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Damning new video shows Alex Pretti running at ICE agents and screaming in their faces before...

• https://www.dailymail.co, By STEPHEN M. LEPORE

Alex Pretti taunted ICE agents for carrying pepper spray while daring them to 'soak me, motherf***er' just 11 days before the ICU nurse was fatally shot, footage shows.

It comes just hours after Pretti's family confirmed he was the 37-year-old man spitting at a federal agent's vehicle before smashing the taillight in another clip from the same day.

The new video shows Pretti shouting 'f*** you!' at the agents, before yelling: 'What the f*** is wrong with you? Every decision you've made in your life is f***ing wrong!'  

He also refers to one of the agents as a 'pepper spray b****' and 'f***ing trash' as they get into their SUVs to leave the premises. 

Pretti then yelled: 'F***ing soak me, motherf***er!'

The sound of shattered plastic can then be heard in the footage as the SUV turns away and the damaged taillight is visible. 

An agent leaps from the back door as Pretti holds up a middle finger and yells 'f*** you.'

Multiple agents then converge on Pretti and attack him as shocked bystanders scream in the background. 

In the first clip posted on Wednesday, Pretti's hat comes off, and the top of his head matches the receding hairline displayed in the video from Saturday that showed his fatal confrontation with Border Patrol officers.

Surrounding officers then fired tear gas and pepper balls into the crowd while agents released Pretti from their grip and set him free. 

Shortly after, the agents begin to disperse. Pretti, who appeared to have a gun in his waistband as he did the day of the shooting, then picked up his belongings that came off in the scuffle and walked away.

The Daily Mail spoke to Max Shapiro, a Minneapolis tax attorney who filmed the original clip, about what he saw that day.

Shapiro's son attends daycare not far from where he filmed and participates in a group Signal chat of parents who have been 'patrolling the corners near the entrances' for ICE agents.