MAGA CNN commentator Brad Todd admitted Monday that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem spread a wild falsehood in the aftermath of a federal immigration agent fatally shooting 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
Todd called out Noem's baseless claims that Pretti had "brandished" a weapon despite video taken by witnesses showing the opposite.
"If the Second Amendment says that you have the right to keep and bear arms, which means you can have it anywhere you are legally and lawfully allowed to be, unless you've proven to be a threat to yourself or others already," Todd said.
"I think you also have to go back to what Kristi Noem said yesterday, that he was 'brandishing' the weapon. That's absolutely not true. Unless it happened before the video we saw then. He was not brandishing the weapon," Todd added. "And that's a pretty key fact of how law enforcement are going to treat you. Now, he did have a right to be carrying in the time it is inadvisable to be engaging with law enforcement while you are carrying, unless you're going to be telling them up front that you have a permit and you are carrying. So that's inadvisable. It doesn't get you shot. The penalty for doing something inadvisable should not be to get you shot. However, when you introduce a gun to a confrontation with the law enforcement officers and you introduced that before you get there, you have to be aware of the fact that that changes their calculus and risk."