"Border Patrol Commander-at-large Greg Bovino held a press conference on Sunday afternoon that quickly turned fiery when reporters started hitting him with several questions about the shooting death of Alex Pretti that happened a day earlier in Minneapolis. Bovino told the reporters Pretti assaulted Border Patrol officers before he was shot and killed, and he also mentioned several times that the choices he made increased the odds of a fatal confrontation happening. Both of those claims riled up some of the reporters and led to a few heated exchanges."
"Was Alex Pretti armed when he was shot? Bovino declined to answer, saying all those facts will come out in the investigation that is taking place. I'm not going to speculate, Bovino said. He then said Pretti was an assaultive subject who was assaulting officers and interfering with an operation to arrest a violent illegal immigrant."
"The reporter asked a follow up right after, If there's an investigation going on and you have not concluded, isn't it possible this was a bad shooting? Or have you already concluded for yourself that this was justified? I have not concluded anything, I have not given you a conclusion, Bovino said. So it's possible it was a bad shooting? The same reporter asked. What I do know is that this individual was on that scene several minutes before that shooting interfering with a lawful ,legal, ethical law enforcement operation, Bovino replied. Back to choices when someone makes the choice to come into an active law enforcement scene, interfere, obstruct, delay, or assault law enforcement officers That comment upset the reporter, who shouted back at Bovino: He didn't assault law enforcement! Bovino continued with his answer, and they bring a weapon to do that, that is a choice that that individual made."
A press conference about the shooting of Alex Pretti turned contentious as officials described Pretti as assaultive and interfering with an arrest of a violent undocumented immigrant. Reporters repeatedly asked whether Pretti was armed and whether the shooting was justified. Officials declined to speculate and emphasized that facts will emerge from the ongoing investigation while asserting that Pretti's choices increased the likelihood of a fatal outcome. Exchanges escalated into heated back-and-forths, with reporters loudly denying assault claims and challenging the assertion that the shooting was justified.
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