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.
I hate that fucking smug face, where is a Lugi when one is needed.
This administration is playing with fire by trying to blame this on the gun that the man was legally carrying and licensed to own.
The 2A people in MAGA are not happy, there’s a little civil war brewing in r/conservative between the bots and the 2A supporters.
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The fascist will say anything, regardless of reality, logic, or even internal consistency, to advance his self interested power grab and all of the violence it requires. He has no moral code and no allegiance to law. He cannot be reasoned with doesn’t deserve that kind of deference. Once he achieves control, he cannot be voted out of power.
There was a lot more than just the 2nd amendment right that was being violated there.
Something, something, inalienable rights, something, something, life, liberty…
Cool. Do I get to decide which rights apply to Bovino and his bullshit army now? What he’s doing doesn’t sound much like “…support[ing] and defend[ing] the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic…” or “…bear[ing] true faith and allegiance to the same…” so his actions ought to have consequences too.
Before the reply: No, I will not elaborate, fed.
You fucking Nazis are not granting us our rights…you work for us fuck head
2A nuts are showing themselves as the hypocrites the rest of us already knew they were.
