Speaking after Pretti’s shooting, Trump alleged that he’d been brandishing a gun; something which has since been refuted by witnesses.
He wrote online: « This is the gunman’s gun, loaded (with two additional full magazines!), and ready to go – What is that all about? Where are the local Police? Why weren’t they allowed to protect ICE Officers? The Mayor and the Governor called them off?
« It is stated that many of these Police were not allowed to do their job, that ICE had to protect themselves — Not an easy thing to do! »
In a separate comment, he hailed Pretti as an ‘agitator and, perhaps, insurrectionist’.
Trump went on to say of the footage that emerged of Pretti involved in an altercation with ICE in the days leading up to his death: « Alex Pretti’s stock has gone way down with the just released video of him screaming and spitting in the face of a very calm and under control ICE Officer, and then crazily kicking in a new and very expensive government vehicle, so hard and violent, in fact, that the tail light broke off in pieces. »
Trump now claims it ‘should not have happened’
The POTUS continued: « It should have not happened. It was very sad to me, a very sad incident. I think they were both sad.
« And you know who feels worse about it than anybody? The people of ICE. »
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The Governor of California has accused Trump of having ‘something deeply wrong’ with him after the president’s comparisons between Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
President Donald Trump has spoken out about the deaths of 37-year-old mom-of-three Renee Good and 37-year-old intensive care nurse Alex Pretti.
