"With the White House under intense pressure amid a fierce backlash against Pretti's fatal shooting, Bovino rather than being lionised has become an early casualty of the Trump administration's efforts to change its posture. Officials revealed that he was to be withdrawn from his frontline role in the midwestern city. He was expected to be pulled out as Tom Homan, Trump's border czar, was sent in to oversee the operation on the ground."
"In a startling illustration of the extent of his sudden defenestration, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday suspended Bovino's access to his social media account, which he had used as a vehicle to publicise his militant commitment to Trump's anti-immigration agenda. Bovino's comments on the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti propelled him to a new level of notoriety. Bovino had put himself in the vanguard of the administration's initial aggressive pushback against the revulsion sparked by Pretti's killing by claiming that the dead man had intended to massacre law enforcement agents."
Gregory Bovino, 55, a senior US Border Patrol official, gained prominence leading immigration crackdowns in major US cities. After border patrol officers fatally shot 37-year-old American citizen Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Bovino made provocative, unapologetic public statements defending officers and alleging Pretti intended to massacre law enforcement. As mounting video evidence undermined his claims, Bovino doubled down on national television talkshows while acknowledging an investigation was under way. The White House, under intense pressure from a fierce public backlash, stripped him of his frontline role in Minneapolis and dispatched Tom Homan to oversee operations on the ground. The Department of Homeland Security suspended Bovino's social media access after he used the account to publicise a militant commitment to the administration's anti-immigration agenda.
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