But he didn’t engage them. You can see on the video they attacked him. And then the Trump administration lied about it despite evidence to the contrary
That's a delusional interpretaion of what the video clearly shows. Pretti first brought a 9mm automatic with 2 extra clips of bullets, at least 30 rounds, loaded up for a conflict. It was also revealed today (by CNN) that Pretti the sainted pacifist, had a cracked rib from another conflict he was in with
another ICE agent earlier in the week.
For a "peaceful guy who wouldn't hurt anybody", he sure gets in a lot of scraps, and all by aggressively pursuing ICE agents.
In the video you say "they attacked him".
NO, clearly not.
There was a woman protester who was getting in the face of a BP agent and wouldn't get away from him, and loudly blew a whistle right in the agent's ear. He could have arrested her, but just shoved her out of the way so he could do his job, and she fell to the ground.
That's when Pretti jumped in and began obsructing the BP agent. Then the agent pushed Pretti to the ground to arrest him, and other BP agents began grabbing at Pretti, Pretti he kept thrashing around and resisting arrest. And in the preliminary reports (still investigating) with Preti thrashing around, at some point his gun became visible and one agent yelled gun, and feeling endangered and needing to act, an agent drew his gun and fired at Pretti.
AGAIN, the terrorism expert I quoted above, who has worked for the military, local police, and several federal agencies, says that Pretti to even buy a gun had to go through mandatory training on what to do if armed and encountering a police officer. And that Pretti did the exact opposite of what he was trained to do. He put himself in that situation.
His parents told him 2 weeks ago not to engage agents, not to do "something stupid".
Against advice given just 2 weeks before he was shot, he ignored that advice, clashed with agents., and did something stupid. A whole series of stupid things. He came armed, he jumped between an agent and a female protester, already grabbing a BP agent, he further obstructed agents from doing their jobs, then he resisted arrest. If he'd just gone limp at some point, they would have just cuffed him, and he would not have been shot. And the combination of Pretti blocking officers, Pretti thrashing around resisting arrest, and Pretti having a concealed gun, got him killed.
