This podcast episode went off the rails when you assumed facts not in evidence, namely that Pretti got between ICE and their target. They didn't apprehend anyone that day on that street and were not seeking to apprehend anyone immediately there in that scrum. What they clearly did (the federal agents) was follow one or two guys TO the civilians on the side of the road and, well, I won't assume they attacked for no reason, but you should not be assuming or looking to create an "operation" for him to somehow "impede" by standing *where he had been all along* -- a good distance from where the agents had just been -- down and across the street. In seconds they ran up and across the street and attacked both physically and chemically everyone standing there. Alex Pretti was likely thus blinded by their chemical spray and simply trying to cope with that, after being sprayed while helping another bystander off the ground.
If the agents had identified that they were trying to apprehend anyone there in that immediate ~50 feet(?), it might be different; so I wonder why you all are trying to create a scenario that simply did not happen. It's one thing to be nuanced, another completely to create your own situation and assume your own facts from there. If you were simply making up hypotheticals, you should have said so, but this episode assumes facts not in evidence and feels like bad faith from a group that I expect better from.
