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Chicagoans Honor Nurse Alex Pretti

A memorial for Alex Pretti outside of the Jesse Brown VA Hospital in Chicago includes flowers, candles, and a photo of Pretti in scrubs.

Thousands of Chicagoans marched across the city this past weekend, after federal agents in Minneapolis fatally shot 37-year-old Alex Pretti. Pretti was an intensive care unit (ICU) nurse at the veterans hospital in Minneapolis. A growing memorial to Pretti now stands outside the Jesse Brown VA in Chicago. Flowers, candles, and messages surround a photograph […]