from WNYC studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Monday, January 26th.

Here's how the Wall Street Journal editorial page has reacted to the killing of Alex

Preddy by ICE agents in Minneapolis.

The Wall Street Journal, owned by Rupert Murdoch, who also owns Fox News, right?

The journal editorial headline is, Time for Ice to Pause in Minneapolis.

It says in part, there isn't much heart in immigration and customs enforcement,

ICE. The Saturday shooting of Alex Preti as he lay on the ground surrounded by ICE agents is the

worst incident to date in what is becoming a moral and political debacle for the Trump presidency.

This is how it looks to us, writes the journal

editorial board. Pretti attempted foolishly to assist a woman who had been pepper sprayed by agents.

Multiple agents then tackled Pretty, and he had a phone in one hand as he lay on the ground.

An agent discovered a concealed gun on Preddy and disarmed him.

An agent then shot Prattie and multiple shots followed. It says the Trump administration spin on

this simply isn't believable. Stephen Miller, the political architect of the mass deportation

policy, called Prattie a domestic

terrorist. He was a nurse without a criminal record. Christy Noem, the Homeland Security Secretary,

said the fact that he carried a gun, and she said two magazines, meant he, quote, arrived at the

scene to inflict maximum damage on individuals and to kill law enforcement."

But he had a license to carry a gun, adds the journal, which was legally concealed,

not carried in his hand as some claimed. He was carrying his phone.

To hear the ardent gun rights advocates of the Trump administration claim he had malicious intentions because he carried a concealed weapon is bizarre.

It says, Pretty made a tragic mistake by interfering with ICE agents, but that warranted arrest, not a death sentence.

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