Alex Pretti, Martyr

“Are you okay?” These were the last known words of Alex Jeffrey Pretti. In the moments before his death, he was holding up his phone to record the actions of ICE and CBP agents. When a woman backing away from those agents was shoved to the ground by one of them, Pretti yelled, “Don’t touch her!” And then—as he and the woman were both pepper-sprayed—he turned to her and asked, “Are you okay?” After this, several masked men tackled Pretti to the ground and struck him repeatedly in the face. Finally, they shot him ten times in the back.