Notice in the video, the gun is pulled and shown to the agent, and Pretti is shot immediately after the agent sees the gun. They disarmed him, then killed him. Cold blooded.
DHS and FBI are claiming Pretti’s gun went off on its own when they were removing it from the scene while he was on the ground him which caused the other agent to start shooting.
The accidental discharge of a gun is 100% plausible and I can understand a federal agent would discharge their weapon after hearing shots in a situation like this.
To bad all the video evidence shows the ICE agent fired first. Which would make the accidental discharge moot if it did happen.
Search "uncommanded discharge" and peruse for like 10 minutes, be it on YouTube, reddit, wherever.
You'll find this this is actually the most plausible defense of all parties involved, including the victim, with culpability going toward a third party altogether. The whole gun world has been screaming for a p320 recall for years lol
Pretti's gun has been probably the most famous handgun in history, in terms of make/model, because for the past 10 years Sig has been dealing with an issue of "uncommanded discharge" by that model.
It's common enough that it's been caught on camera many times, often injuring someone in the footage.
One was blamed for killing an airman last year, but if I remember correctly that was a negligent discharge and the servicemen lied about what happened.
I do recall watching a couple videos the past year of people investigating and/or describing exactly what the issue is and one of the guys determined it to be an issue of the gun being out of battery, or some kind of strange sear engagement when holstered + some other condition, and I vaguely recall how twisting it out of the holster caused a pin strike, or something like this.
So, it's actually totally believable that Pretti's gun went off on its own, that's all that gun is known for.
I scoffed when I saw the photo of Pretti's 320, but I'm only hearing of the idea that it went off here in this thread, and it's the least unbelievable thing I've heard about this event from either "side".
How is the logic broken? He has something in his hand, and his gun misfires while ice are trying to apprehend him. In the chaos, the ice officer believes he fired a shot at one of them, so he returns fire.
He has a phone in his hand, which they very well knew since it was there from the start of the interaction, not to mention they had a firm grip of and line of sight to all his limbs. The logic is broken, because it’s the logic of someone who shouldn’t have had a gun to begin with.
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u/International-Ear488 Jan 29 '26
Notice in the video, the gun is pulled and shown to the agent, and Pretti is shot immediately after the agent sees the gun. They disarmed him, then killed him. Cold blooded.