A senior Justice Department official struck a notably more cautious tone on Monday than the Department of Homeland Security had one day earlier over the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen who was killed by a Border Patrol agent during an enforcement operation in Minnesota.

One day after the shooting of Pretti, who was armed during a physical confrontation with Customs and Border Protection agents Saturday morning, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche emphasized the need for restraint even as other Trump administration officials publicly assigned blame to Pretti and framed the shooting as necessary to stop a broader deadly attack on federal agents.