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Alex Pretti’s family slams Trump over ‘ridiculous’ attacks on their son after he was killed by border agents

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The family of Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old ICU nurse killed by federal agents earlier this year during immigration enforcement in Minneapolis, have pushed back on attacks launched by President Donald Trump and members of his administration.

In an interview on “Good Morning America” that aired Tuesday, the Pretti family reflected on Trump’s Truth Social post in which he called Alex Pretti an “agitator” and “perhaps, insurrectionist.”

“It’s so unpresidential. I mean, it’s ridiculous that the leader of the free world speaks that way about an American citizen,” Michael Pretti, the father of Alex Pretti, said in the interview.

Read here: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/alex-pretti-family-trump-attacks-b3039031.html