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Senior border control officials have Blame Democrats and journalists for chaos in Minneapolis after federal agents shot and killed two protesters, but sidestepped questions about whether the agency was responsible for the tragedies.
it appears after Alex Pretty was killed while helping a protester on Saturday. Video shot from multiple angles shows the 37-year-old ICU nurse being sprayed in the face with mace, thrown to the ground by police, then beaten and eventually shot multiple times.
“When politicians, community leaders and some journalists make the kind of heated rhetoric that we’ve been talking about, when they make choices,” Border Patrol Commander-in-Chief Greg Bovino said at a news conference in Minneapolis on Sunday. Defaming law enforcement and calling law enforcement the Gestapo Or to use the term abduction, it is a choice that leads to their actions and consequences from those choices.
“When someone chooses to listen to a politician or a so-called journalist or a community leader, slander law enforcement or anything else… I think we saw that yesterday, there are consequences and actions.”
The government accuses Pretty of wanting to “assassinate” federal agents, although the video shows he did not draw his weapon at any point. Preity was armed and had a concealed carry permit. Less than three weeks ago, 37-year-old poet Renee Nicole Good was also shot and killed by ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who told him, “I’m not mad at you, man.”
Appearing to be referring to both incidents, Bovino continued: “These actions and choices clearly have tragic consequences, bad outcomes, outcomes that law enforcement never wants to see.
“Law enforcement never wants to see bad consequences result from poor choices.”
However, when asked whether he or the Department of Homeland Security intended to take any responsibility for the fatal shooting, Bovino dodged the question, describing Pretty and Goode as “suspects” who “assaulted, delayed, obstructed or threatened the lives of law enforcement officers.”
“It goes back to the choices we just talked about, when individuals make bad choices, bad decisions, enter into law enforcement situations, active law enforcement situations conspire to enter into situations like this,” he said.
Asked whether Preti was unarmed when he was shot — as video appears to show one agent removing his weapon before another agent fired his weapon — Bovino said: “The investigation will reveal all of these facts.”
independent U.S. Customs and Border Patrol has been contacted for comment on Bovino’s remarks.
Meanwhile, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz criticized the administration’s handling of the situation during his own press conference.
“You hear the most powerful man in the country… defiled [Pretti’s] “It was named within minutes of the incident, then the crime scene was closed, evidence was removed, court orders were ignored and no one was allowed to view it,” Walz said.
“This is not the two sides we need to see. This is basic human decency. This family has been through enough. To have the most powerful man in the world drag their dead son with absolutely no evidence and set an entire country on fire. That’s enough.”
“We are no longer having a political debate. We are having a moral debate,” he said.
On Sunday afternoon, President Donald Trump posted a long message on social media calling on Walz and other Democratic leaders in Minnesota to cooperate with ICE. He also called for legislation to end sanctuary cities, where local authorities limit cooperation with immigration authorities.
Earlier, his first term as president, Barack Obama, addressed recent killings by federal agents, saying “many of our core values as a country are increasingly under attack,” saying shooting “A wake-up call for every American.”
he wrote: “Federal law enforcement and immigration agencies have a difficult job. But Americans expect them to carry out their duties in a lawful, responsible manner and to work with, rather than against, state and local officials to ensure public safety.
“That’s not what we’re seeing in Minnesota. In fact, we’re seeing the exact opposite. For weeks, people across the country have been outraged that masked ICE recruits and other federal agents were operating with impunity, engaging in tactics that seemed designed to intimidate, harass, provoke and endanger residents of major American cities.
“This has to stop.”
Later, another former Democratic president, Bill Clinton, called the shooting “unacceptable,” saying: “We only have a few moments in our lives when the decisions we make and the actions we take shape our history for years to come. This is one of them.”
“Worse, those in charge lied to us every time, told us not to believe what we saw with our own eyes, and pursued increasingly aggressive and confrontational tactics, including obstructing local authorities’ investigations,” he wrote.