They Murdered the Nurse and Now the Senate Negotiates His Worth

Senate gives itself two weeks to decide if federal agents should show their faces before they kill American citizens. ICE already has enough money to ignore whatever they decide.

WASHINGTON — Alex Pretti worked the ICU at the Veterans hospital. Thirty-seven years old, concealed carry permit in his wallet, phone in his hand. He went out on a Saturday in Minneapolis to film federal agents doing their work, which in America is supposed to be your right, and two of them put nine bullets in him while he was on the ground with no gun showing.

They pepper-sprayed him first. Hit him in the face a few times. Then the shooting. The Department of Homeland Security said afterward that Pretti “approached” agents while “possessing” a 9mm. They didn’t say he pulled it. They didn’t say he aimed it. They said he possessed it, which in Minnesota you’re allowed to do if you have the permit, which he had.

Now John Thune and Lindsey Graham are in rooms negotiating how much Alex Pretti’s death is worth in legislative language.

The deal they cut Thursday night, about 24 hours before the government was supposed to shut down, goes like this: They’ll fund the Pentagon and the schools and …