The footage appeared to be published on Wednesday Alex Pretty An immigration agent’s car was kicked and thrown to the ground during a standoff less than two weeks before he was shot and killed in Minneapolis.
news movement On January 13, the incident was captured by the outlet. It said in the X post that “it appears Alex Pretty is interacting with federal immigration agents” and that the clip was analyzed by the BBC, “whose facial recognition technology confirmed his identity with 97% accuracy.”
The BBC confirmed the video’s authenticity during its 10pm GMT news broadcast. reporter Ross Atkins The person in the video said “Alex Pretty has the same coat, facial hair and gait and facial recognition equipment suggests a 97% match. We see him taunting the agents.” Separately, a BBC spokesperson confirmed to Mediaite that they had reviewed the footage and verified that its team used facial recognition technology in the video.
You can watch the BBC footage below, or watch the footage on their website (relevant part starts at :50 mark):
CNN, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and other outlets have also now confirmed that the man in the video with the Pretty family is Alex Pretty.
said a narrator for the video of TNM The team – consisting of journalists Dallin Mello and Dan Ming — Federal agents received a tip that Minneapolis was blocking a road at 10:15 a.m. When they arrived, they recorded a man who looked like Pretty spitting in a Ford SUV and yelling at immigration agents that they were “f*king trash!”
The man who looked like Preeti wore a black hat, gray coat and had a beard; The narrator said it was similar to the outfit Pretty was wearing when she was killed on January 24. He then kicked the right tail light twice and flipped the middle finger of the vehicle.
At that point, “the agent exited the vehicle, grabbed him and pushed him to the ground,” the voiceover said.
A person who looks like Preeti can be seen trying to run away from one of the agents before another agent catches her and both of them throw her down.
“During the scuffle, agents fired tear gas and pepper spray into the crowd,” the narrator continued. “They continued to hold the man before they retreated and he walked away.”
The narrator said the footage showed a gun “visible above his waistband”.
The footage soon went viral on X after it was posted on Wednesday. Republican communications consultant Steve Guest posted the clip and it drew 1.4 million views in its first two hours. He incorrectly said it was a “bombshell report from the BBC” – a mistake made by many other users.
“Important context: Pretty was not a peaceful protester,” the guest added.
Greg Price – which lists a “rapid response manager” for the president of Donald Trump White House as his work on LinkedIn – also shared clips.
“Alex Pretty spits on a federal agent and then shoots out his taillight in footage released by the BBC 11 days before his death,” he posted.
Megyn Kelly shared the clip and said it left Pretty “itching for another encounter with the Border Patrol, whom he was stalking, harassing and terrorizing.”
He continued, “He was persecuting them. His crimes are on tape. He was reckless, and it cost him his life. Find another post boy, illegal-loving leftist.”
“Wow,” Team Pool He said in the caption of the video. He wondered if Pretty “would have found out when the agents tried to arrest him?”
pre-The Daily Wire reporter Ryan Saavedra Also shared.
And so is a Turning Point USA contributor Savannah Hernandez.
The video comes days after President Trump said his administration was “reviewing everything” about the shooting.
See above via news movement on YouTube.
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David Gilmore contributed reporting.
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