A rosary adorns a framed photo of Alex Pretti that was left at a makeshift memorial in the area where he was shot and killed a day earlier by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis. | Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images
Increasingly, the Trump administration’s defense of Alex Pretti’s killing has come to center on the fact that he had a gun.
“We respect that Second Amendment right, but those rights don’t count when you riot and assault, delay, obstruct and impede law enforcement officers,” Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol’s commander-at-large, told CNN over the weekend. “You cannot...
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