In a heated interview with CNN‘s Dana Bash on Sunday, Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino said his agents were the real “victims” in the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis protestor.
Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old Veterans Affairs nurse, was killed by Border Patrol agents on Saturday. In videos of the deadly altercation between Pretti and several agents, he can be seen placing himself between an agent and several women that he was shoving. Pretti is sprayed with a chemical irritant and then wrestled to the ground, where one agent repeatedly hit him in the head with the irritant’s metal canister. Pretti, who was legally carrying a firearm, was fatally shot by agents while on the ground.
DHS immediately painted Pretti as a threat, saying that officers feared for their lives because Pretti was legally carrying a firearm. Multiple videos of the shooting contradicted the official line that Pretti was threatening agents. On Sunday, Bash pressed Bovino for evidence “that he was intending to massacre law enforcement.”
When Bash repeatedly asserted Pretti’s right to carry his firearm, Bovino made the bold claim that Pretti forfeited his Second Amendment rights via his actions.
If these officers “feared for their lives” in this situation, maybe we need some agents who aren’t fucking cowards. I didn’t realize MAGA knowingly celebrated cowardly men.
Have you met a MAGAT?
They’re all cowards.
They talk a big game but if you ever even show them an ounce of resistance or defiance they turn tail and run. There’s a reason they love guns so much, it’s a fucking power totem/the only thing that makes them feel manly. They are feckless cowards and because they think them and their ilk are the only ones armed they can use it to get their way.
They forget that some of us don’t announce we’re packing and will only use it as a last fucking resort. We’re not bloodthirsty animals who wish to cause needless death, since we have fucking empathy, unlike them.
Individually, many MAGA folks are cowardly. However, they also claim to despise cowards. So maybe this can be used to make them tear themselves apart.