There was nothing to indicate he intended to use his weapon. While he was disarmed of the sig 320....
he had been resisting officers, and reached for his back.
Since he had not been searched for other weapons, the officers could not know if he was reaching for another weapon to attack the officers and would have had to shoot to defend themselves.
First office trying to remove holstered gun
Balaclava officer notices and pulls his gun out just before first officer removes gun
officer with p320 turns away with gun, while balaclava moves behind pretti and the accidential discharge goes off
note balaclava agent doesn't shoot immediately after the first shot goes off. officers not directly engaged start backing off. the two agents in front of pretti are still trying to control his arms
pretti gets his right arm free, and is reaching behind his back for something. nobody clearly sees or knows what he is reaching for
you're an agent who knows a firearm was removed from pretti. he still has not been searched for other weapons, but he's reaching for something behind his back.
balaclava agent fires first the first of 3 shots, because pretti is still struggling and has right arm behind his back.
"pretti gets his right arm free, and is reaching behind his back for something. nobody clearly sees or knows what he is reaching for"Pretti dumb FAFOund out the hard way.
'ACAB! you baestards .. imma draw bad ... uh oh muh Sig is gone.'
"Mine's not." *BLAM*
- Pretti scrubbed ALL of his social media before going downtown
- Pretti was active in a encrypted network Minnesota Signal group used by protesters to track and target ICE "abductors"; this is the same group that the Lt. Goobernor "Flan Southside", and Nutsy Notso Good belonged to.
- Pretti learns through Signal that ICE is interdicting a illegal mojado with supra-violent criminal history
- Pretti had divorced his wife 2 years earlier -- waited until mid-30s to get married, then split after just 1.5 years of marriage wtf -- and had deliberately not spoken a word to her since then; oh, and his favorite dog passed away last year
- In his last text message with his parents, they were concerned enough to tell him directly: "Do not engage."
- He went there to suicide-by-cop: shows up with a scoped, semi-auto Sig-Sauer 9mm and 2 extended mags worth 60 rounds
- With the gun in his waistband, waited, picked his spot, then all-in to insert himself directly toe-to-toe against an agent that had just cake-sprayed two morons
- Had the opportunity then and there to declare he was carrying a firearm
- Got cake-sprayed himself, resisted arrest while reaching for his Sig-Sauer, agent gets his hand on the gun with Pretti, gun goes off, Big Al gets what he has coming
- Earlier video shows Pretti spitting at Federal law enforcement in the middle of an intersection, kicking out the back light of an ICE SUV, and getting taken down in a remarkable FAFOreshadowing of what he had coming to him
- Don't be surprised if his union losing two cases (in a beatdown) at the beginning of TrumpII challenging TrumpII's EO which ended collective bargaining -- which, for Antifwad, which would have put him permanently off steward time and back on the actual nurse job -- triggered the snowflake and caused a mental break, which dovetails precisely with the family telling him "do not engage".