Family members say the man killed by a U.S. Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis on Saturday was an intensive care nurse at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital who cared deeply about people and was upset by Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in his city.

Alex Jeffrey Pretti, 37, was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed getting in adventures with Joule, his beloved Catahoula Leopard dog who also recently died. He had participated in protests following the killing of Renee Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs officer on Jan. 7.

Pretti was a U.S. citizen, born in Illinois. Like Good, court records showed he had no criminal record and his family said he had never had any interactions with law enforcement beyond a handful of traffic tickets.

In a recent conversation with their son, his parents, who live in Colorado, told him to be careful when protesting.

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    21 days ago

    I encourage everyone to keep an eye out on Youtube and the like for channels like S2 Underground and to report them when they parrot the admin’s obvious lies.

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        21 days ago

        Was way too quiet when they were saying there were roving lynch mobs in their other video.

        Judging by the comments their Insta was banned, so there’s some justice in the world.

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      I liked his channel for the radio stuff and occasionally watched wire reports about international events. With recent American events that have popped up on my feed over the last few weeks, he’s swan dived into the kool-aid.

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        Yeah, the way they’ve been cherry picking clips and editing them leaves no doubt at this point. Something tells me they won’t be posting videos about how to sabotage under this administration like they did 4 years ago.