US EditionTrump on Alex Pretti shooting: ‘You can’t walk in with guns’
Trump demands an honest probe into the fatal shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents amid leadership changes and conflicting official accounts.
- On Saturday, President Donald Trump expressed dislike that Alex Pretti, an anti-ICE protester, carried a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun when shot in Minneapolis and said a `big investigation` is underway.
- Pretti was a legal gun owner with a permit and video reportedly shows he was disarmed before he was killed, prompting Gun Owners of America and Second Amendment advocates to push back.
- The episode has prompted political pushback as President Donald Trump's comments mark a sudden turnabout amid criticism from Republicans, Second Amendment supporters, and the National Rifle Association over standard magazine carrying.
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She filmed the video that became a disaster for the Trump administration. Stella Carlos, eyewitness to the killing of Alex Pretti, has now spoken for the first time.
By Michael Williams, CNN Stella Carlson was supposed to spend Saturday morning painting children’s faces in a church. It would have been a welcome contrast to the avalanche of weeks of federal immigration control and protests that have overwhelmed her home in the Twin Cities—Minneapolis–Saint Paul. For Carlson, participating actively in her community is important, and she had spent the last three weeks learning about mutual help and participatin…
The US president called the shooting of a hospital nurse in Minnesota by immigration police a very unfortunate incident.
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