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Trump says his administration is ‘reviewing everything’ after Pretti’s killing
Donald Trump is under pressure to launch a full-scale, independent investigation into the second murder by federal agents in Minneapolis in as many weeks and to withdraw ICE agents from the Minneapolis area. He spoke to the Wall Street Journal in a five-minute phone conversation Sunday.
The president was reportedly asked twice whether the federal agent who killed Pretti had acted appropriately. He replied: “We are looking, we are reviewing everything and we will come out with determination.”
He also told the newspaper: “I don’t like any shooting. I don’t like it.” He added: “But I don’t like it when someone shows up at a protest and they have a high-powered, fully loaded gun and both magazines full of bullets. That doesn’t work either.” Video recorded by witnesses of Pretti’s killing shows the 37-year-old registered nurse holding a phone, not a gun, when she was tackled and shot; This directly contradicts claims by senior Trump administration officials that he threatened to “massacre” officers.
Trump also signaled that he would eventually withdraw his agents from Minneapolis, although he did not specify a time frame in the interview. “We’re going to leave at some point. We did it, they did a phenomenal job,” he told the WSJ. “We’re going to leave a different group of people there because of financial fraud,” Trump said.
The Trump administration targeted Minnesota last year over allegations of fraud, specifically going after the state’s Somali population and with the president making openly racist remarks. Approximately 84,000 people of Somali descent live in Minnesota and -most some of whom are U.S. citizens or legal residents. Trump used a fraud scandal over the theft of federal funds for welfare programs in Minnesota to justify sending agents into the state, mostly from ICE.
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Tim Walz calls on Trump to remove agents in Minnesota: ‘You can stop this’
Edward Helmore
Minnesota governor Tim Walz called on Donald Trump on Sunday to withdraw federal agents from Minnesota, a day after U.S. Border Patrol agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse who was monitoring a crackdown on immigrants.
“What’s the plan, Donald Trump?” Walz asked. press conference. “What do we need to do to get these federal agents out of our state?”
“President Trump, you can end this today. Take these people back; do humane, focused, effective immigration control; you have all of our support to do it,” Walz said. “Please show some kindness, pull these people away.”
Walz, who is not seeking re-election this year, made an impassioned appeal to the US public, many of whom are torn between supporting immigration control and opposing its implementation domestically under the Trump administration.
“Which side do you want to be on?” Walz asked. “The side of an all-powerful federal government that can kill, injure, threaten, and kidnap its citizens from the streets, or the side of a nurse who died in a VA hospital while witnessing such a governmentreferring to Pretti.
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Trump says his administration is ‘reviewing everything’ after Pretti’s killing
Donald Trump is under pressure to launch a full-scale, independent investigation into the second murder by federal agents in Minneapolis in as many weeks and to withdraw ICE agents from the Minneapolis area. He spoke to the Wall Street Journal in a five-minute phone conversation Sunday.
The president was reportedly asked twice whether the federal agent who killed Pretti had acted appropriately. He replied: “We are looking, we are reviewing everything and we will come out with determination.”
He also told the newspaper: “I don’t like any shooting. I don’t like it.” He added: “But I don’t like it when someone shows up at a protest and they have a high-powered, fully loaded gun and both magazines full of bullets. That doesn’t work either.” Video recorded by witnesses of Pretti’s killing shows the 37-year-old registered nurse holding a phone, not a gun, when she was tackled and shot; This directly contradicts claims by senior Trump administration officials that he threatened to “massacre” officers.
Trump also signaled that he would eventually withdraw his agents from Minneapolis, although he did not specify a time frame in the interview. “We’re going to leave at some point. We did it, they did a phenomenal job,” he told the WSJ. “We’re going to leave a different group of people there because of financial fraud,” Trump said.
The Trump administration targeted Minnesota last year over allegations of fraud, specifically going after the state’s Somali population and with the president making openly racist remarks. Approximately 84,000 people of Somali descent live in Minnesota and -most some of whom are U.S. citizens or legal residents. Trump used a fraud scandal over the theft of federal funds for welfare programs in Minnesota to justify sending agents into the state, mostly from ICE.
Republicans call for investigation after Pretti murder
Adam Fulton
A growing number of Republicans are pushing for a deeper investigation into federal immigration tactics in the wake of the deadly shooting in Minnesota. Alex Pretti- It’s a sign that the Trump administration’s accounting of events may face bipartisan scrutiny.
Republican chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Andrew GarbarinoHe sought testimony from leaders of ICE, Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, saying “my number one priority is keeping Americans safe,” the Associated Press reported.
Some other Republicans in Congress have pressed for more information. Michael McCaul Texas and senators Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Bill Cassidy from Louisiana, susan collins Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
Their comments, in addition to concerns expressed by several Republican governors, echo a party’s concerns about federal agents Beautiful.
Alex Pretti’s family released a statement on Saturday evening saying they were “heartbroken but also outraged” after US President Donald Trump and his officials referred to Pretti as the “gunman” who approached US Border Patrol officers.
“The disgusting lies told by the administration about our son are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex was clearly not holding a gun when he was attacked by Trump’s murderous and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head as he tries to protect the woman ICE pushed down while being pepper sprayed,” the family statement said. “Please reveal the truth about our son. He was a good man.”
Two witnesses to the murder said in affidavits that Pretti did not brandish a gun when he approached federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday. A witness said federal agents caught up with him after he came to help someone they had pushed to the ground.
The Trump administration’s unfounded claims about what happened are also directly refuted by public video. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Pretti was shot because he was “brandishing” a gun.
Widely circulated video shows half a dozen officers spraying Pretti, who was holding a phone but not a gun, with a chemical agent and then taking him to the ground.
You can read more about how Trump officials continue to lie about Pretti’s killing in this analysis piece, despite video evidence showing exactly what happened on Saturday.
Judge set to hear arguments about Minnesota’s immigration crackdown following murders by federal agents
After the murder, we restart our live broadcast. Alex is beautiful by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis on Saturday as pressure mounts on the Trump administration to fully investigate the deadly attack at a time of growing bipartisan opposition to ICE’s presence in Minnesota.
A federal judge will hear arguments later today over whether he should halt a brutal immigration crackdown in Minnesota that led to the deaths of two 37-year-old U.S. citizens by government agents in less than a month.
status Minnesota and cities Minneapolis And St. Paul A lawsuit was filed against the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, earlier this month, five days after mother of three and award-winning poet Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE officer, sparking outrage and protests in Minneapolis.
They are asking U.S. District Judge Kathleen Menendez to order federal law enforcement agencies to reduce the number of agents in Minnesota — about 3,000 — to the levels they were before ICE activated. Last month, the so-called “Operation Subway Surge” took place in the Minneapolis area.
The influx of federal agents, roughly five to one on the Minneapolis police force, has caused terror in communities across the state, with reports of legal monitors being taken away without charge, schoolchildren being tear-gassed and armed officers attacking daycares, churches and mosques.
Speaking at a news conference yesterday, Democratic Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison said he and the cities were suing because of the “unprecedented nature of this surge.” What we are looking at now is a new abuse of the constitution. “Nobody can remember a time when we saw something like this.”
It was not clear before the hearing when the judge would decide. Justice Department lawyers called the lawsuit “legally frivolous” and said “Minnesota wants a veto over the enforcement of federal laws.”
