Another tragedy in Minneapolis.
A team at MPR News reports that Alex Pretti, 37, a U.S. citizen whom a federal immigration agent shot and killed Saturday, was an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center and is being remembered as kind, caring and calm.
Once again, video evidence and eyewitness accounts contradict the Department of Homeland Security’s narrative about what preceded the shooting, the MPR team reports. A separate team at The Wall Street Journal takes a closer look, sharing and analyzing a series of video clips.
Some Republican leaders are now publicly questioning the administration’s approach. They include members of Congress, as Meredith Lee Hill reports in Politico, and Minnesota legislators, report Walker Orenstein and Sydney Kashiwagi of The Minnesota Star Tribune.
"It’s clear that Operation Metro Surge is causing more harm than good," Minnesota Rep. Nolan West said on social media yesterday. "It puts law enforcement officers’ lives at risk, and it feeds the chaos destroying our state."
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara sounded concern for his own officers on "Face the Nation" yesterday, Kaia Hubbard of CBS News reports. "This is not sustainable," O'Hara said. "[The problem isn't that] enforcement is happening, it's clearly the manner in which these things are happening."
Meanwhile, executives from more than five dozen of Minnesota’s largest businesses — including Target, General Mills and UnitedHealth Group — signed an open letter calling for the "immediate de-escalation" of the violence in their state, reports Victor Stefanescu and Christopher Snowbeck, also of The Minnesota Star Tribune.
"No one wants this situation to continue and we should all work to move toward peaceful de-escalation and resolution," the letter reads.
Stephen Collinson of CNN has an analysis worth reading on the wider implications of the situation.
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