ByAlison Durkee,
Forbes Staff.
In trying to defend the killing of Alex Pretti on Saturday, Trump administration officials repeatedly tried to portray him as a violent domestic terrorist—even an “assassin”—running counter to emerging video evidence and first-person accounts of the deadly encounter.
Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse at a VA hospital, was shot at least 10 times by Border Patrol agents in Minnesota on Saturday, after he appeared to intervene in an altercation between ICE agents and other observers.
The Department of Homeland Security claimed after Pretti’s death he had “violently resisted” officers and that the incident “look[ed] like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.”
