right to execute citizens for ANY infraction.

        J-walk? Execution.

        Park in a red zone? Execution.

        But not if they’re the ones doing it. Obviously.