More than a half-dozen GOP senators say there needs to be a probe into the fatal shooting of Pretti, a U.S. citizen, by Border Patrol.

More than a half-dozen GOP senators say there needs to be a probe into the fatal shooting of Pretti, a U.S. citizen, by a Border Patrol agent.

A growing number of Republican senators are calling for an investigation into the killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis as many Trump administration officials defend federal officers’ actions.

Sens. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine, Mike Crapo of Idaho, John Curtis of Utah, Jerry Moran of Kansas, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Thom Tillis of North Carolina have all said there needs to be a thorough probe into Saturday’s fatal shooting of Pretti, a U.S. citizen, by a Border Patrol agent.

Administration officials overseeing immigration enforcement may soon face public scrutiny from Republicans and Democrats alike.

  • Manjushri@piefed.socialEnglish
    74·
    15 hours ago

    What about Renee Good?! Shouldn’t they be demanding investigations into ALL the ICE murders and assorted criminal acts?

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    8·
    11 hours ago

    I’d be careful with this. The NRA blamed Walz for essentially inciting the shooting. I don’t have much hope that republicans calling for investigations would not try to spin it to blame democratic officials.

    • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
      2·
      8 hours ago

      What about all the murders by this regime that we probably don’t know about? People have been disappeared from the concentration camps

      • LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        1 hour ago

        Truth! I want justice for everyone, how many are suffering and dying in the concentration camps? ‘Deported’ to who knows where, and just murdered in the streets. Ice needs to go

    • UnspecificGravity@piefed.socialEnglish
      261·
      15 hours ago

      Nah. Border patrol has literally murdered like a hundred people in the last decade and not one of them matters until they decided to shoot a white guy.

      • Taldan@lemmy.world
        8·
        12 hours ago

        There’s more to it than that, but let’s take it at face value

        What does complaining about it do? The majority now cares that ICE is killing people. Do you want people to treat Pretti’s killing like all the others?

        I don’t see how any good can come from complaining that action wasn’t taken now that we have a chance for change

        • UnspecificGravity@piefed.socialEnglish
          32·
          11 hours ago

          No. I want people to treat the hundred brown people they killed like they mattered as much as the one white guy they killed. Weird that is such a foreign concept that its hard for you to grasp that.

          • krashmo@lemmy.world
            21·
            10 hours ago

            The point is that isn’t how the world works. You can complain about that all you like but it won’t change anything. Accept that reality is what it is and respond accordingly. In this case that means using whatever opening you have to press for change. Telling racists they should care about brown people is obviously not going to work, even if it is true. Pointing out that their policies are killing white people might. This is the basic concept of politics.

              • krashmo@lemmy.world
                1·
                8 hours ago

                You’re assuming that I don’t. Failing to distinguish between an argument that will land with some people vs one that will land with most people is exactly the problem people are pointing out to you and you’re still doing it here.