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One called it murder. Some need more information. How policing experts see the Pretti shooting.
www.nbcnews.com

... The Border Patrol's killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis has revived concerns about whether immigration enforcement officers are properly trained to deal with protesters.

In Alex Pretti's final moments, he was down on all fours on a frigid Minneapolis street, with multiple federal agents on top of him.

One agent emerged from the scrum with a gun taken from Pretti's holster, a bystander's video shows. An instant later, another agent opened fire at point-blank range.

Then more shots were fired, leaving Pretti motionless on the sidewalk.

Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse, was soon pronounced dead.

Some policing experts said the shooting appeared unjustified and one said it amounted to murder. Others said they could not form a judgment until they knew more, particularly what threat the agent who fired thought he faced at that moment.

The killing of Pretti, the second fatal shooting by a federal officer in Minneapolis this month, has also revived concerns about whether immigration enforcement officers are properly trained to deal with protesters.

"This video raises a lot of questions," said Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, a Washington, D.C.-based organization of current and former law enforcement officials focused on improving policing.

"What happened that made these agents feel threatened? That should be the question that everyone is trying to get to the bottom of."

Whether the killing will be the subject of a thorough investigation remains an open question.

Multiple Trump administration officials have already defended the actions of the Border Patrol agent who opened fire, in some cases making claims that run counter to videos of the confrontation. ...


Was it a negligent discharge.

Nonsense.

As I posted elsewhere, there's closeup video showing the ICE officer shooting him in the back after he saw that the gun had been taken away:
Just watched this analysis of the shooting, including
some video I hadn't seen before.

Male nurse had no gun in his hands, and didn't draw his gun.

The agent shot him after he saw that the gun had been taken away, as it probably didn't even register with him that the guy was now disarmed even though he was looking right at it.

This is why there are protests, Bill Johnson:

www.rawstory.com

Exposed: Probe finds ICE wrongly detained staggering 2,300 people in just 6 months
Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams
January 26, 2026 12:14PM ET

#528 Flag: The coward boaz is back to whine, whimper, whine and cry

#2 A most poignant point. Yav:

"It makes me ill that our nation murdered him, in cold blood, in the middle of him showing compassion for another human that was being victimized by out of control goons."

But don't expect any compassion from this list of liars and cowards, Yav.

Like empathy, they are completely lacking in that beautiful, human attribute, compassion.

"In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trails 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy." " this quote, taken from Captain G. M. Gilbert, reflects his insights after the Nuremberg Trials.

Like it or not, this is starting to look less like a protest and more like a war zone.

When people aren't just chanting, but actively interfering with arrests, blowing whistles to warn targets, swarming agents, and escalating every encounter, it stops being "free speech" and becomes street conflict.

And once that dynamic takes over, it's only a matter of time before someone gets killed. Not that it's "inevitable," but because chaos plus adrenaline plus weapons always ends the same way.

Instigators don't get to pretend they're innocent when they're deliberately turning every enforcement action into a confrontation.

I don't accept the idea that agents are "out of control" when shots are fired. These are trained professionals operating in a high stakes environment, and when they use force, it's because their training tells them they're dealing with a lethal situation. We may not like the outcome, but this isn't random panic. It's what happens when you mix a volatile crowd, armed resistance and nobody backs down. These agents are trained to kill. It's part of their job description if and when it's needed. I'm not endorsing violence, but like I said, this is becoming a war zone.

The way it went down, it looks like they weren't trying to send him to the hospital. Whatever their intent, they wanted him dead, not wounded

This is exactly how a city spirals. Crowds get bolder, law enforcement gets jumpier, and the gap between "order" and "violence" disappears.

If people really want to prevent more deaths, the answer isn't more hysteria. It's de-escalation and discipline and consequences for anyone who crosses the line into obstruction or violence.

Dips*&^.

The upper ceiling of supposed migrants in the "invasion" is 12 million people (which is entirely unsupported, BTW).

That's, at most, about 3.5% of the total populace.

Spread across the states.

www.thirdway.org

Stay in your lane, junior. Pathogens and truckers' dongs are your areas of expertise. When you swerve outside of those two lanes you end up looking like an idiot.

#75 | Posted by BellRinger

STFU you f*&^ing moron.

He's no more eager to escalate than all of the people coming out to "peacefully" protest.

Liberals can't see the forest for the trees. But, all both sides see is their ideology and are incapable of seeing anything else. The truth is this, regardless of how much you want to try to infect the situation with your own ideological bs.

Cons see illegals causing problems. A small portion of them are raping, murdering, abusing their time in the US, etc. Cons do not support this, liberals do. So then cons exaggerate the problem so they can send ICE. So then ICE comes in, makes people mad because they don't agree they should be there, so they start protesting. As is typical with protests, a small portion of protestors become problems and start getting violent or otherwise not peaceful with ICE, causing ICE to have to respond with violence. Liberals do not support this, cons do. This is the stupid cycle we are stuck in. All because a small portion on both sides think their ideology is better than anyone else's and feel they should take action in a way that is NOT becoming of our Constitution or any civilized society.

Just like with the LA riots and liberals claiming there aren't any riots and Trump is exaggerating, the actual problems in MN are nowhere near the levels of exaggeration libs are claiming. In the end, all that is happening is that libs accept the tiny fraction of crimes that illegals do and cons accept the tiny fraction of crimes ICE is doing. So both ideologies are fighting the exact same thing, the only difference is who is carrying out the crimes. Either Americans become victims of illegals or they become victims of ICE.

Again, you can ignore that all you want but that's the reality we are in. Like I've been saying for years, NEITHER side is fighting to fix problems. All they are doing is fighting to ensure their acceptance of the negatives of their ideology can exist without the other side's nonacceptance of the negatives. Both sides just completely ignore the negatives. Where is the lib outrage when an illegal murders, rapes, etc. an American (it IS happening and denying it at this point is just ignoring reality)? And, where is the con outrage when an American authority murders, beats, etc. a person who did nothing to warrant it (it is happening and denying it at this point is just ignoring reality)?

I'm so sick of both sides and their hypocrisy and fabricated, ideological outrage. There is one solution to this problem that fixes both issues, and that is to continue to try to stop illegal immigration as much as possible. If there were no illegals, ICE wouldn't be in MN. If ICE weren't there, protestors wouldn't be getting impacted like this.

The other part of this broken record is how libs absolutely, beyond any evidence thrown at them REFUSE vehemently like their lives depended on it that the protestors are all perfect little angels who do no wrong. And, since libs like history so much about how America is systemically racist, then they also have to accept the reality that shows when people group up in masses to fight against something, "peaceful" is hardly the word that can be used. After 250 years of history, protests en masse are anything but peaceful in America.

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