AG, DOJ and Pretti
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Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche insisted the new video of Alex Pretti kicking an ICE vehicle will not change the way his death is investigated.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed the investigation at a press conference Friday.
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Blanche says nobody thinks Alex Pretti’s actions meet ‘legal definition of domestic terrorism’
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Monday that the actions of Alex Pretti before he was fatally shot by a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis on Saturday did not constitute domestic terrorism. “I don’t think anybody thinks that they were comparing what happened on Saturday to the legal definition of domestic terrorism,
Todd Blanche suggested to NBC News that Pretti, the Veterans Affairs nurse killed by a Border Patrol agent Saturday, was impeding federal officers when he was thrown to the ground, beaten, and then shot dead—a chilling encounter captured on video.
Federal agents arrested former CNN anchor Don Lemon and three others in connection with a protest at a church in St. Paul, Minnesota.
A Fox News host grilled Deputy AG Todd Blanche over reports of internal frustrations about DHS officials calling Alex Pretti a domestic terrorist.