Noem says her response to Pretti shooting may have been wrong

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Politico

01/29/2026 10:59 PM EST


Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has conceded she may have gotten some information wrong in her initial response to Border Patrol’s killing of Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis ICU nurse she labeled a domestic terrorist.

Noem also dodged questions about her leadership of DHS amid widespread outrage, even among some Republicans, about the deaths of Pretti and Renee Good during an aggressive immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis.

Noem, who said Pretti committed an “act of domestic terrorism” against immigration agents despite videos showing otherwise, told Fox News on Thursday that the situation immediately following the killing was “very chaotic,” and the details she presented to reporters came from initial reports from Customs and Border Protection agents in Minneapolis.

“We were being relayed information from on the ground from CBP agents and officers that were there,” Noem said. “We were using the best information we had at the time.”

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/29/noem-pretti-shooting-00756830

[PJMcK]

1. Hey, Noem!

You were unquestionably wrong. Your shoot-from-the-hip responses demonstrate your lack of judgment, your lack of knowledge and your lack of humanity. Your entire behavior has been un-American.

Step aside, resign, sit down and shut up. You’ll never hold office again and you’ll be lucky to avoid criminal charges.

Asshat.

[2naSalit]

2. Fucking liar!

Even here she lies! JHFC.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Aren't high level leaders supposed to keep a calm head in chaotic conditions?

[MLWR]

4. I'm sorry but she should be sued into oblivion for slander and wrongful death.

[Javaman]

5. it's amusing and sad watching a psychopath trying to wrap their brains around empathy

she's trying to scrape the shit off her, but she's made of shit.

[mwooldri]

6. You don't say....

(is the sarcasm tag really necessary here?)

If that was her best information.... then at best it seems to me she lacks critical thinking skills. I'm sure someone would have shown her the video before she went out there labelling Alex Pretti a "domestic terrorist".

[ColoringFool]

7. Isn't There A Concete Pad She Can Be Taken To?

Asking for my friend Cricket.

[Botany]

8. Noem called the murdered AMERICAN CITIZEN a domestic terrorist in trying to cover up the crime.

Bald faced liar. “We were using the best information we had at the time.” She had access
to the videos and the federal agents’ body cameras videos.

Call it what it is Trump’s war on American people on “the streets of Minneapolis.