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Sunday, 25 January 2026

CNN’s frame‑by‑frame analysis

 Here are the key points from the CNN segment:

  • CNN’s frame‑by‑frame analysis of multiple bystander videos appears to show a federal immigration officer removing a handgun from Alex Pretti seconds before other officers fatally shoot him.[youtube]​

  • The initial Trump administration/DHS statement said Pretti approached Border Patrol officers with a 9mm handgun intending to “massacre” law enforcement, but the videos show him backing away, filming with his phone, and then being shoved, pepper‑sprayed, and taken to the ground.[youtube]​

  • In the videos, Pretti is on the pavement under four to five officers, with no weapon visible in his hands, when the shots are fired; CNN counts one shot followed by nine more.[youtube]​

  • The gun later shown by DHS in a photo on a car seat appears, in CNN’s analysis, to be the same gun that an agent is seen taking from the scrum just before the shooting begins.[youtube]​

  • Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe says the footage suggests “horrible law enforcement tactics” that escalated the situation and that there is, so far, no articulated justification for lethal force under standard use‑of‑force training.[youtube]​

  • McCabe argues there is a pattern: officials quickly label victims as “domestic terrorists,” publicly clear agents of wrongdoing, block outside investigations (as with Renee Good’s killing), and signal to agents that there will be no accountability.[youtube]​

  • The segment stresses that DHS has treated the case as “closed and sealed” and has blocked state investigators, raising concerns that there will be no fair, independent inquiry into why Pretti was shot after his gun appears to have been secured.[youtube]​

boycott Donald Trump

 Here are the key points from the video:

  • The host says there is a rapidly growing international movement to boycott Donald Trump’s regime and U.S. tourism and products, sparked first and most strongly in Canada and now spreading across Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America.[youtube]​

  • Canada is described as having led an effective boycott of U.S. tourism, whiskey, bourbon, and other goods, significantly harming those American industries and inspiring similar efforts abroad.[youtube]​

  • In Denmark, an app that lets shoppers scan items to avoid U.S.-linked products has become the country’s top download, reflecting strong public desire to shun American goods after Trump’s threats against Denmark and Greenland.[youtube]​

  • The video highlights Trump’s online attacks on Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, including a threat of 100% tariffs on Canadian goods if Canada deepens trade ties with China, despite Trump having recently praised such a deal as a good idea.[youtube]​

  • It notes rising calls, including from a senior German Football Association executive, to consider boycotting the 2026 World Cup in the U.S., with football fans questioning why they should travel to what they view as a “terrorist state.”[youtube]​

  • The host ties the boycott momentum to Trump’s rhetoric and actions: insults toward NATO allies’ war dead and veterans, attempts to “invade” or control parts of Greenland, threats of punitive tariffs, and the killing of Minneapolis ICU nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti by federal agents.[youtube]​

  • Prime Minister Carney is portrayed as using Trump’s attacks to reinforce a message of Canadian values, multilateralism, and strategic diversification of trade away from the U.S., which the host says further encourages non‑U.S. partnerships.[youtube]​

  • The video predicts that “Boycott USA” campaigns and talk of World Cup and broader economic boycotts will intensify through 2026 unless foreign leaders forcefully push back against Trump’s policies and rhetoric.[youtube]​