At least four different times, in less than a minute, Alex Pretti was guilty of assault. The penalty under 18 USC 111 for “simple assault” against a federal agent is up to a year in jail. Finally, a key point of simple assault is it does not require any physical contact between the suspect and agent. The PR fallout of the second Pretti video is a game-changer, because it recontextualizes the core arguments of the left. If Alex Pretti was a kindhearted, hardworking, morally upstanding ICU nurse with dashing good looks, more Americans would be moved by his tragic demise.