General Discussion

The reported two agents who fired their guns at him point blank are the obvious culprits in the killing of Pretti. But seconds before he was shot, he was severely beaten in the head with a gas canister wielded by an agent while Pretti was on the ground. Even if those two agents had chosen not to shoot him, he most likely would have suffered severely crippling head trauma or even death because of this beating. I wonder when/if we will see an autopsy report indicating this as a contributing factor to his death and that agent held to account for it as an illegal use of lethal force. There can be no legitimate training in law enforcement tactics which can justify a non-lethal defensive gas weapon to be misused as a bludgeon. Just because a gun isn't used doesn't mean goons cannot still kill you by beating you to death. Or, in the case of George Floyd, by strangulation.