Kristi Noem

When he did that, interacting with those agents, when they tried to get him to disengage, he became aggressive and resisted them throughout that process.

These officers used their training, followed their protocols, and were in fear of their lives and the people around them.

And that's how this tragedy unfolded, and we hope we never see it again.

ICE is making us not more safe, they're making us less safe, and they need to get out of our state.

This looks like a situation where an individual arrived at the scene to inflict maximum damage on individuals and to kill law enforcement.

The individual approached U.S.

Border Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun.

The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently.

Fearing for his life and for the lives of his fellow officers around him, an agent fired defensive shots.

The suspect also had two magazines with ammunition in them that held dozens of rounds.

We do know that he came to that scene and impeded a law enforcement operation, which is against federal law.

It's a felony.

When he did that, interacting with those agents, when they tried to get him to disengage, he became aggressive and resisted them.

And that's how this tragedy unfolded.

And we hope we never see it again.

It grieves me to think about

what his family is going through, but it also grieves me what's happening to these law enforcement officers every day out on the streets with the violence that they faced.

As Christy said, you cannot bring a firearm loaded with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want.

It's that simple.

You don't have that right to break the law and incite violence.