During the encounter that culminated in Minneapolis protester Renee Good's death on January 7, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents senselessly escalated a situation that could have been resolved peacefully. Something similar happened on Saturday morning, when U.S. Border Patrol agents fatally shot Alex Pretti, another Minneapolis protester.
According to a statement that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued that morning, those agents were arresting "an illegal alien wanted for violent assault" when Pretti "approached" them "with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun." The officers "attempted to disarm" him, according to DHS, "but the armed suspect violently resisted." DHS described "a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement."
