Protesters lay siege to Minnesota hotel in chaotic scene amid unrest in wake of Alex Pretti shooting

Swarms of anti-ICE protesters tried to storm the Twin Cities The hotel where federal agents suspected Alex Pretti was staying amid growing unrest following the fatal shooting.

Chaos unfolded outside the Home Suites by Hilton Hotel in Minneapolis on Sunday night; It comes just a day after Pretti, a 37-year-old critical care nurse, was fatally shot while being detained by Border Patrol agents in the sanctuary city.

Protesters broke windows and spray-painted the hotel’s façade in jaw-dropping videos of the heated demonstration. Others were marching in front of the building, chanting slogans.

The crowd descended on the scene around 9pm, most wearing masks and banging on trash cans and bells.

Someone vandalized the glass window at the entrance of the Hilton with the words ‘ICE OUT OF MPLS’ written in bright red spray paint.

A person beating a garbage can was carrying a banner that read ‘No justice, no peace’.

The rioters allegedly tried to break in through the front door but were unsuccessful and continued the mayhem on the street. New York Post.

Frontlines Turning Point USA (TPUSA), the conservative nonprofit’s on-the-ground news service, wrote that the alarming scene at X continued for more than an hour without police intervention.

A member of the press raised his hands when approached by police officers at the demonstration

ICU nurse Alex Pretti was shot and killed while being detained by ICE agents on Saturday.

However, authorities eventually intervened, brought the crowd under control and dispersed. Protesters on the far left use flares and tear gas.

Video taken from the scene shows at least two people involved in the incident being detained by federal agents.

A federal agent was seen bleeding from his face as he tried to calm the situation. New York Post reported.

It’s unclear whether any ICE agents actually stayed at the hotel.

The Hilton where Sunday night’s protest took place is just minutes away from the University of Minnesota campus.

This demonstration came after President Donald Trump weighed in on Pretti’s death.

The commander-in-chief told The Wall Street Journal: ‘I don’t like the shooting. I don’t like this.

‘But I don’t like it when someone shows up at a protest and they have a very powerful, fully loaded gun, plus two magazines full of bullets. This doesn’t look good either.”

Pretti died during an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis. Officers claimed he approached them with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun.

The president signaled his willingness to withdraw immigration enforcement officials from Minneapolis and said his administration would investigate Pretti’s deadly attack.

“We’re looking, we’re reviewing everything, and we’re going to come out determined,” Trump told the Journal. ‘We will leave at some point.’

An armed agent confronts protesters trying to disperse the crowd outside the hotel

At Sunday’s demonstration, a protester carried a banner reading ‘No justice, no peace’

Meanwhile, Trump called on Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, and ‘ALL Democratic Governors and Mayors in the United States to formally cooperate with the Trump Administration to enforce our Nation’s Laws rather than resisting and fanning the flames of Division, Chaos, and Violence.’

Truth Social continued its mission by ordering Walz and Frey to ‘turn over to federal authorities all Illegal Criminal Aliens currently incarcerated in State Jails and Prisons.’

Trump also announced that he wants Congress to pass legislation ending sanctuary cities, citing it as the “root cause of all these problems.”

“American cities should be Safe Havens ONLY for Law-Abiding American Citizens, not for illegal Alien Criminals who break our Nation’s Laws,” Trump wrote.

The Daily Mail has reached out to ICE for comment.