pic.twitter.com/q2nDCrbndN — Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) January 29, 2026The Left has, for weeks, created conditions where the Pretti shooting was inevitable. pic.twitter.com/4ERcYqxpar — Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) January 29, 2026Only Pretti was not such a nice guy. AdvertisementThe official narrative has been that ICE is over-policing, but the new video shows ICE officers erred by under-policing. pic.twitter.com/DgNEIj6XmJ — Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) January 29, 2026In that earlier instance, as well as the one that got him shot, he was carrying a gun in his waistband. Yesterday Jake Tapper described the first altercation that Alex Pretti had with ICE as Pretti just "blowing a whistle" and argued he wasn't an agitator for doing that.