The Justice Department has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting of Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis resident killed Saturday by Border Patrol officers, federal officials said Friday.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Monday that the actions of Alex Pretti before he was fatally shot by a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis on Saturday did not constitute domestic terrorism. “I don’t think anybody thinks that they were comparing what happened on Saturday to the legal definition of domestic terrorism,

Todd Blanche suggested to NBC News that Pretti, the Veterans Affairs nurse killed by a Border Patrol agent Saturday, was impeding federal officers when he was thrown to the ground, beaten, and then shot dead—a chilling encounter captured on video.

A Fox News host grilled Deputy AG Todd Blanche over reports of internal frustrations about DHS officials calling Alex Pretti a domestic terrorist.