these "facts" will all be in the internal closed door DHS report where DHS investigates DHS and finds DHS didnt do anything wrong according to DHS. no body cam footage, when Goode was released 2 days later, means they know he fucked up. and the video under frame by frame analysis shows he fucked up, but they'll weather the storm and not release it hoping someone else dies and focus shifts.
The DHS put out a preliminary report last night, quite to the contrary.
It mostly told us what we already knew, but a few very important new details cast light on it and make the case much worse for self-defense / justification, though it makes it unclear where responsibility falls or who did what.
The preliminary report says that
two federal agents opened fire (with their own guns), and doesn't specify who shot first or who reacted to what, and makes no mention of Pretti's gun being discharged which they would know by this point, since they were investigating exactly that possibility. That's also contradicting the supposedly verified frame-by-frame analysis of the new york times / etc who put all the blame on the officer with the visible gun in his hand and claimed he was the lone gunman here
The rest of the report is the stuff we already knew;
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At 9 a.m. on Jan. 24, Border Patrol agents and Customs and Border Protection agents were on scene at Nicollet Avenue and 26th Street, where a crowd had formed and many people were blowing whistles.
The agents encountered two women whom they told to move out of the street and onto the sidewalk, but they did not move.
Agents pushed the women, “and one of the females ran to a male, later identified as 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti.”
Agents then pepper-sprayed the woman and Pretti, and tried to detain Pretti, setting off a struggle.
At this point, one Border Patrol agent started repeatedly shouting, “He’s got a gun!”
Five seconds later, two agents discharged their service weapons. The report does not say which agent fired first, just that one was a Border Patrol agent and one was a CBP officer.
One of those agents “subsequently cleared and secured Pretti’s firearm in his vehicle.”
At 9:02 a.m., agents cut Pretti’s clothes and began administering medical aid. By 9:05 a.m., Minneapolis emergency medical personnel arrived and took over Pretti’s medical care.
Pretti was put in an ambulance nine minutes later, and by 9:32 a.m., he had been declared dead at Hennepin County Medical Center.