Rant on!!!! Look, from what I can tell from the videos I’ve watched, this is at the very least a negligence issue. It appears one fed took the gun out of Pretti’s holster, someone says, “gun gun gun,” a round goes off (possible ND of Pretti’s gun by the guy who took it off him, or someone else) and folks just started laying down lead. Not the first time something like that has happened, won’t be the last. That being said, it wasn’t a good shoot, so someone has to take the hit. If I had to imagine the group of feds involved are in the hot seat, and in order to deescalate, my guy has to leave the area. Does this mean we pull all of them out? Hell no! We go back at Tampon Tim even harder and tell him, “you want us gone? Get rid of this sanctuary state bullshit and work with us and we will!” He won’t agree, so then Trump goes Insurrection Clause and shuts the entire thing down, arrests Walz, the LtGov, and that azzhat Ellison. Federalize the Guard so they don’t have to serve coffee and pastries to the rioters, and really start knocking heads!!! Be bold, be quick, be done with this mess within two weeks. Clean ‘em out. Every illegal man, woman and child. Get ‘em gone. Then cut my friggin’ taxes by 75%!!! Rant off... Whew!
I've heard otherwise.
There's also that fact that, in the video I saw, it looked very much like Pretti was reaching toward the empty holster when the firing started. He may not have known the gun was gone, but his arm definitely goes around behind him toward that holster as he's rising up on his knees.