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30 years 78 days

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Nah, they went in to murder someone that day. If it wasn’t Alex Pretti it was going to be somebody else.

[Amy Swearer @AmySwearer]

Respectfully, cops don't have an interconnected hive mind. You're assuming the agents who fired knew who had taken the gun or when.

From what I can tell, the two agents who fired shots were not the same agent who took the gun away. The first agent shot within several seconds of the third agent removing Pretti's gun from its holster, and the second agent opened fire after everyone scattered in response to the first agent.

Right now, it's unclear to me what stimuli the first officer was responding to when he fired. Several scenarios are possible, including the "negligent discharge by the third agent" theory, which at this point hasn't been proved or disproved.

Did the first agent see the empty holster on Pretti's back but not know in the chaotic scrum who took it, then react to a negligent discharge which he [mistakenly, but perhaps reasonably] believed was Pretti firing the now missing gun? Did he just see a hand remove the gun from its holster, then [again, mistakenly but perhaps reasonably] interpret something in Petti's hand to be that gun while other officers are shouting "GUN!"? Did he completely unreasonably just think "screw it, I'm tired of this shit" and shoot him? Truly, I have no idea. It's impossible to tell from what we have what the first agent was thinking, seeing, and actually perceiving in real time.

Similarly, the second agent very plausibly just heard another agent shout "GUN!", realized agent one had fired, and reacted instinctively to agent one's perception of the threat. Maybe he mistakenly [but perhaps reasonably] thought the gunshots had come from Pretti. Maybe he had no idea at all that Pretti had ever been armed and just thought "screw it, I'll finish the job." No idea.

This is very different from the Renee Good shooting in so many practical senses. This isn't one officer reacting directly to one other person's actions, where we only have to analyze how he reasonably perceived the car in front of him.

Here, we have a chaotic scrum involving multiple moving parts, multiple officers taking multiple actions over the course of mere seconds that may or may not have been perceived in part or in whole by any other officer, who might reasonably or unreasonably have interpreted any whole or partial perception in a variety of ways. There are so many scenarios in which multiple officers could have been reacting to mistaken but reasonable interpretations of the moving parts. In other words, that the shooting is tragic and perhaps even "a bad shoot" in the sense that Pretti was not actually an imminent threat, but nonetheless justified by subjective perceptions that were reasonable but wrong.

If it's difficult to see how any agent could have reasonably but mistakenly interpreted a serious threat, it's because we have the luxury of playing Monday Morning Quarterback and analyzing multiple camera angles of slow-motion frame-by-frame footage from our office desks, without six other people getting our way or shrilling whistles in our ears while filming us.

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