Due respect to poor Alex Pretti’s memory and to all his friends, co-workers and family members, but I don’t believe this.
Like 97% of everything on YouTube. including supposedly raw video, it’s almost certainly fake as far as Pretti’s death is concerned.
Pretti was dead on the street so why would anyone transport his body to the hospital where he worked? So they could stage this sad tribute? And where did the flag come from? Was it just…what, lying around?
And why “Taps” on the soundtrack? Was there a live bugler there? Pretti wasn’t a fallen soldier — he was just a decent, morally driven activist who was murdered by ICE thugs.
Partly because he tried to protect a woman who’d been shoved, and partly because he was unwise enough to wear a handgun during a volatile confrontation with macho rightwing street goons.
Never wrestle with these guys…ever. Whatever’s going on, just mildly submit in order to live and march and spread your gospel another day.