AJW on the ICE/Pretti Shooting

I had heard Noem's comments about the shooting, but wasn't paying close attention. I remember being annoyed by her inaccurate, propagandistic description, but Sean is right: it's really bad. In fact, now that I've paid attention to it, it pisses me off more than it seems to piss him off. Noem's description is the moral equivalent of a lie.

   She needs to go.

   Like, yesterday.

   You can be incompetent. Or you can be dishonest. But both is just too much.

   And Trump needs to stop hiring people for their looks.

   AJW also reveals--and I had no idea this was part of the story--that Pretti was carrying a Sig P320...and it seems to have suffered an unintentional discharge just after the agent relieved Pretti of the firearm. The slo-mo video seems to show the slide going back immediately after the first shot is heard. The agent with possession of the firearm is moving away from the scrum, and doesn't seem to have his finger on the trigger--it would be crazy if he did, of course.

   I'm sure I don't have to tell you that the P320 is notorious for unintentional discharges.

   So, after the agents discover Pretti's firearm, and you hear someone say "gun, gun, gun," and the firearm is being taken away from the fight, the Sig goes off...and then a second agent mag dumps Pretti.

   I was skeptical about this shooting...but if that's the true timeline...it certainly seems defensible. The obvious explanation is that the second agent, hearing "gun, gun, gun" and a shot, and likely not realizing that Pretti had been disarmed, thought he (Pretti) had fired the shot at ICE.

   If that's what happened, it's tragic.

   Sean also shows footage of Pretti, in his capacity as a nurse, reading a very respectful statement about a veteran who had passed away. A reminder to righties that they didn't know this man, and he's not likely to be the America-hating moonbat of their imaginations...