From Fox News: Two U.S. Customs and Border Protection/Border Patrol agents who fired their weapons during a deadly confrontation with Alex Pretti have been placed on administrative leave, Fox News has learned.
The move is standard procedure and should not be viewed as any suspicion of wrongdoing, the Department of Homeland Security said. The agents are no longer on field duty, for now.
Pretti, a Department of Veterans Affairs ICU nurse, was shot and killed Saturday by Border Patrol agents while recording federal immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis.
Video footage appeared to show him attempting to help a woman knocked down by agents, when he was sprayed with an irritant, pushed to the ground and beaten.
Ahead of the shooting, Pretti was among the anti-ICE activists who were in the street, yelling and blowing whistles at the ICE agents. The mob was ordered to get out of the way and remain on the sidewalk. However, Pretti refused, then “resisted” when the agents tried to take him into custody.
During the struggle, one agent yelled, “He’s got a gun!” The footage shows an agent pulling Pretti’s gun, a 9 mm pistol, from his waistband. Then two other agents opened fire on him.
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