Overview
- Newsmax host Greg Kelly held his phone like a gun on-air to argue agents could have mistaken Alex Pretti’s cellphone for a firearm.
- Megyn Kelly said she does not feel sorry for Pretti and claimed he sought a confrontation, drawing sharp backlash online.
- Bystander videos show Pretti filming and being forced to the ground before shots were fired, and a Washington Post review indicates an agent removed his holstered gun beforehand.
- Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino’s statement that Pretti approached with a 9 mm handgun conflicts with publicly available footage, which shows no instance of him drawing his legally carried weapon.
- Lawmakers from both parties called for an independent review, and gun-rights groups criticized a U.S. attorney’s broad claim about shooting armed individuals during police encounters.