‘They murdered a man’: Whoopi Goldberg blasts Noem, Bovino over Alex Pretti shooting

The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg on Monday, January 26 criticised Kristi Noem and Greg Bovino following the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by the US Border Patrol officers in Minneapolis over the weekend. “They murdered a man,” moderator Whoopi Goldberg alleged at the start of the talk show’s latest episode, the first to air since Pretti was shot and killed Saturday morning in Minnesota. “They shot him 10 times. What the…” Goldberg continued, stopping short of using profanity to underline her anger.


Goldberg’s remarks followed footage captured over the weekend showing an officer shooting and killing Pretti, a VA nurse who was seen holding up a cell phone to film ICE activity in Minneapolis. Pretti’s death occurred 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.


Goldberg described the deaths of Pretti and Good as “two unjustified killings, two unlawful killings of two American citizens who were, by the way, watching out for their neighbor” before being killed. She concluded her remarks by looking into the camera and saying, “We all see it. And we see you for what you are. You all have blood on your hands.”

Earlier, Department of Homeland Security head Kristi Noem 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 surrounded by a group of agents after filming them and attempting to assist another person officers pushed to the ground.

About Whoopi Goldberg?

Whoopi Goldberg is an American actor, comedian, author, and television personality, best known as a long-time co-host of The View. She is one of the few entertainers to have achieved EGOT status, having won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony.

Born Caryn Johnson in New York City, Goldberg rose to prominence through acclaimed film roles in The Color Purple and Ghost. Beyond her work in film and television, she has been a prominent public voice on social and political issues for decades.