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]​