It’s worse than it looks and it looks plenty bad.
So here are the things we know:
- On Saturday morning, Alex Jeffrey Pretti was observing DHS agents on a public street. He was using his phone to record their actions.
- At some point a DHS agent approached Pretti and began pushing him backward.
- More DHS agents mobbed Pretti and began beating him. In multiple videos you can see Pretti, on the ground, with a scrum of agents assaulting him.
- One agent appears to pistol whip Pretti about the head.
- Then an agent shoots Pretti from point-blank range.
- Other agents begin shooting Pretti.
- Quickly, Pretti is motionless on the ground while at least one agent continues firing his weapon at him from a short distance away.
- Pretti was quickly pronounced dead.
If this were all that had happened it would have been bad enough. But it got worse.