A 51-year-old US citizen shot by federal immigration officer. What we know.
Please note another US Citizen is shot and killed during Minneapolis immigration crackdown, National Guard activated.
A federal immigration officer shot and killed a man Saturday in Minneapolis, drawing hundreds of protesters onto the frigid streets and ratcheting up tensions in a city already shaken by another fatal shooting weeks earlier.
Family members identified the man who was killed as Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse who had protested President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in his city. After the shooting, an angry crowd gathered and protesters clashed with federal immigration officers, who wielded batons and deployed flash bangs.
Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement that federal officers were conducting an operation and fired “defensive shots” after a man with a handgun approached them and “violently resisted” when officers tried to disarm him. The officer who shot the man is an eight-year Border Patrol veteran, federal officials said.
In bystander videos of the shooting that emerged soon after, Pretti is seen with a phone in his hand but none appears to show him with a visible weapon.
O’Hara said police believe the man was a “lawful gun owner with a permit to carry.”
Trump said the governor and mayor are “are inciting Insurrection, with their pompous, dangerous, and arrogant rhetoric.”
Trump, a Republican, said the governor and mayor are “are inciting Insurrection, with their pompous, dangerous, and arrogant rhetoric.”
Pretti was shot just over a mile from where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good on Jan. 7, sparking widespread protests.
Analysis
Expected Bullshit from Racist Idiot Stephen Miller
This Is a Good Angle
Ice Agent Claps
Total Bullshit
Uglier by the Hour
Lead DHS Attorney
BREAKING NEWS (NYT): Lead DHS Attorney From First Trump Administration—Repeat, *Trump Administration*—Confirms That What America Is Now Experiencing Is Lawless, Premeditatedly Cruel Fascism
Homeland Security Summoned to Congress
A Nice Database
Marine Veteran Speaks Up
Statement of Support from the NRA
The NYT has the best coverage by far. Here is a free link to Minneapolis Live Updates: Man Killed by Federal Agents Was Holding a Phone, Not a Gun
LIFO Last in First Out Updates
Some high-profile gun rights activists and groups bristled on Saturday at government officials’ claims that federal agents may have been justified in killing a Minneapolis man during a protest because he was carrying a pistol.
The right to bear arms in public has been a mainstay of the gun rights movement.
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John Mitnick, who once was the head attorney at the Department of Homeland Security in the first Trump administration, criticized his former agency on Saturday night. “I am enraged and embarrassed by DHS’s lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty,” he wrote on social media.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota on Saturday, blaming him and other Democratic elected officials for allowing “lawlessness.” In the letter, Bondi demanded that state officials turn over records of welfare recipients; that local officials “repeal sanctuary policies;” and that the state turn over voter records to the Department of Justice. “The time has come for state and local officials in your state to change course,” she wrote. It was uncertain whether the letter was sent before or after the shooting.
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Hours after the Pretti shooting, Representative Andrew Garbarino, Republican of New York and the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, formally requested that the heads of ICE, Customs and Border Patrol, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services testify at a full hearing. Republicans have been generally supportive of the Trump administration’s immigration policies and have conducted few formal oversight efforts.
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Mary Moriarty, the elected prosecutor in Hennepin County, which includes Minneapolis, said in a video statement that her office, along with state officials, was “committed to conducting an objective investigation into this case.” She encouraged people with information that might help that investigation to submit materials through an online portal.
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Five Twin Cities suburbs filed a legal brief on Saturday asking a federal judge to impose limits on how federal immigration agents carry out their work. The brief is part of a lawsuit filed by the state of Minnesota and the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul that challenges the legality of the ICE surge and the tactics of federal agents. A hearing in the case is set for Monday.
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Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, said in a statement that Senate Democrats would vote to block a bipartisan spending package that would fund the Department of Homeland Security and other parts of the government. The Senate is set to take up the measure, which includes $10 billion for ICE, ahead of a shutdown deadline at the end of January. “Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included,” he said.
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Gov. Janet Mills of Maine has requested a meeting with President Trump to ask him to remove federal immigration agents from her state after a second fatal shooting by federal officers in Minnesota. Immigration agents started focusing on Maine this week, the Department of Homeland Security said on Wednesday.
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Kristi Noem called the victim of the shooting a domestic terrorist. “This individual who came with weapons and ammunition to stop a law enforcement operation of federal law enforcement officers committed an act of domestic terrorism,” she said. “That’s the facts.” Earlier in the day, Stephen Miller described the man as a domestic terrorist as well.
This administration is truly a pack of deranged liars.
But that’s non-news, just the facts.
In the news, looks like another government shutdown is on deck. Republicans will not have 60 votes to kill any filibuster .
