Former ICE agent warns police-ICE non-cooperation Is a ‘formula for disaster’

Former ICE agent Tim Miller warned Sunday that local law enforcement agencies that refuse to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) put public safety at risk, calling the practice a “formula for disaster” after a second civilian death involving federal agents in Minneapolis.

“The scary part is the police aren’t with them,” Miller told “Sunday Night in America” ​​host Trey Gowdy.

“If the police don’t intervene locally, it’s a formula for disaster. And unfortunately, we’re seeing that happen.”

On Saturday, Miller argued that the facts known to the agent who used deadly force on Veterans Affairs Intensive Care Unit nurse Alex Pretti “will be carefully analyzed,” arguing that the facts known to the agent who used deadly force on Veterans Affairs Intensive Care Unit nurse Alex Pretti will be “carefully analyzed,” citing the Supreme Court ruling in Graham v. Connor noted his decision.

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“It all starts with the law. Were laws broken in this case? Absolutely. Then the facts. What are the facts? And to your point, that’s what is carefully analyzed. And then reasonable force. We know that lethal force is an option when a gun is engaged. It should be,” he argued.

Former Minnesota Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who also appeared on Sunday’s program, urged others to delay prosecution until “all the evidence” is revealed.

“We learned in very painful ways, including the shooting of Renee Good: [that] “People who come out prematurely without full information are in a very precarious situation and are doing great harm to the cause of ultimate justice,” he said, raising questions about the use of lethal force in the situation.

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This undated photo provided by Michael Pretti shows Alex J. Pretti, who was shot by a federal officer in Minneapolis on January 24. (Michael Pretti via AP)

“What I see in this video, let’s wait, but also in a video where it appears that a federal agent has a gun, we assume that it’s Pretti’s gun and that it’s a federal agent’s gun, even though we don’t know that he was probably disarmed before the shooting. And that leaves a lot of important questions about why Pretti was shot at by other officers, perhaps up to 10 times, as you noted.”

“What we know now raises many questions and concerns, but we need to let the evidence emerge more fully,” he said.

In the wake of Saturday’s shooting, narratives clashed as members of President Donald Trump’s administration and allies of federal law enforcement defended the agent’s actions as self-defense.

Others, including Pretti’s parents, blasted law enforcement’s version of events as “sickening lies.”

“Alex was a kind-hearted person who cared deeply about his family and friends, as well as the American veterans he cared for as a critical care nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital,” wrote the couple, Michael and Susan Pretti.

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“The sickening lies told by the administration about our son are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when he is attacked by Trump’s murderous and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head as he tries to protect the woman ICE pushed down while being pepper-sprayed.”

Pretti’s death was the second involving a federal agent in Minneapolis this month.

Fox News’ Alexandra Koch and Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report.