Some internet users said the video, which spread widely after Pretti's death, showed medical staff honoring a patient during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pretti, an intensive care nurse, was never seen holding his phone in such a manner in footage of the fatal incident.

AFGE Local 3669 called the death of Alex Pretti “tragic and senseless” and said it is “especially disappointed” with U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins’ reaction.

Despite video evidence that Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti was holding his phone before immigration officers shot and killed him, an image spreading on social media appears to show him wielding a handgun.

President Trump told reporters Tuesday he had not heard some of his officials refer to Alex Pretti as an “assassin” after being fatally shot by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis over the weekend. “Do you agree with the assessment from some of your own officials that Alex Pretty is a domestic terrorist or an assassin?

An online fundraising campaign on behalf of the family of Alex Pretti, who was fatally shot in Minneapolis during a confrontation with federal immigration officers on Jan. 24, has raised more than $1.

"This could be any of us," a federal health worker told a gathering on the Near West Side Tuesday before a memorial honoring the VA nurse who was shot to death by a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis.

Between 50 and 1,000 people are expected to take part in a memorial ride for Alex Pretti on Saturday in Minneapolis.