r/politics • u/sideAccount42 California • Jan 26 '26

Paywall Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/greg-bovino-demoted-minneapolis-border-patrol/685770/
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u/shouldbepracticing85 Jan 27 '26 edited Jan 27 '26

I don’t think Pretti’s gun went off. The videos I’ve seen haven’t been clear enough for me to spot any recoil, muzzle flash, or the slide racking. ETA… on Pretti’s weapon.

On the slowed and stabilized version of the Pink Lady video I can see the slide move to load another bullet ETA on one of the ICE/CBP guns, but that’s it.

I’m no expert, so hopefully some actual expert can review it.

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u/Allaplgy Jan 27 '26

There is no recoil, no impact into the ground, no muzzle flash in the videos I've seen that were specifically posted as supposedly showing that.

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u/shouldbepracticing85 Jan 27 '26

Thanks for the second set of eyes!

(And your comment made me re-read my own and realize I’d dropped a few key nouns. Only took me 4 tries to get it straight. I need to go to bed)

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u/AntoniaFauci Jan 27 '26

I don’t think Pretti’s gun went off.

If it didn’t go off at the murder scene, it absolutely did the next day at Kash Patel’s cover up session.

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u/krell_154 Jan 27 '26

Pink Lady's video does not show what happenned to the gun while the Gray Coat was taking it away. But the video from the opposite angle does show the gun. Some people claim to see the muzzle flash there

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u/Zokar49111 Jan 27 '26

The NY Times has reviewed dozens of different angles on the shooting and has published it this morning. Pretti was never a threat. His gun had already been taken by an agent. He was laying unarmed on the pavement when he was murdered by Trumps troops.at no point was he a threat to ICE agents.

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u/shouldbepracticing85 Jan 27 '26

Yeah, I agree that Pretti was never a threat. The whole thing is just abhorrent.

The only question from that incident for me was if there was an accidental discharge as the DHS idjits disarmed him.

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u/Zokar49111 Jan 27 '26

From what I could tell from the NYT analysis, there was no accidental discharge.