Overview
- Ackman’s $10,000 gift appears on the GoFundMe for Alex Pretti’s family, which raised over $1 million by Monday, according to Reuters and the campaign page.
- Pershing Square declined to comment to Reuters after the Wall Street Journal reported Ackman’s donation, which followed Pretti’s fatal shooting by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis.
- The billionaire had earlier given $10,000 to a legal-defense fundraiser for ICE officer Jonathan Ross, saying his support reflected a commitment to due process rather than a political statement.
- Ackman made the Pretti donation after a public prompt from gun-safety advocate Shannon Watts and posted that he did not agree with labeling Pretti an “American hero” but called the death tragic.
- The White House told the Wall Street Journal it is reviewing the case as widely shared footage has undercut early official accounts of the shootings in Minneapolis.