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The View’ Hosts Denounce Alex Pretti Shooting, Tell DHS Leaders They Have ‘Blood on Your Hands’

The on-air rebuke follows viral videos that undercut official self-defense claims, intensifying calls for accountability.

Overview

  • The ABC panel aired multiple angles of the Minneapolis shooting as Whoopi Goldberg called it “straight up murder” and addressed Kristi Noem and Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino by name.
  • Homeland Security officials have defended the agents as acting in self-defense, but bystander video shows Pretti holding a phone and separate footage appears to show an officer removing a handgun from his waistband before shots were fired.
  • Pretti, a 37-year-old VA ICU nurse and legal gun owner, was killed during a federal enforcement surge in Minneapolis weeks after Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent.
  • Noem has said the administration is investigating the incident, while a witness statement and public comments challenge claims that Pretti acted violently.
  • Response has widened beyond partisan lines, with cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin criticizing the operation, Sen. Jacky Rosen calling for Noem’s impeachment, and celebrities displaying “ICE OUT” pins at Sundance.