"Spokespeople screeched about how journalists, opposition politicians and the American public needed to withhold judgement until facts and analysis arrived, and then simultaneously sought to pin the entire incident upon the victim while waiting for none of the same evidence to be available. Roughly an hour or two after Pretti had been slain by Border Patrol agents working in tandem with ICE,"
"Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem had already labeled Pretti a "domestic terrorist" who "violent resisted arrest," while Border Patrol czar Gregory Bovino claimed "This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement." Noted wait-for-the-facts-to-form-an-opinion proponent Stephen Miller made an exception to that rule by proclaiming that Pretti was "an assassin" who "tried to murder federal agents.""
Immediately after the fatal shooting of Minneapolis ICU nurse Alex Pretti, Trump administration spokespeople urged withholding judgment while simultaneously blaming the victim. Senior officials labeled Pretti a "domestic terrorist," accused him of violently resisting arrest, and suggested he intended to massacre law enforcement. Stephen Miller called Pretti an "assassin" who "tried to murder federal agents." President Trump initially went along with the narrative before appearing more doubtful. Available footage and the developing timeline showed Pretti calmly filming Border Patrol and ICE agents, standing between agents and other citizens, and behaving non-confrontationally.
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