{"id":435546,"date":"2026-01-28T21:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/435546\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T21:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:31:11","slug":"2-federal-agents-put-on-leave-after-alex-pretti-shooting-trump-spars-with-frey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/435546\/","title":{"rendered":"2 federal agents put on leave after Alex Pretti shooting; Trump spars with Frey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sen. Rand Paul,\u00a0R-Ky., called for an independent investigation into Pretti’s death, saying the Department of Homeland Security\u00a0should appoint a commission. <\/p>\n

“We can\u2019t just say, ‘Oh, nothing to see here,’ and, ‘He was obviously an assassin and a domestic terrorist.’ When we say things like that, it leads to no confidence,” he said, referring to DHS’ initial statements about Pretti. <\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t think it\u2019s honest to say he brandished a weapon. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s honest to say he assaulted officers,” he told reporters. “I\u2019m not saying he might not have been obnoxious. I\u2019m not saying he might have said obnoxious things, but he films; he doesn\u2019t even obstruct the traffic. He waves a car through in the middle of this as they approach him. He retreats as they approach him again, he retreats when a woman is shoved to the ground, he goes to help her up, and that\u2019s when he is grabbed from behind.”<\/p>\n

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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 8.\u00a0Kevin Dietsch \/ Getty Images file<\/p>\n

Paul said at no point in the video did he see Pretti assault any agents. <\/p>\n

The senator also said Americans need to know “whether or not filming someone, as I see is going on right now, whether that could be considered to be assault.” <\/p>\n

“Whether retreating from ICE agents is considered to be assault, and whether or not filming and then retreating is an indication that you\u2019re a potential assassin,” he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sen. Rand Paul,\u00a0R-Ky., called for an independent investigation into Pretti’s death, saying the Department of Homeland Security\u00a0should appoint…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-435546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}