Reporters and hosts on Fox News and outlets to its right went out of their way to suggest that Pretti was something other than a civilian killed during a federal operation gone wrong. They relied not on eyewitness accounts of this seeming execution but rather on the story offered by the senior Border Patrol commander, Gregory Bovino, and a White House that labeled Pretti a “domestic terrorist” who posed a serious threat. The killing, these officials insisted, was an act of self-defense. Even when it eventually became clear that the man with at least 10 bullets in his body had...
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