Newsmax Host Holds Phone Like A Gun To Defend Agents Who Shot Alex Pretti
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Pretti, an intensive care nurse, was never seen holding his phone in such a manner in footage of the fatal incident.
Newsmax host Greg Kelly ludicrously held up his phone to argue that the device could look “a little bit” like a gun as he defended immigration agents for fatally shooting 37-year-old Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
On Monday’s episode of “Greg Kelly Reports,” Kelly displayed an image of Pretti holding a cellphone shortly before he was shot to death on Saturday and suggested that federal agents may have confused it for a gun.
“In a weird way, that phone, I think, can be mistaken for a gun,” he argued. “Now, [Pretti] has a gun, a rather bizarre gun, in his holster. I wanna show you something else.”
Asking his producer to take down the image of Pretti from the screen, Kelly brandished his own cellphone, holding it sideways and pointing it in the air like a gun.
Pretti was never seen holding his phone in such a manner in the footage that has circulated of his killing.
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