CBP Chief Defends Throwing Woman Face Down in Snow: “De-Escalation”

Government

The heads of Customs and Border Protection and ICE were grilled by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Thursday about the conduct of federal agents. Republican Senator Rand Paul called out the agency heads for what happened on Minneapolis’s streets just prior to Alex Pretti’s killing, specifically a video of agents shoving a woman face down on the ground. CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott equivocated, saying that pushing a woman to the ground “can be” considered a de-

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