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The Justice Department has opened a Civil Rights case into the shooting death of ICU nurse Alex Pretti by Homeland Security agents in Minneapolis January 24.

Civil Rights investigations are standard when there is the use of deadly force by federal agents. But this federal investigation will be harder than it should be.

The Minneapolis crime scenes where ICU Nurse Alex Pretti and Renee Good were shot by Homeland Security agents could not be immediately secured.  As a result, crucial evidence was likely contaminated or destroyed. 

In use of deadly force shooting investigations, the forensic evidence such as shell casings and gunpowder residue can be crucial because the video can never tell the whole story.

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After the Pretti shooting, I reached out to my network of law enforcement and Homeland Security contacts….

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Some of these contacts I have known since 2001 when I first came to Washington DC as the Homeland Security correspondent for Fox News Channel.

While there are multiple videos of the Pretti shooting, a former ATF senior executive who led an elite FBI counterterrorism forensics center said the most important video angle is missing.

“I think people kind of assume that because you have good quality video or photos, it tells the entire story,”  Scott Sweetow, a former Acting Director of the FBI’s Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center explained.  Also known as TEDAC, it is the US government’s top group for analyzing improvised bombs.

“There are, in fact, not enough camera angles for what's important, which is what do the agents actually see? And that's really what this whole case and I think the federal investigation is going to turn on.”

(NOTE: You can watch the full interview on X and also on YouTube. The video links at the end of the newsletter.)

SUPREME COURT STANDARD

In “use of deadly force” investigations, there is a legal standard called ‘objective reasonableness.’

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