CLAIM: ABC’s The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg claimed Monday that the man shot in Minneapolis by a federal agent Saturday had a “phone and a bottle of water.”
VERDICT: False.
DHS posted information to X, which said, “At 9:05 a.m. CT., as DHS law enforcement officers were conducting a targeted operation in Minneapolis against an illegal alien wanted for violent assault, an armed man approached U.S. Border Patrol Officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun.”
They added, “The officers attempted to disarm the suspect but the armed suspect violently resisted…”
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The man, now identified as Alex Pretti, was shot and died from his injuries. The DHS post made clear he “also had 2 magazines and no ID.”
The DHS post includes a photo of the gun Pretti was carrying:
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