One key contrast between Alex Pretti and Kristi Noem explains this terrible moment

Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse at a VA hospital. He took care of our nation’s veterans, people who served, suffered, and came home needing help. It’s hard to imagine something more noble.

Nurses are helpers. When something is wrong, they move toward it. That instinct, that humanity, is likely what compelled Pretti to act when he saw a woman dragged to the ground by federal agents in Minneapolis.

From the videos, it is painfully clear he was not charging officers with a weapon. He was not there to commit violence.