Name: New video shows previous clash between Pretti and federal agents
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He's the man shot and killed by federal agents over the weekend.

But this video is from another encounter that was more than a week before he was gunned down.

The video was first posted by the news movement and appears to show Preddy wearing the brown jacket and hat, kicking out the taillight of an suv.

Agents then get out of their car and tackle him to the ground.

The encounter lasts a few seconds before Preddy is let go.

At one point, a gun is seen in his waistband, but it's unclear if agents saw it.

Agents then deploy tear gas and walk away.

In another video, we hear from Preddy moments after agents leave.

So the Department of Homeland Security says it is reviewing this footage.

President Trump hasn't commented on it publicly, but he has been reposting the commentary from social media.

So, for example, comments like this from his supporters which say that Preddy, quote, such a peaceful protester and he was a domestic terrorist.

The mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Fry, said he hadn't seen the new video during CNN's town hall, but

Are we actually making the argument that Alex Preddy should be killed for something that happened like, 11 days prior to the shooting itself?

I think we should be talking about the circumstances that actually led to the killing and what took place and those circumstances.

I mean, you can believe your own two eyes.

Joining me now in the group chat, Zolan Kano Young's CNN political analyst and White House correspondent for the New York Times, Doug Hai, Republican strategist and former RNC communications director.

And Megan Hayes, former Biden White House director of message planning.

Okay, I want to talk to you guys, because this video coming out sort of created more fuel for the people who say that Preddy was an agitator, that he was putting himself in harm's way.

Can I come to you, Doug, just for the messaging, because the White House is, as we've sort of struggled the last couple of days.

What do you think they're going to be doing with this video?

It is agitating and it is putting yourself in harm's way.

And ultimately, that shouldn't matter for what happens 11 days earlier.

But everything in our discourse is so weaponized, has been for a long time.

So I think if we go back to the Rodney King beating after that, we heard, well, Rodney King did this, and

it turned out Six months later, Rodney King did that.

None of that had any real relevance to the actions that police did on a highway in Los Angeles.

But in our political discourse, we know this is going to be used.

And as we talk about de escalation, I would hope that everybody can de escalate a little bit.

We're going to talk about that separately.

I want to play this clip of Steve Bannon on Wednesday just because he's the kind of person who is very loud from the sidelines, right through the war room and trying to tell the White House, look, this is what you should be doing at any given time.

You don't need to bring down the temperature, raise the temperature, put them under pressure.

I think that that's inflammatory and disgusting.

And I don't know what his reasoning is for saying that it might be because he wants Christine to him out and if they keep raising the temperature, she'll inevitably say something stupid again and maybe lose her job this time.

But I do think that what he did 11 days prior to being killed doesn't change the fact that he was still murdered.

If you want to surface that video and he's still alive and charge him with something retroactively, that would be a different conversation.

But you can't do that because the man is no longer living.

It's kind of a silly conversation to have.

It just shows again how long this has been going on and how people are just so enraged and it just keeps going.

And so this is what's going to continue to happen.

You're going to have people continue to go to the streets over and over and over again.

But something that happened two weeks prior should tell us that this has been going on too long.

And it also doesn't explain why the administration, administration officials said that he was brandishing a gun in the moments before he was shot as well.

There's core questions as far as this shooting.

Why did you say he was brandishing a gun?

You were so quick to also use the term domestic terrorism as well.

Assassin video 11 days prior doesn't answer those questions, nor does it provide clarity on why the administration in the investigation they're doing is not examining criminal wrongdoing for these agents as well?

Especially because there you have an example of ICE agents not circling someone and ending up shooting them.

Like arguably, you see him taking an action and you don't see them reacting the way we saw in the moment to his death.

I got an email two days ago from a very conservative, very senior Republican member of Congress who said, what should I say?

This is somebody who is a very big Trump.

I reached out to one of the party committees yesterday and said, what are you telling your candidates?.1 message of unity, calm order.

We had a CNN hall, town hall in Minnesota.

There was a Republican lawmaker there, State Senator Michael Holmstrom, and

he was to talk about the way the President has handled this moment.

I want you to hear not just what he says, but

how the crowd reacts after President Trump met with these leaders and he came out and he said great things about them.

If you read his post, he was very complimentary and it was, it was repudiated with more insults from the leaders.

Here in Minnesota, the olive branch is constantly extended and it's swatted away because of anger and resentment, laughter.

I think that's the problem that Republicans are going to face going into the midterms is what they keep saying, don't believe your lying eyes.

It's like they're in this little bubble that they are the only ones that believe what's going on outside of it.

But the voters are going to have the final say.

You hear people just blatantly just laughing at this guy, which is not normal in those town halls.

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