Someone on Trump’s level has finnaly taken the hint and gone back to the standard and IS bringing in the FBI and The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division to the Alex Pretti shooting death by several Customs Border patrol officers….
The orignal investigator‘s where just Homeland people….
The Justice Dept IS the place serious Federal shooting get reviewed at….
Not Homeland..
The question will be…
Does Trump’s people let those investigator’s do their job and make their conclusions, or ?
Are thye told what to hand down?
The spotlight maybe tirning to Att Gen Blondi on this….
Which still couild have Trump & Co. on the background calling the playss, eh?
“The Justice Department opened a federal civil-rights probe into the death of Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse fatally shot by Border Patrol officers last Saturday in Minneapolis,” NOTUSreports.
“Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Friday that the FBI is leading the investigation, with the involvement of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.”
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The Justice Department said Friday it has opened a civil rights investigation into the shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis last weekend, a reversal from its handling so far of shootings involving agents during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota.
“We’re looking at everything that would shed light on that day,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said at a news conference Friday. Blanche said FBI investigators would continue to work with the Department of Homeland Security, which has been conducting its own “use of force” investigation into whether its agents followed protocol during the incident.
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“This is what I would describe as a standard investigation by the FBI when there are circumstances like what we saw last Saturday,” he said. “And that investigation — to the extent it needs to involve lawyers at the Civil Rights Division, it will involve those.”
Still, comments from the Justice Department’s No. 2 official marked an about-face from the Trump administration’s previous rhetoric surrounding Pretti’s death. Initially, administration officials said no civil rights investigation was warranted, a position that sparked national outrage and calls — including from some Republican lawmakers — for an independent probe.
Blanche’s remarks Friday came just hours after President Donald Trump maligned Pretti and defended federal officers. In a social media post, he labeled Pretti “an agitator, and perhaps, insurrectionist.”…
For starters, this may be their way of preventing Minnesota authorities to investigate or bring charges.
I also believe there is zero chance that Trump would not intervene to prevent charges or even issue a pardon. Though he may be willing to throw agents under a political bus, his base demands they vilify Pretti and any anti-Trump protestor and that is what he is focused on.
I’ve posted that Trump IS under internal party pressure After the video’s have been playing….
No
Matter what?
Wrongful Death Civil suits are CERTAIN to be filed
DOJ IS shedding lawyers every day from
The Minnesota invasion….
The internal party pressure on him is actually go to harder on illegal immigrants and protestors. They love what ICE is doing, etc. They love the way it has people so angry. This is not the overall position of the country, but it is the position of the MAGA base, that they feel they cannot afford to lose in regards to the midterms and beyond. They figure the rest of their folks will realize they have nowhere else to go but stay with them.
While Trump has commanded a cult for years, we may now be at a scenario where the tail is wagging the dog.
Yea?
Ok that’s why they finally went back to protcol and brought in the FBI and Justice Dept. Civil Rights people?
NO…
AGAIN….
ANYBODY seeing the video and the circumstances IS thinking?
‘Something ain’t RiGHT’…..
Trump was posting about the video from 11 days prior which showed Pretti being angry and disruptive and kicking the car. Many will of course falsely believe he was doing these things right before he was shot or that the videos are on the same day. That is the only video they care about.
That is all that matters. The narrative has gone out that the base wants Pretti to be the villain.
To me, that video proves that while he probably should have been arrested that day and for whatever reason was not, that these agents might have recognized him 11 days later and decided to pull of a mafia style revenge hit.
I trust Kash Patel and Pam Bondi to conduct a fair and impartial investigation here.
I would add to the above remark but I just saw the Easter bunny hopping across my lawn and I need to talk with him .
I’ll be back later…..