Why did ICE agents continue shooting at Alex Pretti and Renee Good after it was clear that they were not threats?

At least part of the reason is that they enjoyed shooting at a human being!

5.10.1941 “There’s still something else I have to tell you. I was in fact also present at the enormous mass killings the day before yesterday. For the first truckload my hand trembled slightly when shooting, but one gets used to it. By the time the tenth truck arrived I was already aiming steadily and fired surely at the many women, children and infants. Bear in mind that I also have two babies at home, to whom these hordes would do the same, if not ten times worse. The death we gave them was a nice, short death, compared to the hellish torture meted out to thousands upon thousands in the dungeons of the GPU. Infants flew in a wide arch through the air and we blew them away while still in flight, before they then fell into the pit and the water. Let’s get rid of this brood which has plunged the whole of Europe into war and is still mongering in America until it drags them into the war as well. Hitler’s words are coming true, what he once said before the war began: if Jewry believes to be able to incite a war in Europe again, it won’t be the Jews who’ll triumph, but it will herald the end of Jewry in Europe. […] M.[ogilev] has now lost a number with 3 zeroes, but that’s of no consequence here. I’m already looking forward to it, and many here are saying that when we return home, then it’s the turn of our local Jews.

Letters sent by the police secretary Walter Mattner, an administrative officer for the SS and Police Garrison Commander at Mogilev, to his wife (excerpts), 22 September 1941 – 19 April 1942
From: https://lnkd.in/gd4wgSgf

EHRI Online Course in Holocaust Studies https://lnkd.in/gXP4Syt7

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