Alex Pretti’s death has become a raw, defining moment because it fuses policy with an intimate human loss. Barack Obama’s unusually blistering rebuke of the Trump administration framed the shooting not as an isolated mistake, but as the product of a deliberate climate of escalation. His words echoed what many Americans saw in the footage: masked agents in residential streets, force deployed faster than questions could be asked, and explanations that seemed to arrive before investigations. Continue reading…
