"The anti-ICE crew is getting exactly what it wants right now, the board wrote. People looking at a video on TikTok don't get any of the context: All they're seeing is a crowd of agents beating a guy onto the ground, with shots then ringing out and him ending up dead. Having Homeland Security double down now is all too likely to produce more such scenes."
"The alacritous and misleading rhetoric coming out of the administration needs to stop: Any reasonable person who has watched the videos clearly knows by now he was not waving his gun around,' the board wrote. And while Pretti was horribly misguided, there is no evidence he was a terrorist' intent on a massacre' of law enforcement. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem should also take a break from her self-promoting and combative TV hits."
Calls urged President Trump to scale back federal operations in Minneapolis and to de-escalate after the Saturday shooting death of Alex Pretti. Critics warned that aggressive federal actions and alacritous rhetoric worsen optics and risk producing more violent scenes. Observers noted that short social media videos lack context, showing agents beating a man and subsequent gunfire leading to his death. Homeland Security's doubling down was characterized as likely to inflame tensions. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's comments labeling Pretti a domestic terrorist were challenged, and calls were made for her to stop media appearances. Local leaders received criticism as well.
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