New York Times: Federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday fatally shot a 37-year-old man, the second person to be shot and killed in the city during a ramped-up immigration enforcement effort by the Trump administration, the authorities said…
Washington Post: Video footage from bystanders raised questions about the Department of Homeland Security’s account of what happened moments before the fatal shooting…
CNN: New video obtained by CNN shows the moments right before a Border Patrol agent shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Saturday. The Department of Homeland Security said the man had a handgun and “violently resisted” when agents tried to disarm him. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said videos show that their recount is “nonsense” and “lies.”…
Politico: The killing of Alex Pretti by a Border Patrol agent exacerbated tensions still boiling from the shooting earlier this month of Renee Good and led to renewed calls from the city and state’s Democratic leadership for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to withdraw and wind down its aggressive enforcement campaign in the Twin Cities.
“We need the Court to act to stop this Surge before yet another resident dies because of Operation Metro Surge,” lawyers for the state and cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul said late Saturday in an urgent filing with U.S. District Judge Kate Menendez, who is weighing a demand to block the Department of Homeland Security’s operation altogether…
CNN: It remains to be seen how the country will react to Pretti’s killing. But what’s clear is that Americans are very much predisposed to believe ICE goes too far. And the details suggest we could be seeing a repeat of what followed in the aftermath of Good’s killing, when already-negative views of ICE hardened and expanded.
For one, the administration has again leapt to defend the federal agents involved and attack the person killed in ways that are premature and strain credulity, at best…
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