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A (0:03)
And welcome to GPS the Globe Global Public Square. I'm Anderson Cooper in Minneapolis, Minnesota. If you're expecting to see Fareed Zakaria, you will throughout much of this hour. He's got some great interviews in Davos, Switzerland that we're going to bring you. But we do want to bring you up to date on what is happening here in Minneapolis. I'm not far from the scene where Alex Pretty, 37 year old ICU nurse, was shot multiple times, 10 shots fired that we know about from the multiple videotapes that were taken yesterday. He was killed on the scene not far from where I am. At least two federal law enforcement agents fired shots at Alex Pretti. It's believed he died on the scene. There is, according to federal officials. They say they are investigating what occurred. State investigators, state officials who would normally be involved in an investigation like this, any kind of police involved shooting in this state. They were denied access to the scene of the killing yesterday. They say that they had a signed search warrant by a judge allowing them access to be part of and to start their own investigation on the scene. The federal law enforcement on the scene denied them access. When the federal law enforcement left, they were at the scene briefly. Then community members, protesters came and kind of took over the site. We saw hundreds of protesters, community members who came out last night at the very location where Alex Pretti was killed, wanting to express their sadness, express their anger and their disgust at what has happened here. Not just with Alex Pretti, but obviously what we have seen over the last several weeks and their concerns about any kind of investigation that may or may not be done. The statements made immediately after the killing of Alex Pretti by the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, by a top border official, Greg Bevino. They do seem to be at odds with what we have now seen in multiple videos from the scene. What we have not yet seen any video of. And it's not clear exactly where the camera that Alex Pretty had that he was holding up. Federal officials had kind of indicated that he would. He was, he was armed and was carrying a weapon. Confronting law enforcement officials. That is certainly not the case. According to multiple videos, he was carrying a camera. We have not seen any video from his camera, which would be an important vantage point. We believe that is now in the hands of federal officials who say they are investigating. There's a lot to get to. The videotape is crucial, the multiple videotapes. I want to bring in our chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst John Miller to kind of walk us through the Multiple videos and what we are seeing. John, let's just start with your latest thoughts on what you've seen in these videos and kind of walk us through them.
B (3:10)
Well, it's important to have the videos. It's important to have the videos from multiple angles, as we learned again during the last shooting involving DS8 agents with Renee Goode. But there are a couple of critical moments that don't necessarily answer questions with certainty, but certainly raise the important ones. So let's go to the first video. There is Alex Preddy. He's dressed in the brown with the black hat. He's videotaping with his phone in the street, directing traffic a little bit. And in a moment, you're going to see him advance down the street because a female who is standing in the street is encountered by an ICE agent. And Preddy kind of gets in the middle of this to separate them. And the agent shoves her onto the snow, then sprays Preddy with a pepper spray directly and decides he's going to take him down. He's trying to pull the woman who he was trying to get in between. He's trying to pull her away. Now he's on the ground surrounded by agents. This is where the critical moments come up. There's no indication at this point that they know he has a gun. And at this moment, you see this agent right here. He draws his weapon, points it downward and goes back into the scrum. Just a few seconds later, not even a few. A second later, you hear the shot. This is one of those things where we need to know, what did he see? What caused that moment where he drew his weapon? Did he see the weapon from Alex Preddy? There's another moment which is on the other side of this video. We see an agent on the other side appearing to come out of that scrum. Anderson, holding a weapon pointed down as if he has picked it up. Now, there is a strong suggestion that that was Alex Preddy's weapon, that they had either taken off him or wrestled away from him. We don't know coming out of that scene. But the important point is that gun is removed from the scrum before the shots are fired. It would not be uncommon in that kind of confusion for the agents in that struggle not to know that one of them had removed the weapon and believe he was still armed. But these are all the questions that would be answered in a thorough, extensive investigation, the kind that the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has a special unit that is especially dedicated to and has a lot of experience in. Those are the people who have been so far barred from the case. And it's also the kind that the FBI shooting team from the inspections division would have a lot of experience in. But really right now, from the Department of Justice, from Homeland Security, we don't have any firm direction as to whether or not there's a criminal investigation, whether or not it's into the shooting, who's collecting that evidence, who has that evidence and how it's being handled.