Alex Pretti's parents demand DOJ release evidence of fatal ICE shooting

🗞️ Story file #1046

Alex Pretti's parents demand DOJ release evidence of fatal ICE shooting

Oct 27, 8 PM ET to Oct 28, 6 AM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

12outlets carried it
🫏10 · 1 · 0🐘left · center · right
10 hourson the front pages
12front pages at once, at its peak
4 minof TV captions
22people retold it online

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 27, 8 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Guardian
Oct 27, 11 PM ETfirst on TV: MSNOW
Oct 28, 1 AM ETpeak: on 12 front pages
Oct 28, 5 AM ETretold online by 22 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 27, 8 PM to Oct 28, 6 AM ET (peak 12), by the outlets' lean: left · center · not rated

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

💬 quoted: “Ignored Us, Misled Us,” “Shameful” “shielding Alex's killers” “We are begging” “We will no longer stay silent”

✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

HuffPost (2 wordings): “Alex Pretti’s Parents Seek Accountability For Son’s Killing During Protest” → “Alex Pretti’s Parents: Trump Admin ‘Ignored Us, Misled Us,’ Shielded Our Son’s Killers”
The Washington Post (2 wordings): “DOJ not handing over all evidence in Alex Pretti shooting, family says” → “Alex Pretti’s parents call on federal government to share evidence in his killing”

Every outlet's first headline (12), left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost Alex Pretti’s Parents Seek Accountability For Son’s Killing During Protest Oct 28, 1 AM ET
MSNBC ‘We are begging’: Pretti family accuses feds of ‘shielding Alex’s killers’ Oct 27, 11 PM ET
The Daily Kos Alex Pretti’s family demands accountability from ICE Oct 27, 5 PM ET
The Guardian ‘Shameful’: parents of Alex Pretti accuse Trump officials of shielding son’s killers Oct 27, 8 PM ET
ABC News Alex Pretti's parents seek answers from DOJ months after son's killing Oct 27, 10 PM ET
CNN Alex Pretti’s family says feds are still stonewalling efforts for justice Oct 27, 1 PM ET
NBC News Alex Pretti’s parents demand DOJ release evidence of fatal ICE shooting Oct 27, 4 PM ET
Star Tribune Alex Pretti’s parents say Justice Department is protecting agents who killed him Oct 27, 5 PM ET
The Washington Post DOJ not handing over all evidence in Alex Pretti shooting, family says Oct 27, 10 PM ET
Yahoo News 'We will no longer stay silent': Alex Pretti's parents accuse DOJ of shielding agents Oct 27, 5 PM ET
Reuters Parents of Alex Pretti slam Trump administration for withholding evidence into his killing Oct 27, 6 PM ET
Crooks and Liars Alex Pretti’s Father Blasts Trump Admin Cover Up Of Son’s Killing Oct 27, 8 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN3 min

MSNOW2 min

PRETTI FAMILY: FEDS STILL STONEWALLING EFFORTS FOR JUSTICE CNN, 2 min
PARENTS OF ALEX PRETTI SPEAK OUT FOR THE FIRST TIME MSNOW, 2 min
MOTHER ACCUSES GOVT OF "CRUEL" AND "UNCONSCIONABLE" CONDUCT CNN, 54 s

what people online made of it

🧶 Retold online

The federal government is shielding the immigration enforcement officers involved in the killing of Alex Pretti. Oct 28: told by 13 people
The U.S. military is killing people on suspected drug boats instead of arresting and charging them. Oct 28: told by 9 people (same issue)

On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.

🗣️ names in it: Alex Pretti Trump administration Justice Department ICE Parents of Alex Pretti

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.