On Tuesday, the woman who recorded the tragic shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis revealed that federal authorities have yet to contact her about the incident.

Stella Carlson, known as the ‘pink coat lady’ and a children’s entertainer, broke her silence during an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper. She recounted the events she witnessed around 9 a.m. last Saturday.

Carlson expressed frustration that federal investigators have not approached her to hear her account of what transpired during the fatal shooting of the 37-year-old intensive care nurse.

“Their lack of communication suggests to me that they’re more concerned with self-preservation than uncovering the truth of the matter,” Carlson stated.

She further commented, “It seems they’re more interested in constructing a narrative that safeguards them and allows them to proceed without accountability.”

As a result, Carlson has lost confidence in the federal investigation into Pretti’s death.

‘I have faith in various representatives throughout our country who are trying to do the right thing and make sure justice [is served], I have faith in our local government in Minnesota, I think they are trying to make sure to protect us and investigate it thoroughly,’ she told Cooper.

‘But [the federal government] is trying to block that from happening,’ she claimed. ‘They wouldn’t even let the investigative team come to the crime scene.’

‘I mean, their goal is to protect themselves and to spin stories,’ she argued. 

Federal officials originally claimed Pretti was brandishing a weapon when Border Patrol agents fired at him up to 10 times.

But Carlson disputes this version of events, telling Cooper she witnessed Pretti trying to direct traffic and protect another woman amid an immigration raid in the city.

‘In the moment, I saw one of my community members in the street alone, directing traffic and nobody else was around,’ she said.

‘I was like “OK, Alex is filming these ICE agents and the traffic, I’m going to film him.” So I was his backup is how I felt about it in my risk assessment,’ Carlson said, noting that she did not know Pretti prior to the shooting.

She then went on to describe how Border Patrol agents started to go after Pretti after they knocked another woman to the ground, and he tried to help her back up.

‘Alex made that choice to be kind,’ Carlson said, adding that she thinks the agents at the scene viewed him as interfering.

‘Before you knew it, “pow, pow pow” and I saw Alex on the ground,’ she recounted. ‘I mean, I watched him die.’ 

She continued: ‘I remember him arching his back and his head rolling back – it was so fast moving, but not for me. 

‘I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,’ she continued, breaking down in tears as she talked. ‘And I knew that he was gone because I watched it,’ Carlson said. 

‘And then they came over 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 that they wanted to count the number of bullet holes, to see [what] they got, like he’s a deer.’

At that point, Carlson said she started to yell at the Border Patrol agents, asking: ‘Why would you jostle his body around like that?

‘But I knew he was gone,’ she said as she accused the agents of ‘playing’ with Pretti’s dead body ‘like they were in a video game.’

Carlson has previously shared what she experienced in a sworn affidavit for a lawsuit the American Civil Liberties Union brought against the Trump administration.

In the affidavit, Carlson wrote that she heard whistles outside her home as she got ready from work about 8.50am on Saturday, indicating Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were nearby.

‘I decided to check it out on my way to work. I’ve been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors,’ she said.

When she arrived, she told Cooper, she saw ‘the caravan of vehicles of ICE agents… were starting to kind of move in and block us in.’

Carlson nearly drove past Pretti but said she ‘thought of Renee Good in that moment, because as I looked forward, I saw somebody on the ground tackled by agents, I saw another vehicle coming the other direction trying to drive through getting tackled by agents and they were punching the windows.’

‘So at that moment, I was like “I need to not go forward,” and I looked at Alex, he looked at me and he pointed to the parking spot and I was like “Ok just park.”‘

Carlson also claims in her affidavit she saw the nurse with a phone in his hand filming the ICE agents when one of the agents pushed another protester to the ground.

‘Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over,’ she wrote.

‘The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.’

She wrote that Pretti tried to help the woman up but ‘the ICE agents just kept spraying’ so much that she could feel the pepper spray in her own eyes.

That is when, she said, it all went wrong. 

‘The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn’t see him touch any of them – he wasn’t even turned toward them,’ Carlson wrote.

‘It didn’t look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn’t see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground.

‘Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.

‘I don’t know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.’

The children’s entertainer insisted the DHS account of what supposedly happened – that Pretti threatened agents with a gun – was completely wrong.

‘The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground,’ she wrote.

Her account of what happened seems to be backed up by the footage she recorded, which showed multiple Department of Homeland Security agents surrounding Pretti, struggling to restrain his arms and legs as he is pushed face-down into the pavement.

As four agents remain engaged in the struggle, one officer, wearing a gray jacket and a pink rimmed baseball cap, appears to reach into the back waistband of Pretti’s pants and pull out a handgun. 

The officer then moves away from the group, holding the weapon.

Suddenly, another agent draws his firearm and fires directly into Pretti’s back, who then collapses onto the street. 

Agents are then seen backing away into the road as additional shots ring out. 

In total, roughly 10 shots appear to be fired, even as Pretti lies motionless.

A newly-filed government report that was sent to Congress on Tuesday now also claims that even though an officer shouted that Pretti had a gun on him, there was no indication that Pretti took it out.

Investigators from Customs and Border Patrol’s Office of Professional Responsibility conducted an analysis based on a review of body-worn camera footage and agency documentation.

Its report now says that CBP agents were faced with several protesters ‘yelling and blowing whistles’ at the officers, while also blocking the roadway at the intersection of 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis. 

After making ‘several verbal requests’ for the protesters to stop, CBP claims two women confronted the agents while blowing whistles. They were ordered to get out of the roadway but refused. 

They said that the women were then ‘pushed away’ and one of them ran to Pretti, with both again refusing to leave the roadways. 

The officer then deployed pepper spray at both of them, while attempting to arrest Pretti.

‘CBP personnel attempted to take Pretti into custody. Pretti resisted CBP personnel’s efforts and a struggle ensued,’ the report claims. 

‘During the struggle, a (Border Patrol agent) yelled, “He’s got a gun!” multiple times.’

The report continues: ‘Approximately five seconds later, a (Border Patrol agent) discharged his CBP-issued Glock 19 and a (Customs and Border Protection officer) also discharged his CBP-issued Glock 47 at Pretti.’ 

Within five seconds, one agent and one officer discharged the shots, with one using a Glock 19 and the other a Glock 47. 

An agent took possession of Pretti’s gun and cleared and secured it shortly after the shooting.