Exactly, ICE is not for inner city crowd control, ICE is like a SWAT team of commandos there for mostly real bad illegals, gangs, drug cartels, etc., and in every other city away from Frey and the bastard Walz, the local police work with them while they do their business. Walz & Co were actually sending out coordinated gangs of rowdies trying to endlessly obstruct and tie them up.
As to Pretti, his being shot really depends on various factors:
- Pretti was already establishing himself as a violent agitator and offender, not a good way to engender the confidence of any cop.
- Pretti was armed. Another bad way to go into a brawl with police.
- Pretti's gun may have gone off inadvertently in the melee; if so, officers there heard a gun shot and their natural instinct would be to shoot back in self-defense.
- There was like half a dozen there in the scrum, apparently Pretti was putting up quit a fight still refusing to cooperate and someone apparently yelled "gun," or something like that and to a cop, that is like yelling DANGER, and 1-2 cops fired back in self defense, so we can only assume Pretti was harmless and would have remainded so, his actions giving nothing to build that confidence on, and under the circumstances unfortunately, ICE had no choice but to defend themselves first then ask questions later.
I'll be interested to hear whether Pretti's gun had discharged, perhaps in an effort to get it off his person, but the bottom line is
don't brawl and fight with any cop, especially if you are carrying, at the very least it is resisting arrest and assault with a deadly weapon, and it is a good way to get yourself killed, because police will always assume the worst if they are to stay alive.