"Those rights don't count": Bovino says Pretti forfeited 2nd Amendment rights in fatal shooting - Salon.com
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Border Patrol's Greg Bovino said his agents were "the victims" of a the deadly shooting in Minneapolis.

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.

      • ozoned@piefed.socialEnglish
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        9 hours ago

        Yeah, but the picture is obviously a casual tour of the Capitol. That’s the lie they’ve told and lies before that and this is another round of lies people want to believe. And I’m sure I’ll hear it spouted when I’m out and about.

        • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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          9 hours ago

          They were mostly peaceful, allegedly, and nobody got hurt (if you don’t count the people that got hurt or killed).

          You’re a terrorist assassin deserving of execution if you help a woman who was shoved over in the snow, but attempting to climb through a secure and barricaded in the face of multiple people with their weapons drawn then being shot makes you a tragic victim worth of a multi-million dollar settlement.

          War is Peace, also