“For them, a camera is just as dangerous as a gun,” Ana Navarro said, while Alyssa Farah Griffin called the moment “a tide shift” to wake Americans up.

*The View *cohosts emotionally condemn government over Alex Pretti’s death: ‘You all have blood on your hands’

"For them, a camera is just as dangerous as a gun," Ana Navarro said, while Alyssa Farah Griffin called the moment "a tide shift" to wake Americans up.

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- *The View* cohosts have strongly condemned the shooting death of 37-year-old Minnesota nurse Alex Pretti.

- Whoopi Goldberg told officials they have "blood on" their hands after Pretti was shot and killed over the weekend.

- "We have our eyes and we have our ears, and we know what we saw," former Donald Trump White House staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin said.

As America reels over the shooting death of 37-year-old Alex Pretti at the hands of United States Border Patrol officers,* **The View* cohosts united Monday to strongly condemn the government over the deadly incident.

"They murdered a man," alleged moderator Whoopi Goldberg at the top of the talk show's latest episode, the first new installment since Pretti was shot and killed Saturday morning in Minnesota. "They shot him 10 times. What the..." the 70-year-old continued in her passionate address, stopping just short of using profanity to emphasize her frustration.

Goldberg's emotion came after an officer was captured on camera over the weekend shooting and killing Pretti, a VA nurse who was shown holding up a cell phone camera to film ICE activity in Minneapolis. Pretti's death came weeks after another Minnesota resident, 37-year-old mother Renee Nicole Good, was shot and killed by an ICE agent while attempting to drive her vehicle away from a protest.

"The people that seem to be bringing the violence are the ICE agents themselves. I know there are good ICE agents. The problem is they're currently recruiting people using imagery from single-shooter games, giving them this vibe that they're coming to get rid of vermin, and they're also telling them they have immunity," panelist Sara Haines added. "They're not even getting investigated properly. The administration has spoken and set the tone for this. That's what we're seeing right now. That's why people are being killed completely unjustly."**

Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, and Alyssa Farah Griffin on 'The View'.

Ana Navarro, a Republican who has long spoken out against the Donald Trump administration, stressed that Pretti — who had a gun and a permit to carry a concealed handgun — was simply "brandishing a camera" in the moments before his death.

"This government does something that I am not used to saying about a U.S. government. It lies to the citizens, it lies to the people. So, for them, a camera is just as dangerous as a gun," Navarro said. "What they don't want is for people to see the truth."

Legal expert and former federal prosecutor Sunny Hostin took a few moments to collect her thoughts, fighting back tears as she expressed how the developments made her feel across the last few days.

"My mental state today, after spending the weekend watching these videos over and over again, is fragile, just because I always believed in the rule of law. I've dedicated my life to enforcing the rule of law, studying the law," Hostin observed, later elaborating that "to see the lawlessness by the United States government is deeply disturbing.

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She called Pretti and Good's deaths "two unjustified killings, two unlawful killings of two American citizens who were, by the way, watching out for their neighbor" prior to being killed.

Hostin called this moment in history "an inflection point" and predicted that Pretti's death "may indeed lead to some kind of change" after witnessing a "groundswell" of Americans from both sides of the political aisle speaking out against the shooting.

"This is incompetence by law enforcement, and it's cruelty by law enforcement," said former Trump White House administration staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin. She felt that the government's attempted defense of the agent's actions pointed to violations of several rights, including those outlined in the First, Second, and Fourth amendments.

She asked, "Do we stand for anything if not for half of the Bill of Rights at this moment?" before noting that, with millions of Americans snowed in and "glued to TVs" in the wake of a major storm front that swept the country, "The administration can say whatever the hell it wants, we have our eyes and we have our ears, and we know what we saw."

Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, Joy Behar, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Whoopi Goldberg for 'The View'.

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Griffin continued, "This is a tide shift. I'm seeing it from every corner. My least political friends, celebrities who never weigh in, politicians, a good number of Republicans, are coming out. I want to see far more saying this needs a thorough investigation. It's devastating and I hope people will wake up."

Goldberg closed the segment with a condemnation of those defending the agent who first fired on Pretti.

"I don't know what you're investigating if you're not investigating the straight-up murder, the straight-up murder. This is the second one," the EGOT-winning actress said. "I don't understand what you're investigating. You see it. You're not blind. And if you don't see it, it's willfull, because you're not looking. You can't sit by this. Kristi Noem, you can't justify this."

She looked into the camera as she delivered a final point, reminding officials, "We all see it. And we see you for what you are. You all have blood on your hands."

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Department of Homeland Security head Kristi Noem earlier alleged that "officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect acted violently," forcing the officer to fire "defensive shots" at Pretti while he was swarmed by a group of agents after filming them and attempting to assist another person the officers pushed to the ground.

Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller called Pretti a "would-be assassin" and alleged that he "tried to murder federal law enforcement" in the moment, despite footage showing Pretti standing near officers holding only a cell phone, with one agent spraying a substance at Pretti while his back was turned.

Many have contradicted the analysis of government figures, with footage from the scene also appearing to show an officer removing a concealed weapon from Pretti, before another opens fire on Pretti while he faced the ground.

Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada has even called for Noem's impeachment from her post.

“Kristi Noem has been an abject failure leading the Department of Homeland Security for the last year — and the abuses of power we’re seeing from ICE are the latest proof that she has lost control over her own department and staff,” Rosen said in a statement to the Associated Press.

Pretti's family has spoken out against the government's framing of their son's image, criticizing in a statement the "sickening lies told about our son by the administration," calling them "reprehensible and disgusting."

“Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man," the family's statement said.

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