Name: What videos reveal about the lead-up to Alex Pretti’s killing
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Federal immigration officers fatally shot a man Saturday in Minneapolis.

He was an ICU nurse who worked at a local veteran affairs hospital.

Another controversial killing by US Immigration agents and the second US citizen killed this month.

CNN analyzed cell phone footage from multiple angles.

Taken together, they appear at odds with the Department of Homeland Security's initial claims about the lead up to officers firing on Alex Preddy.

Around 9am Central video captures two people approaching a federal immigration officer in front of an unidentified vehicle.

The sound of whistles is blaring in the background.

Here he's filming an officer interacting with protesters and waving a car through.

In their statement, DHS said that an individual approached officers with, quote unquote, a 9 millimeter semi automatic handgun.

This video seems to show officers approaching Preddy instead of the other way around.

We'll see later that Preddy does appear to have had a gun in his waistband.

But this video shows he didn't have a gun in his hand, only a phone.

Video from this white car shows an up close angle of a federal immigration officer pushing one protester.

Then three seconds later, he pushes Preddy.

And then as the camera comes into focus, you see the same federal officer push a third protester with the orange backpack.

Preddy raises his hand and turns away just as the officer sprays him with a chemical irritant.

You see Preddy and the other protester trying to help the person with the orange backpack.

You can see here an officer pulling Preddy off of this person.

Three more officers join and then two more.

One officer in a tan beanie can be seen repeatedly striking Preddy's head with a metal can.

You can see an officer in a gray jacket walk into the frame.

The officer removes the gun from Preddy's belt.

The officer steps away from the scene carrying a firearm seen here in his right hand.

We looked back at the scene from different angles and slowed down the footage.

This officer wearing a black beanie can be seen drawing his firearm and pointing it in Preddy's direction.

We can't see his gun when the first shot is fired, but

we can see that this officer fired the second shot.

In this angle you see a second officer also had his gun drawn.

And here he's pointing his weapon at Preddy.

As we hear gunshots, though it isn't clear if he's the One firing.

Preddy collapses onto the ground as the officers scatter backwards from around him.

The same agent in the black beanie from earlier can be seen firing five final shots as Preddy lies there motionless.

Nobody approached his body for 24 seconds.

When officers do return to Preddy, they appear to begin searching his body.

Video shows that about a minute after Preddy collapsed, immigration officers ask for medical support.

When CNN asked DHS about the officer removing the gun before the shooting, DHS repeated their earlier statement called quote, officers attempted to disarm the suspect but the armed suspect violently resisted.

Joining me now is Juliette Kayam, CNN national security analyst and former assistant secretary at dhs.

And I want to play for you Greg Bevino, the Border Patrol commander at large in just a moment.

Is there something in particular that stood out to you about how officers at the scene handled the moment?

I think we have to remember that they created it.

I think every time I look at it, I am surprised how quickly it does the opposite of de.

So the situation that they find themselves in, even giving them the benefit of the doubt or they didn't know what was going on, they in fact created by their approach to Freddie.

Every time I see it at that stage then, you know, it's just chaos.

They don't quite know what are they trying to do with him.

Then there's this, you know, scream of the gun.

The best case scenario for ICE is it was a confused shot that then led to multiple other shots.

But the problem was is that then they came out immediately attacking the victim and saying everything they did was right.

Our own Dana Bash had a very striking discussion with the Border Patrol commander Greg Bevino.

And here is the moment where she is asking him some of these questions about, about what was happening.

That's freeze frame adjudication of a crime scene via a photo.

That's why we have an investigation that is going to answer those questions.

All those questions are going to be answered in In.

Us, we're not going to adjudicate that here on tv in one freeze frame there.

It's interesting hearing this phrase freeze frame adjudication.

What do you make of how he tried to defend this at one point, even saying that the sort of real victims were the ICE agents themselves?

This is the problem that the department finds itself in, is the citizen journalist.

And citizen videos from multiple viewpoints are unquestionable at this stage.

And what's interesting about what he did is remember, just about 24 hours before, they were completely slandering Mr.

Pretty about who he was and the situation, you know, that he brought, essentially brought upon himself.

They've been trying to unwind that, recognizing that it's not a secret.

It is multiple freeze frames from various perspectives that show a man who is essentially detained and not aggressive being shot multiple times in the back.

As we've now learned, the department cannot have it both ways.

It cannot slander the victim and then say, well, we don't actually know.

Then when asked questions, we don't actually know what happened.

The investigation, as we now know, does not involve state and locals, at least the federal investigation, and

is so, I would say, worrisome that even a court has stepped in to tell the federal government.

You cannot essentially, you cannot tamper with evidence.

Okay, that's Juliette Kyem even talking about the court hearings that we're going to be hearing ahead today.