The federal agents who were involved in the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti have been reassigned, Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino announced.
Bovino spoke at a news conference in Minneapolis on Sunday, one day after Pretti was shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent during an immigration operation in the city. Bovino revealed that the agents at the scene of the shooting have since been moved to “other locations.”
“All agents that were involved in that scene are working not in Minneapolis, but in other locations. That’s for their safety,” he told reporters.
Bovino added that the relocation was done to prevent “doxxing” of the agents, pledging to look out for their safety as the shooting has inflamed tensions nationwide.
It is unclear how
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