Americans are deeply skeptical of the Trump administration’s account of the fatal Border Patrol shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti, according to a new poll.
A YouGov poll conducted on Jan. 25 shows that about half (48 percent) of respondents do not think the shooting of Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday was justified. Only 20 percent of those polled said it was justified.
Public skepticism has sharpened among those who have seen footage of the incident. Multiple bystander videos appear to show Pretti holding a phone—not a weapon—in the moments before he was tackled and shot multiple times, even as Trump officials have rushed to claim he “attacked” officers and was intent on committing a “massacre.”
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