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>Sources within a divided DHS say they are “losing the base.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-civil-war-breaks-out-over-bogus-claims-about-icu-nurse/
A Fox News reporter claims staff morale within the Department of Homeland Security is at a “catastrophic” low after the public killing of Alex Pretti by an immigration officer.
Pretti, 37, was shot dead in Minneapolis on Saturday by a masked federal agent during a protest over ICE raids. Renee Good was killed by an ICE agent on Jan. 7 in the same area.
In a post on Twitter on Sunday, Bill Melugin, congressional correspondent for Fox News, said he had spoken to over half a dozen federal sources in immigration enforcement, including several in senior positions, about their disappointment with the department’s handling of the fatal shooting.
Melugin said his sources admitted they had grown “uneasy and frustrated” with the “claims and narratives” pushed by DHS after Pretti’s death.
As happened after the killing of Good, Pretti was immediately labelled a “domestic terrorist” by DHS officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
The DHS claimed an agent shot Pretti in self-defense and that the ICU nurse had a handgun and had resisted attempts to disarm him.
Noem said Pretti “had a weapon on him, and multiple—dozens—of rounds of ammunition; wishing to inflict harm on these officers, coming, brandishing like that.”
She added, “This individual impeded the law enforcement officers and attacked them.”
Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol commander, said it resembled a “situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.”
>Pretti’s family have challenged that narrative, while footage of the incident does not show him using force against the agents during a protest over the ongoing ICE raids in Minnesota that were sanctioned by the Trump administration.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-civil-war-breaks-out-over-bogus-claims-about-icu-nurse/
A Fox News reporter claims staff morale within the Department of Homeland Security is at a “catastrophic” low after the public killing of Alex Pretti by an immigration officer.
Pretti, 37, was shot dead in Minneapolis on Saturday by a masked federal agent during a protest over ICE raids. Renee Good was killed by an ICE agent on Jan. 7 in the same area.
In a post on Twitter on Sunday, Bill Melugin, congressional correspondent for Fox News, said he had spoken to over half a dozen federal sources in immigration enforcement, including several in senior positions, about their disappointment with the department’s handling of the fatal shooting.
Melugin said his sources admitted they had grown “uneasy and frustrated” with the “claims and narratives” pushed by DHS after Pretti’s death.
As happened after the killing of Good, Pretti was immediately labelled a “domestic terrorist” by DHS officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
The DHS claimed an agent shot Pretti in self-defense and that the ICU nurse had a handgun and had resisted attempts to disarm him.
Noem said Pretti “had a weapon on him, and multiple—dozens—of rounds of ammunition; wishing to inflict harm on these officers, coming, brandishing like that.”
She added, “This individual impeded the law enforcement officers and attacked them.”
Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol commander, said it resembled a “situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.”
>Pretti’s family have challenged that narrative, while footage of the incident does not show him using force against the agents during a protest over the ongoing ICE raids in Minnesota that were sanctioned by the Trump administration.
