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'Planned and purposeful': Case made for first-degree murder charges in Alex Pretti's death
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this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2026
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100% it was meant to finish the job. Probably not the killer(s?) first rodeo either. The administration (mainly Miller and whoever has their hand up his puppet ass) pressures DHS to get new recruits as fast as possible without bothering to do a background check. DHS (Noem and her puppet master Lewendowski) are dumb and evil enough (not to mention fucking drunk on unchecked power and greed) to give their blessing for whatever commands Miller screeches.
Surprise of the century, in the rush to get rich by hurting America, DHS "accidentally" ends up hiring professional murderers to carry out their campaign of making America "safe."
I'm sure they're instructed, in a very obtuse way, to make sure all shots are kill shots.
I mean, when you fire a dozen bullets into a person at close range, it's really really hard not to get a kill shot in
Firearms training doesn't teach you to do some sharpshooter type "Shoot the gun out of his hand" shit (Saying this as an example, it's very clear Pretti was not carrying a weapon in hand.). You're trained to shoot center mass and shoot until the threat stops. That said, it's really hard for me to believe that he was somehow a threat after a bunch of dudes kicked the shit out of him, then still a threat after shooting him in the back 5 times. That was a murder. Straight up.
It's not uncommon in firearms training programs to note that it's harder to be sued by a dead man
Not harder to be sued by legitimate interests. Yet.
There is no such thing as non-lethal shot placement. One of the basic rules of gun safety is that you do not point your gun at anything you don't want to destroy.
If you don't want to kill someone, you don't use a gun.
Same deal with Renee. Maybe he puts himself in danger (incompetence) and maybe he feared for his life with that 1st shot. But that's a huuuuuuuuge stretch.
Wtf were those other 2 shots other than finish the job?