CNN Reporter Destroys Trump Admin Over New Bombshell Video of Killing: ‘Worse and Worse and Worse’ For Them!

CNN correspondent Tom Foreman destroyed the Trump administration’s narrative on the killing of Alex Pretti with an analysis of new lengthy video of the shooting showing the events that led up to the incident.

Chaos and widespread outrage erupted Saturday when Trump Border Patrol agents shot Pretti in Minneapolis as social media video of the incident circulated.

Protests erupted immediately, and Trump officials rushed to make outlandish claims about Pretti, the man who was shot — even falsely labeling him an “assassin” intent on “massacring” feds.

But multiple videos of the shooting refuted those claims.

On Tuesday’s edition of CNN’s The Situation Room, anchor Wolf Blitzer asked Foreman to break down one of those videos — a seven-minute clip obtained by the Associated Press.

Foreman took viewers through the video, which depicts the actions that led up to the shooting and thoroughly knocks down the Trump administration’s claims:

WOLF BLITZER: Tom take us through everything we see here.

TOM FOREMAN: This video just gets worse and worse and worse for the White House and what they’ve been claiming!

Let’s start with the general set up here.

About 7 minutes of video before all this happens and it puts everything in deeper context.

Let’s talk first with the general street scene here and let this play out. What had happened according to witnesses is that a group of ICE agents had been in pursuit of somebody who they say was an undocumented immigrant, who they said was dangerous.

He ran into a building there where the door was locked by people inside and they couldn’t get inside. Pretti and the other protesters, according to what we heard, were across the street shooting video. They were at some distance here watching it and they were seeing this evolve on the other side of the street.

Let’s look at the other image here. Now you see one of the officers here with pepper spray in his hand. Even though again, we’re talking about according to witnesses only about ten people across the street from them.

Not pushing up on them not necessarily crowding them. You hear the whistles in the background. It’s a warning sign that many protesters have out there to say ICE is in the area.

Now what happens? When you follow the next piece of the video here is that the agents, according to witnesses and when you watch the video–.

They cross the street to engage with Pretti and the other people over there. So Pretti is there, the agents come across and engage with them, and that’s when you see this moment where one of the agents pushes Pretti off the road.

And you hear Pretti yelling, “Don’t push me!”.

And he says, “I’m not in traffic, you’re in traffic. You came in traffic to come over and push me” at this point.

So again, the notion of this being a riot, which we’ve heard many times, this is not– they may not like it but this is hardly the definition of a riot.

Then another person gets knocked to the ground and pinned down.

If you look at that video Pretti yells out in this video hey leave her alone but he doesn’t grab an officer he doesn’ approach officers he just says leave her along while they’re pinning this person down.

So again all the indications here in this video, which is, again, six, seven minutes before the shooting–.

Shows all of the aggression coming from the officers aimed at these people. And then finally, we move to the moment where they grab Pretti as he’s trying to help a person who has also been pushed down.

When you see that video, the agents storm in, look, they’re shoving people, this woman goes to the ground, Pretti goes to help her, remember, he’s a nurse, he to help this woman who’s down on the ground.

And the agents grab him while his back is turned and drag him into the center of people where they’re all gathered around here.

You can see one of them starts striking him in the head with some sort of device or you see him smacking somebody in the had here and then finally you reach the point where the gunfire breaks out.

So was it a riot? It certainly doesn’t look like one unless you’re talking about a riot of the officers themselves.

Was Pretti did he you have a weapon out that he was showing anybody?

No there’s no evidence of that in any of the video.

Was he grabbing or attacking the officers? No there is no bit evidence of any of that, Wolf.

As I said the more video we get the worse and worse and worst it looks for the White House account of what’s going on, what went on!

WOLF BLITZER: And he’s on the ground and then you hear those ten gunshots. It is so, so awful just to think about that. Guy is on the grounds and they fire ten shots right at his body.

TOM FOREMAN: He’s in a sort of a fetal position, you know, sort of face down on the ground. And from all evidence in the video, the only person to touch Alex Pretti’s gun was the ICE agent who took it from him a moment before they opened fire on him.

So in all indications, he was unarmed when they shot and killed him. So this is, again, none of this is playing well for the official account of what’s on because all of it says the official account is wrong.

WOLF BLITZER: And all these videos are so powerful and graphic, so disturbing indeed.

Watch above via CNN’s The Situation Room.

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