Pretti Shooting: Where’s the gun? |
Douglas V. Gibbs ——Bio and Archives--January 30, 2026
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The video of the shooting of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents in Minnesota has been analyzed over and over and over again, and nobody I have watched has brought up a key point that answers everything. Am I the only one taking the full context into account and noticing a key aspect that nobody else has even muttered about? A listener sent me a video by “Dr. G Explains” titled “The Shooting of Alex Pretti the Missed Details: Body Language & Psychology,” which gives the best views and careful analysis of the video, but even this clinical and forensic psychologist missed the obvious.
In the video, the psychologist carefully analyzes every body movement, the shuffling of feet, and each of the aggressive movements by each of the persons on the scene. He admits most of what is being said cannot be fully understood, and we don’t know what is going through the minds of those involved. Hindsight is twenty-twenty, and careful examination of the video doesn’t take into account the heat of the moment. Decisions needed to be made based on each person’s viewpoint of the situation – what they heard, what they saw or didn’t see, and what they believed to be a threat—is not being considered as a part of the analysis.
According to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Pretti "approached U.S. Border Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun" and claimed he "wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement," justifying the agent's actions as defensive. The shooting has the opposition voices calling for ICE to........