For Pretti’s family, the stakes are even more personal. They describe a gentle ICU nurse whose final act was to shield a woman on the ground, not threaten officers. Their demand is simple but searing: look at the video, listen to who he was, and refuse to accept a story that doesn’t match the evidence. As inquiries unfold, their grief has become a moral summons—pressing the country to decide whose version of events, and whose humanity, it is willing to believe.
