I am a former police officer and a private investigator with over fifty years experience specializing in use of force cases. This is not ideology. This is experience. I had planned to wait for the official reports. They will have more video footage and more witness statements. But the essential facts already seem clear. This analysis is based on incomplete information, and it does not need to be perfect to be accurate. Alex Pretti opposed ICE and deportation policy. Fine. He had every right to protest. What he did not have was the right to riot. He attended a protest that devolved into violence. Pretti armed himself with a legally carried 9mm SIG Sauer pistol and spare magazines. Most people who carries semi automatic pistols also carry an extra magazine or two.  There is nothing unusual about that .  Carrying a gun was not the problem. Deciding to physically intervene in an arrest was. ICE agents were lawfully arresting a woman who had become physically aggressive. Prett...