President Donald Trump expressed his dislike that Alex Pretti, the anti-ICE protester killed in Minneapolis on Saturday, was carrying a gun when he was shot dead by Border Patrol agents.
“He shouldn’t have been carrying a gun,” Trump told reporters in Urbandale, Iowa.
“I don’t like that he had a gun. I don’t like that he had two fully loaded magazines,” Trump added. “That’s a lot of bad stuff, and despite that, I say that’s a very unfortunate incident.”
As he departed the White House on Tuesday, Trump reiterated a similar sentiment: “You can’t walk in with guns. You can’t do that. But it’s a very unfortunate incident.”
Shortly after Pretti was shot during a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation, the Department of Homeland
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