Mobile phone footage demonstrates that Mr Pretti, like Ms Good, represented no threat. Contrary to scurrilous claims by senior members of the Trump administration, he was holding a phone, not a gun, before he was overpowered. His killing, which occurred after he attempted to assist a fellow protester who was being manhandled, amounted to a summary street execution by security forces. As anger erupted across Minneapolis, federal officers then reportedly prevented state investigators from accessing the scene of the shooting.