One 911 caller said he saw federal agents shoot a man 10 times. Another reported a dumpster being set ablaze by a flash-bang, while someone else said intruders were clambering to a rooftop above the smoke-filled mayhem as conflict engulfed Nicollet Avenue.
These accounts and others fielded by Minneapolis emergency dispatchers are spelled out in transcripts of 911 calls provided by the city to the Minnesota Star Tribune. Collectively, they stitch together the chaos in the moments after federal agents killed Alex Pretti nearly three weeks ago.
Pretti’s death came 17 days after another 37-year-old Minneapolis resident, Renee Good, was shot to death by a federal agent on Portland Avenue. Combined, they motivated marches, protests and vigils as the world’s eyes turned toward the city while the White House’s deportation crackdown pressed ahead before border czar Tom Homan announced this week the beginning of the mission’s drawdown.
‘Ten times in the chest’
“ICE just shot somebody out on 26th and Nicollet,” were the first words shortly after 9 a.m. from a caller to 911. “Ten times in the chest.” Twice he repeated the number of shots and their location before the call ended.
“And he was on the ground,” the man continued. “And they’re still like trying to detain him.”
He estimated there were 30 federal agents on the scene rounding up people.
“They’re taking the agent who shot [him] out of the scene right now,” the man said.
About 10 shots were fired by agents, according to a Minnesota Star Tribune analysis of video recorded at the scene.