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On Sunday, U.S. Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino told CNN’s Dana Bash that no
one can say for sure that Alex Pretti was murdered in cold blood by a Border
Patrol agent because there must be an investigation first. It would be
irresponsible, he said, to speculate before the facts are known.

The problem for Bovino and the rest of mad king Donald Trump’s fascist
henchmen is that we have seen the video. We know what happened.





 



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The footage shows Pretti holding his phone, not a gun. It shows him trying to
help a woman pepper-sprayed by Trump’s immigration goons. We see him
pepper-sprayed as he backs away, not attacking.

It shows Border Patrol agents tackling him, pinning him to the ground, and
shooting him multiple times while he was restrained. There is no moment in the
video where Pretti threatens an officer, brandishes a weapon, or poses an
imminent danger.

Yet while Bovino attempts to shut down a frank discussion about his agency’s
summary execution with that “ongoing investigation” bullshit, other Trump
administration officials rushed in to invent their own reality.

At a press conference about Pretti’s killing, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem
claimed he “attacked” Border Patrol officers, that he was “brandishing” a gun,
and that he was gunned down to protect fellow officers.

None of that was true. Not even close.

The claims were so blatantly false that even within the administration, cracks
are already showing. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche refused to back up
DHS’s assertion that Pretti was engaging in domestic terrorism, saying on “Fox
& Friends” that “I don’t think anybody thinks that they were comparing what
happened on Saturday to the legal definition of domestic terrorism,” and
warning that it would be wrong to “prejudge the facts.”

He declined to describe Pretti’s actions as anything more than “a tragedy.”

Whether Blanche is later forced to walk that back by Trump remains to be seen.
But the truth is easily verified by the simplest possible test: watch the
video. CNN’s Jake Tapper overlays the footage with Noem’s fantasy explanation,
revealing a made-up version of events with no relationship to what actually
happened:




 



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This isn’t spin. It isn’t confusion. It’s the secretary of Homeland Security
knowingly lying to justify lethal force by her department, as part of an
agencywide collapse so complete that it’s doubtful anyone at DHS is even
capable of telling the truth anymore.

And the absurdity doesn’t stop there. While Noem repeatedly refers to Pretti
as an “attacker,” U.S. Homeland Security adviser Stephen Miller escalated the
lie even further, calling Pretti an “assassin.”

This press conference alone should be grounds for impeachment. A Cabinet
secretary does not get to hide behind “it’s under investigation” to block
accountability while simultaneously fabricating a false narrative to excuse a
killing carried out by her own agency.



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