Massachusetts officials speak out about the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, 37, by ICE agents<\/b>
\nMassachusetts officials speak out about the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, 37, by ICE agents
Rep. Seth Moulton and other Massachusetts officials took to social media to denounce Immigration and Customs Enforcement after agents killed a second Minneapolis resident on Saturday.
\u201cWhat we saw this morning on the streets of Minneapolis is another outright murder by federal officials,\u201d said Moulton.
Moulton\u2019s video came in response to ICE agents fatally shooting another Alex Pretti, 37, on Saturday. Pretti was an ICU nurse at a VA hospital.
\u201cYou pathetic little cowards who have to wear face masks because you are so damn scared couldn\u2019t even effectively wrestle a guy to the ground, so you needed to shoot him,\u201d said Moulton.
Moulton, a Marine Corps veteran, called the agents involved in Pretti\u2019s killing \u201cunprofessional, pathetic cowards.\u201d
\u201cBecause if a Marine, an 18-year-old Marine did that, in Iraq in the middle of a war zone, he would be court-martialed. Because it is murder,\u201d he said
Moulton said that he voted to defund ICE and demanded that ICE agents and the acting director of ICE, Todd Lyons, face prosecution.
\u201cDirector Lyons who is running ICE right now, I hope you are hearing this from this Marine to you, you guys are criminal thugs, you need to be held accountable to the law if you think you can enforce it, and you need to be prosecuted, right now,\u201d Moulton said.
Other Mass. officials have spoken out against Pretti\u2019s killing.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley took to X to call Pretti\u2019s death an execution.
\u201cWe must abolish ICE, end qualified immunity for ICE agents, and ensure accountability,\u201d Pressley said.
\u201cThe federal government continues to throw money, more than MA\u2019s state budget, at ICE to hire untrained agents who have repeatedly terrorized our communities, killing U.S. citizens & detaining children,\u201d Attorney General Andrea Campbell said.
Senator Elizabeth Warren called for an end to ICE\u2019s presence in Minnesota.
\u201cRepublicans in control of Congress could put a stop to this chaos,\u201d said Warren.
Senator Ed Markey called ICE agents \u201cTrump\u2019s thugs\u201d in a X post.<\/p>\n