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

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.

    • Ech@lemmy.ca
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      9 hours ago

      You’re experience with people calling out Democrats in your first post may have given you the wrong impression - Lemmy doesn’t have much of a right wing problem, but it does have an overabundance of leftists. You’ll hear a lot of similar “fuck liberals” comments from them, but from the other end of the spectrum. You’ll also find a lot of tankies here - leftists that unfailingly support violent, authoritarian regimes, mostly because they’re a country other then the US or EU.

      In short, you’ll find the political inclinations of users here to be (possibly confusingly) diverse, if you stick around.

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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          7 minutes ago

          I didn’t accuse you of being a bot.

          But you did ignore my point, which is that reddit is crawling with right wing bullshit and Lemmy isn’t at all, but it seems like you implied Lemmy has a lot compared to reddit. Which is bizarre. Especially since you made an account hours ago, you wouldn’t have had time to see much if any right wing bullshit.