CNN’s Anderson Cooper speaks with Stella Carlson, the witness who captured crucial video showing exactly what happened when Alex Pretti was shot and killed by DHS officers:

“I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Like, what? What? And I knew he was gone, because I watched it. And then they come over to try to perform some type of medical aid by ripping his clothes open with scissors and then maneuvering his body around like a rag doll, only to discover that it could be because they wanted to count the bullet wounds to see how many they ‘got,’ like he’s a deer. I watched that and that is what it felt like they were doing and that is part of why I was like, ‘What are you guys doing? Why would you jostle his body around that? You’re not even doing anything to help him.’ But I knew he was gone.

“We understand why the MPD [Minneapolis Police Department] is unable to intervene on a level we would like, but you would like to think that their kindness, compassion, looking us in the eyes would occur in these moments when we are being attacked in the streets. And the MPD just felt like they were part of that team, at the moment… Once the yellow tape was up there were MPD officers who were standing in line — five of them, I think. And they wouldn’t look at us. Everyone kept saying, ‘Just look at us. You’re our representatives. You work for us. Why won’t you look at us? A part of our community just was murdered in the street, like you’re our Minneapolis Police Department. Why won’t you even just look at us? To give us solidarity.’

“You know when we walk around with whistles around our neck, it’s not that we have — we know we can’t do much. But what we do know is that we can let our community at large know when we are walking around, like I see you. And if you’re stuck in your apartment, I want you to see me. I’m another person walking around who is here to protect you as best I can, with my whistle and my phone, which really feels, not great.”