From Neighbor to News: Remembering Alex Pretti
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A personal essay by Kristen Radtke recounting how her childhood friend Alex Pretti was shot 10 times by federal agents in Minneapolis. While preparing a eulogy for his grandfather, she watches eyewitness videos and confronts the way public tragedy is consumed by social media, reflecting on Pretti’s humanity as an ICU nurse and the gap between the footage and the truth. The piece closes with a correction: it was CBP agents, not ICE, who killed him.
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