Jordan Berman

Welcome back to Unbiased, your favorite source of unbiased news and legal analysis.

Welcome back to Unbiased Politics.

Today is Thursday, January 29th.

Let's talk about some news.

We've got a lot to cover today, so let's just get right into it.

We will start the episode with some developments related to the Alex Pretty shooting.

And there are quite a few, so we'll kind of just bounce from one to the next.

And I'll just kind of, I'll attempt to explain these in chronological order, but there's just been so much happening since Monday's episode that everything kind of gets meshed together.

So first, let's talk about the DHS preliminary report.

On Tuesday, the DHS shared this preliminary report on the Alex Pretty shooting with Congress based on an initial investigation that was done by the CBP's Office of Professional Responsibility.

And in completing that investigation, the Office of Professional Responsibility basically relied on body cam footage as well as available documentation.

Now, remember, the CBP is an agency within the DHS, right?

So the DHS oversees the CBP and any internal offices within the CBP, including the Office of Professional Responsibility.

So that's why it was the DHS that shared this report with Congress.

Now, the report has not been released to the public, but it has been seen by various news outlets, and these various news outlets have reported on its contents.

So per those reports, the initial investigation found that CBP agents were conducting a targeted operation when they encountered Preti.

The report states that while Pretty was on the ground, a Border Patrol agent yelled, quote, he's got a gun multiple times, though the report does not state that Pretty ever showed his gun, you know, or like brandished his gun, as was initially reported by DHS Secretary Noem.

Roughly five seconds after the Border Patrol agent yelled that Pretty had a gun, two agents discharged firearms at Pretty, one of whom was a Border Patrol agent with a CBP-issued Glock 19.

The other was a CBP agent with a CBP-issued Glock 47.

The report found that after the shooting, a Border Patrol agent advised that he had possession of Pretty's firearm and that it was cleared and secured in the agent's vehicle.