Stella Carlson saw federal Border Patrol agents shoot and kill Alex Pretti last Saturday in Minneapolis, and now she’s talking about what she witnessed, especially the horrific and disgraceful way some of the agents treated Pretti’s bleeding and lifeless body moments after he was murdered.
Speaking with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Carlson said she was filming the encounter between federal agents and Pretti.
“One of the things that’s shocking about the number of shots is that the last five shots or so are actually from a distance where he appears already lying on the ground, not moving. Do you remember that? Again, this is happening in seconds,” Cooper asked.
“I mean, honestly, Alex being shot is the most memorable part of it. The agents are not a part of that. I think, because I watched him die. I mean, I watched him die. I remember him arching his back and his head rolling back, and he looked. It was so fast moving and but not for me. Like when they left, when they fled, which now I see that after the shooting, they decided to just scatter and save themselves, watching him die,” Carlson said.
Cooper: “When the shots are fired, you begin to scream, what the eff did you just do? Do you remember that moment? Do you remember screaming that?”
“I remember the feeling inside my body. I mean, of course I wish I wasn’t saying that word so often, but at the same time, that’s how angry and, like, I don’t know if anger is the right mortified. That’s just how mortified I have been feeling. And helpless. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, like what? What? And I knew he was gone because I watched it and then they come over to try to perform some type of medical aid by ripping his clothes open with scissors, and then maneuvering his body around like a rag doll, only to discover that it could be because they wanted to count the bullet wounds to see how many they got, like he’s a deer.”
“I watched that, and that is what it felt like they were doing and that is part of why I was like, what are you guys doing? Why would you jostle his body around like that? You’re not even doing anything to help him. But I knew he was gone.”
Cooper: “You knew he was gone then?”
Carlson: “I knew he was gone. There was no way with the way his body was moving and I only knew that because of the way they were manipulating his dead body, just playing with it. Like they’re in a video game. They were looking at us and laughing.”
Counting bullet holes and laughing at witnesses. Every single one of those agents should be fired and charged with crimes against humanity. If they aren’t, the United States is doomed.
You can watch the full interview with Stella Carlson by clicking THIS LINK.
