In the end, I don’t think who he was or what he was like in general matters a great deal. I think what matters is that he was resisting violently, someone yelled “GUN GUN GUN!!” and Pretti rose up and reached behind him where that holster was. The agents who shot, and Pretti himself, apparently didn’t realize the other agent had already taken the gun, or that it went off in his hand. They saw Pretti reach, they heard the warning, they heard a shot, and they opened fire. It’s an unfortunate sequence of events, but I don’t think they reacted unreasonably.
“In the end, I don’t think who he was or what he was like in general matters a great deal.”
It was interesting how Pretti was portrayed by the leftists as just a nurse who worked at a V. A. hospital, who was murdered by I. C. E. Almost like he was wearing surgical scrubs, with a first aid kit on his hip (similar to Kyle Rittenhouse) and a stethoscope around his neck, clearly identifying him as a medical personnel.
But the truth is that the I. C. E. agents only knew this person as an aggressive agitator, doing what he shouldn’t have been doing, with a loaded firearm on belt instead of the first aid kit. And, apparently, they found that this wasn’t his first riot and that the firearm he was reported to have been carrying legally, because he had a concealed carry permit, was in fact not being carried legally because he had neither the permit nor government issued picture ID on him as required by Minnesota law when carrying concealed.
Just an “innocent nurse” . . .
You’ve summarized well what I’ve been thinking about the shooting.
And I hope they look into the atmosphere where this happened. Walz, Frey, and the media are 100% responsible for the atmosphere of hate that put the officers on edge and created a volatile situation.