Trump softens tone on Minneapolis violence amid calls for accountability

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Karoline Leavitt is the White House press secretary.

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Trump's immigration crackdown led to two fatal shootings by federal officers in Minnesota this month.

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Renee Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE officer during an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis.

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Trump is deploying Homan to the Minneapolis region.

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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, enacted last year, included $75 billion in supplemental funding for ICE.

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Alex Pretti and Renee Good were fatally shot in Minneapolis by federal immigration authorities in January.

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Alex Pretti was fatally shot by U.S. Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis.

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Bondi announced in a Wednesday post to X that 16 rioters had been arrested in Minnesota for allegedly "assaulting" federal law enforcement agents.

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Federal officers shot and killed two people in Minneapolis.

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Federal agents shot Alex Pretti after discovering he was carrying a gun for which he held a valid permit.

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Greg Bovino is the chief of the U.S. Border Patrol.

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Tom Homan is the U.S. border czar.

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Jacob Frey is the Mayor of Minneapolis.

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The U.S. Department of Justice has sued roughly two dozen states for access to voter data/rolls.

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Agent Ross repeatedly shot and killed Renee Good.

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Unnamed federal agents repeatedly shot and killed Alex Pretti.

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Renee Good and her car had already passed Agent Ross by the time he fired the second and third shots at her.

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Alex Pretti was lying motionless on the ground when he was repeatedly shot.

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State and local prosecutorial authorities have not publicly stated that Alex Pretti is a domestic terrorist.

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State and local prosecutorial authorities routinely partner with federal authorities on investigations like the Pretti and Good shootings.

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The Trump administration has barred state and local prosecutorial authorities from accessing the evidence in the Pretti and Good investigations.

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Armed people attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.

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In September 2025, the Trump administration issued National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 (NSPM-7), titled "Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence."

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NSPM-7 was followed by an implementing memorandum from the Attorney General.

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Tom Joscelyn and Ryan Goodman authored an article titled "The Smearing of Alex Pretti and NSPM-7," published January 26, 2026.

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Trump's Justice Department is fighting a state lawsuit seeking to expel immigration agents from Minneapolis.

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Homan's assignment is to control the activities of thousands of ICE and Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis.

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Three hours after his first Monday post, Trump praised Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for calling him.

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Homan has no formal leadership role at either immigration agency.

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Noem and Bovino both gave public statements after Pretti's killing.

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Those statements by Noem and Bovino were quickly proven false.

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Republican allies praised Trump for helping to calm the situation in Minneapolis.

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Amanda Carpenter is a former GOP Senate aide.

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Carpenter is now a researcher with the nonprofit group Protect Democracy.

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Federal judges reviewing specific cases have often found Trump's assertion to be false.

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Good was shot three times by the ICE officer.

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Before shooting Alex Pretti, Border Patrol agents confiscated/removed the pistol he was carrying.

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Trump quickly posted a photo of a gun after Pretti's shooting.

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Trump did a phone interview with The Wall Street Journal.

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The Wall Street Journal is owned by Rupert Murdoch.

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For decades prior to Trump's second term, it was common practice for such shootings to be investigated by the Department of Justice.

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The White House called conservative talk show host Erick Erickson on Sunday evening.

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Earlier that Sunday, Erickson had recommended Trump replace Noem and Bovino with Homan.

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Homan has decades of experience with ICE.

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That relay led to a phone call to Erickson from a senior White House aide.

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Miller did not respond to a HuffPost query.

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Those fraud investigations concerned social service programs, particularly involving Somali-American immigrants.

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The FBI would not share information about Good's shooting with local authorities.

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Donald Trump lost Minnesota in all three of his presidential elections.

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Pam Bondi is the U.S. Attorney General.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi demanded that Minnesota turn over its voter registration data/file to the DOJ.

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This demand was set as one of the conditions for Trump to end his deployment of immigration agents in Minnesota.

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This was the second time this month the administration blamed a victim for their own death within hours of a killing.

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The administration did not open an independent investigation into Pretti's death.

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Video/footage of Alex Pretti's killing emerged and circulated publicly.

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Government justifications of the lethal force used prompted blowback among staunch Republican supporters and conservative groups.

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Congressional negotiations to prevent another government shutdown were upended over ICE funding.

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A Trump-appointed judge blocked the administration from destroying evidence in the case.

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Minneapolis residents and officials are demanding justice after the shooting.

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For the first time, surveys show a plurality of Americans disapprove of the administration's enforcement tactics.

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1 in 3 Republicans surveyed expressed concern the enforcement tactics have grown too harsh.

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Pretti was shot 10 times at close range by ICE agents.

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Multiple videos of the incident appear to show Pretti attempting to aid a fellow civilian who had been pushed by an ICE officer.

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Federal/ICE agents wrestled Alex Pretti to the ground.

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The videos that circulated on social media do not indicate he had brandished or was attempting to reach for his weapon.

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Bill Essayli is the assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles.

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The administration's decision to blame Pretti's death on his decision to bear arms drew harsh rebuke from 2nd Amendment advocates across the Republican Party.

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John Mitnick was the general counsel at the Department of Homeland Security during Trump's first term.

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Mitnick called for the president's impeachment and removal.

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Brian O'Hara is Minneapolis' police chief.

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Good was shot while in her car, shortly after dropping her son off at school.

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Noem and other senior administration officials justified Good's shooting within hours of her death by impugning her motives without producing substantive evidence.

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Demonstrations were held across the nation after the killing of Pretti.

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The administration has faced accusations of misrepresenting other facts to the public.

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The president confused Greenland with Iceland four times in a speech last week in Switzerland.

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On the same trip, Trump dismissed the role of NATO allies in the war in Afghanistan.

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NATO partner nations lost more than 1,000 soldiers over the course of the Afghanistan war.

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The remark has infuriated some of Washington's closest allies.

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Only when questioned by a conservative reporter on Fox News did Noem suggest error may have been at fault.

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Trump administration officials are retreating from their blanket defense of the Border Patrol agents who fatally shot a U.S. citizen on a Minneapolis street on Saturday.

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The retreat is part of a larger White House effort to reduce tensions after the shooting provoked widespread outrage.

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In Minneapolis, there were few signs of a reduction in the federal enforcement presence on the streets since the shooting.

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On Wednesday morning, protesters gathered outside the federal Whipple Building in Minneapolis, the epicenter of immigration activity in the city.

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Masked federal agents drove a steady stream of vehicles in and out of the Whipple Building on Wednesday morning.

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Richi Mead, an observer wearing a neon vest labeled "DON'T SHOOT," tracked federal vehicles entering and leaving the Whipple Building on Wednesday.

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A growing number of Republicans have joined Democrats in protesting the killing.

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem faces increasing criticism.

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Stephen Miller is the White House deputy chief of staff for policy and Homeland Security advisor.

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Senior officials have backtracked on their initial defense of the federal agents who fired the fatal shots.

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That statement, along with others made by Noem, were contradicted by cellphone videos.

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Video showed Alex Pretti was holding only a phone, not a gun, when agents pushed him to the ground and shot him.

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Top Los Angeles federal prosecutor Bill Essayli, who has doggedly supported Trump's agenda, faced blistering criticism from gun rights groups, including the NRA.

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On Wednesday, a CBP spokesperson disclosed that two Border Patrol agents involved in the shooting had been placed on administrative leave Saturday.

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Top Republicans in the White House have yet to announce any major rollback of their aggressive immigration enforcement tactics.

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The California Senate advanced legislation that would allow Californians to sue federal immigration agents over constitutional violations such as excessive force and unlawful searches.

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Kevin R. Johnson is a professor who specializes in immigration law at UC Davis.

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Hennepin County sheriff's deputies continued to provide security in the area.

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Demonstrators still showed up across the street.

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Encrypted neighborhood group chats continued to circulate information about possible sightings of immigration agents.

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Lucas Guttentag is a professor of law at Stanford University who specializes in immigration.

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Tom Homan met with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey) before his press conference.

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Christine Hebl, 45, dropped off a handwritten note at a memorial erected at the site in south Minneapolis where Pretti was killed.

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Pam Bondi sent a letter to Tim Walz.

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Tim Walz is the Democratic Governor of Minnesota.

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Steve Simon is Minnesota's Secretary of State.

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Steve Simon is a Democrat.

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Minnesota has rejected Bondi's demands.

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The Justice Department began requesting voter registration data from states in June 2025.

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According to the Brennan Center for Justice, the Justice Department's voter data requests now total 44 states and Washington, D.C.

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Minnesota is among the states from which the Justice Department has requested voter registration data.

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Eleven states, all run by Republicans, stated they would comply with the Justice Department's voter data request.

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Some states that refused the Justice Department's voter data request instead provided their publicly available voter file.

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Many of the states that refused the Justice Department's voter data request are run by Republicans.

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The states sued by the Justice Department over voter data include Minnesota, Georgia, Nevada, and New Hampshire.

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Georgia, Nevada, and New Hampshire are led by Republicans.

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On Jan. 14, a federal judge issued a ruling from the bench dismissing the Justice Department's case against Oregon.

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On Jan. 15, a federal judge issued an opinion dismissing the Justice Department's case against California.

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A federal judge dismissed the Justice Department's case against Georgia on Jan. 23 for being filed in the wrong jurisdiction.

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Justice Department lawyers have refused in court to state any reason they need the voter file data or what they will do with it.

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Elisabeth Frost is an attorney with the Elias Law Group.

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The Elias Law Group represents groups and individuals who have joined the voter file cases on the side of the states.

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Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon said on Newsmax in December that the effort could result in the removal of 100,000 voters from the rolls.

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The author states that legally registered citizens have already been purged from voter rolls in states complying with Trump's request for full voter file data.

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Donald Trump has issued a series of executive orders that purported to unilaterally alter election laws.

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The Constitution places the power to regulate elections in the hands of the states and Congress, not the president.

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Tobias Read is Oregon's Secretary of State.

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Tobias Read is a Democrat.

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Donald Trump reposted a graphic image showing a federal law enforcement officer's severed finger on his Truth Social account on Saturday.

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A protester in Minneapolis allegedly bit off a federal law enforcement officer's finger during clashes with anti-ICE demonstrators.

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Tricia McLaughlin, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary, shared the image of the officer's severed finger on X.

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Tricia McLaughlin posted photos of two individuals who appeared to be in custody in connection with the Minneapolis officer's injury.

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It is not clear which of the two individuals in McLaughlin's photos is accused of biting the officer's finger off.

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Authorities have not released further details about the alleged biting of the officer's finger.

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Protests in Minneapolis have intensified after the deaths of two US citizens during immigration enforcement operations.

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More than ten shots can be heard in the video of the Alex Jeffrey Pretti shooting.

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It is unclear how many federal agents fired their weapons during the shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti.

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Following the shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, officers sealed off nearby streets in Minneapolis.

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Officers deployed tear gas to push back demonstrators following the shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti.

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Reports said more than 100 federal agents were present at the scene of the Alex Jeffrey Pretti shooting.

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Alex Jeffrey Pretti's death is the second fatal shooting involving federal immigration agents in Minneapolis in less than three weeks.

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In another separate case, a man was shot in the leg while fleeing immigration officers.

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The meeting followed unrest in Minnesota after Alex Pretti's death.

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Pretti is the second individual to die in Minnesota during the immigration crackdown.

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Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act.

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America has endured intense political polarisation before.

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ICE was created after 9/11 as a specialised arm of the Department of Homeland Security.

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ICE was meant to enforce immigration laws and combat transnational criminal networks.

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ICE's annual budget in the past few years hovered around US$9 billion.

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Oversight structures kept ICE's power in check.

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Last year, Congress approved a spending package, part of the 'big beautiful bill', committing roughly an additional US$150 billion to immigration and border enforcement through 2029.

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The spending package increased ICE's annual budget to an average of about US$28 billion a year.

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Estimates suggest up to 14 million people are living in the country without legal status.

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Illegal immigration was a top concern during the previous election.

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Trump ran on a promise to clean house on illegal immigration.

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Illegal border crossings are at their lowest level since the 1970s.

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About 540,000 people have been deported since Trump's inauguration.

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ICE agents are deployed primarily deep inside Democratic-run cities.

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ICE more than doubled its officers and agents from 10,000 to 22,000 in one year.

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ICE has offered a US$50,000 sign-on bonus.

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ICE has quietly lowered its training standards.

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Governor Tim Walz held a press conference on Sunday.

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Federal immigration agents in Minneapolis swarmed Alex Pretti, pinned him to the ground, and pummeled him.

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The agents then shot Alex Pretti multiple times, including in the back.

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Anne Frank was a Jewish teenager who kept a diary while she and her family hid from the Nazis in a tiny Amsterdam attic during the Holocaust.

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Ordinary people have used whistles and cellphones and positioned themselves on the front lines to confront ICE and Border Patrol agents in their communities.

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In 1965, voting-rights marchers, including John Lewis, were beaten by baton-wielding officers near a bridge in Selma, Alabama.

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The bridge near Selma is named for a Confederate general and Klansman.

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In 1969, an uprising occurred at the Stonewall Inn, an LGBTQ bar in New York.

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The 1969 Stonewall uprising was led by trans women of color who fought back after years of police harassment and violence.

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Mary Frances Berry published a 2018 book titled "History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times."

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Berry's quoted remarks were originally about Trump's first presidential term.

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Since the 2024 election, Trump has shown lingering antipathy toward Walz.

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Tim Walz was the Democratic vice presidential nominee in the 2024 election.

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Melissa Hortman was a Democratic Minnesota state representative.

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Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed last June.

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George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis by a white police officer.

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George Floyd's killing led to nationwide anti-racism protests that consumed much of the summer of 2020, in the months leading to the presidential election.

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Derek Chauvin was a former Minneapolis police officer.

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Millions of people marched against police brutality and racial injustice following George Floyd's murder.

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Federal immigration agents have also been operating in Maine and other states, in addition to Minneapolis.

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Renee Nicole Good was killed, as was Alex Pretti, according to the author.

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Anti-ICE protests in Minnesota have included a general strike, school patrols by parents, and restaurants distributing free food.

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Renée Graham is a Globe columnist.

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Tom Homan was newly installed as commander of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement surge (Operation Metro Surge) in Minneapolis.

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Tom Homan planned to address the media on Thursday regarding the Minneapolis immigration enforcement operation.

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There were weeks of daily clashes between protesters and immigration agents in Minneapolis.

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A high-ranking ICE official issued an internal memo directing officers to avoid unnecessary communication with 'agitators' to avoid inflaming the situation.

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An internal ICE directive orders officers to only target immigrants with records of criminal charges or convictions.

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Trump sounded a conciliatory tone in public remarks the day before Wednesday.

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Todd Lyons is the acting ICE chief.

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U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz cancelled a contempt-of-court hearing for acting ICE chief Todd Lyons.

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ICE belatedly complied with a federal court order to release a wrongly detained Ecuadorean man.

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Judge Schiltz cited at least 96 federal court orders he said ICE violated in 74 cases.

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Gregory Bovino is a Border Patrol official.

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Trump ordered roughly 3,000 heavily armed ICE and Border Patrol agents to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.

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The immigration enforcement/deportation operation in Minneapolis-St. Paul is dubbed 'Operation Metro Surge.'

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Renee Good's fatal shooting sparked demonstrations in the Twin Cities and in communities across the country.

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Earlier ICE tactics included randomly stopping people on the street to demand documented proof of legal US residence or citizenship.

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It was not made clear what Homan planned to discuss at his press conference.

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Trump administration officials immediately defended the federal agents involved in the shootings of Good and Pretti.

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Multiple video recordings of the Good and Pretti shootings have gone viral on the internet.

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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey traveled to Washington, D.C. on January 29, 2026, to press federal officials to halt ICE operations in Minneapolis.

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Federal immigration enforcement activity continued in Minnesota while Frey traveled to Washington, D.C.

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Frey had a scheduled appearance at the U.S. Conference of Mayors during his visit to Washington, D.C.

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Frey planned to return to Minneapolis later on January 29, 2026.

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