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Bovino, Noem Say Pretti Approached ICE With Handgun
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0:46Now PlayingA Border Patrol agent shot and killed a man believed to be a US citizen, identified as Alex Pretti, in Minneapolis on Saturday.
President Donald Trump backed the federal officials and accused Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey of “inciting Insurrection” with their rhetoric.
Walz and Frey dismissed the federal officials’ accounts of the shooting, with Walz saying “it is nonsense, people” and Frey describing a video of the incident as showing masked agents pummeling and shooting Pretti.
Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol commander-at-large, said the man approached Border Patrol officers with a 9mm semiautomatic handgun and “violently resisted” attempts to disarm him. Neither he nor other federal officials said he brandished the weapon.
“Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, an agent fired defensive shots,” he said in a statement.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem echoed Bovino’s remarks in a news conference at FEMA ahead of a winter storm and claimed, without presenting evidence, that Pretti had impeded the work of the Border Patrol and was a “domestic terrorist.”
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