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by UncleMeat 139 days ago
> But the narrow story of this particular incident changes a lot if there was an accidental discharge that made the other offices believe he was shooting.

Does it? What you are describing is still a monstrous crime. The federal government is insisting that absolutely nothing went wrong and that Pretti was intending to massacre ICE agents. Even taking an enormously charitable reading of the killing I am still horrified by the actions of the government here.