Close to 1,000 people — many medical professionals in New York — gathered outside Manhattan’s VA Hospital on Thursday night to honor the life of Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis ICU nurse shot dead by ICE agents last week.
The big crowd outside New York Harbor Health Care on East 23rd Street not only condemned Pretti’s death — one that sparked outrage across the country — but also honored the way Pretti lived. The slain nurse worked at a VA hospital himself, and had come to the aid of a fallen protester moments before he was gunned down.
