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"Video recorded by witnesses to the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by federal
agents in Minneapolis on Saturday shows that the 37-year-old registered nurse
was holding a phone, not a gun, when he was tackled and shot, directly
contradicting the claims of senior Trump administration officials that he
threatened to “massacre” officers.
In the aftermath of the killing, which was recorded by multiple witnesses, the
Department of Homeland Security released an image of a handgun, which Donald
Trump referred to as “the gunman’s gun” in a social media post. Kristi Noem,
the DHS secretary, said at a briefing that Pretti had “approached US border
patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun”, though she later declined
to say whether or not Pretti pulled the gun out.
Greg Bovino, a senior border patrol commander who was reprimanded by a federal
judge last year for lying, also told reporters that Pretti had approached
border patrol agents with the same gun.
“The agents attempted to disarm the individual, but he violently resisted.
Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, a border
patrol agent fired defensive shots,” Bovino said. “This looks like a situation
where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.”
That account is directly contradicted by video evidence of the incident
reviewed by the
Guardian."
Resist,
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
