Noem: Immigration officers in Minneapolis will now wear body cameras

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Executive Overreach

Topic (health category)

Oversight Function

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150

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37 (corroborated across independent sources)

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Senate Democrats vowed to block DHS funding unless changes are made to rein in the agency's operations.

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

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Federal officers shot and killed two people in Minneapolis.

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A partial government shutdown began when funding expired at midnight on Friday.

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Thousands of protesters demonstrated in Minneapolis on Friday, January 23, 2026, despite sub-zero temperatures.

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DHS has since brought in thousands of federal immigration enforcement officers to the Minneapolis area.

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

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

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

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Federal immigration enforcement authorities are facing scrutiny and widespread criticism over their tactics, including the lack of body-worn cameras.

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Federal law does not mandate that ICE and CBP personnel wear body cameras.

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There is a shortage of body cameras for federal immigration officers during the second Trump administration.

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Immigration officers in Minneapolis have been confronted by large crowds of protesters and legal observers since the shootings of Renee Macklin Good and Alex Pretti.

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NPR has not verified any evidence that Alex Pretti brandished his handgun at any time during his encounter with federal agents.

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The investigation into the Minneapolis shootings is being led by Homeland Security Investigations, a division of ICE, and supported by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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About 2,000 immigration officers are rotating through Minneapolis as part of the operation the administration calls "Operation Metro Surge."

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Democratic lawmakers and immigration advocates have criticized the rapid deployment of ICE officers and Border Patrol agents to Minneapolis.

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Democratic lawmakers and immigration advocates have criticized ICE and Border Patrol officers' tactics to control crowds and conduct arrests in Minneapolis.

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Minnesota officials are suing the Trump administration over ICE and Border Patrol's crowd-control and arrest tactics in Minneapolis.

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Criticism of the Minneapolis immigration operation has centered partly on whether officers are or should be using body-worn cameras to document incidents.

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There are no body-worn cameras available in the Minneapolis area for ICE officers.

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ICE officers deployed in Minneapolis are not properly trained in the use of body-worn cameras.

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In 2021, Congress mandated that ICE work with the Homeland Security Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties to design a pilot program for body-worn cameras.

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The ICE body-camera pilot program was part of a broader Biden administration executive order to expand the use of body cameras across federal law enforcement.

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When Trump began his second term in 2025, he rescinded Biden's executive order related to body-camera use by federal law enforcement.

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The Homeland Security Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, tasked with helping oversee the ICE body-camera pilot program, was depleted.

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In October, Chicago District Judge Sara Ellis issued a temporary restraining order requiring federal agents conducting immigration enforcement in her district to activate their body cameras if they have them, unless exempted by agency policy.

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An appeals panel in the Seventh Circuit later overturned Judge Sara Ellis' temporary restraining order on body cameras.

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Judge Sara Ellis' temporary restraining order also included broader limits on the use of force by federal agents.

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The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed a spending bill that would provide the Department of Homeland Security with $20 million for cameras for ICE and CBP.

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The House spending bill mandates that the $20 million be spent but does not mandate the use of the cameras.

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The federal spending package would fund the entire federal government.

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There is a federal probe into fraud within Minnesota's social services programs.

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Renee Good, a US citizen, was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent on January 7 in the Minneapolis/Twin Cities area.

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Democrats on Capitol Hill have pushed for reforming federal immigration law enforcement agencies following the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

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Chuck Schumer proposed three demands, including body camera requirements for federal officers, in exchange for Democratic support of Homeland Security funding.

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Schumer proposed ending roving patrols by immigration officers.

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Schumer proposed tightening rules governing the use of warrants by officers targeting migrants.

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Schumer proposed establishing a universal code of conduct regarding officers' use of force.

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Schumer proposed prohibiting officers from wearing masks.

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The Senate voted/passed on Friday to fund five federal agencies/departments via regular appropriations bills.

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The Senate voted Friday to fund the Department of Homeland Security via a two-week continuing resolution.

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Multiple Republican lawmakers, including House Speaker Mike Johnson and Sen. Ron Johnson, have backed requiring immigration officers to wear body cameras.

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The US government faces a backlash over the deaths last month of two US citizens, Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

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The deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good followed a surge of federal immigration officers into the Minneapolis area as part of an immigration crackdown.

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The Hennepin County Medical Examiner has ruled Alex Pretti's 24 January death a homicide.

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Homicide refers to the killing of a person by another person and does not necessarily indicate that a crime has occurred.

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The US Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into Alex Pretti's death.

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The US is currently on day three of a partial government shutdown.

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Democrats continue to demand immigration reforms, including body cameras, as part of any funding deal to reopen the government.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement is currently the highest funded US law enforcement agency.

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Congress authorised $80bn (£59bn) for Immigration and Customs Enforcement last year.

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In the wake of Alex Pretti's shooting, the Trump administration removed Gregory Bovino, the US border patrol chief, from Minneapolis.

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The Trump administration replaced Gregory Bovino with border tsar Tom Homan in Minneapolis.

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Last week Tom Homan met local leaders, including Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Michael Frey, to discuss calming tensions in the wake of Alex Pretti and Renee Good's deaths.

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Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Michael Frey have called for a withdrawal of federal agents entirely from the state's capital region.

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Minneapolis's sanctuary city policy bars city employees from enforcing immigration laws.

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More than 3,000 federal immigration officers have been in the state of Minnesota for weeks as part of a federal immigration surge ordered by Donald Trump.

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Body cameras are one of the key demands made by Democrats who are blocking the agency's funding.

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Ron Johnson is the chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee.

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Body cameras have been among the conditions Democrats attached to continued funding of the agency.

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Democratic senators have refused to vote for a spending bill that funds DHS without ICE patrol reforms.

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The House Democratic caucus met on Sunday to plot a strategy on ICE reforms.

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Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic leader, echoed Schumer's demands in an ABC interview on Sunday.

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Two U.S. citizens were fatally shot before DHS decided to deploy body cameras in Minneapolis.

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The two people fatally shot had protested or interfered in immigration enforcement operations.

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Body cameras have been adopted by many state and local law enforcement agencies over the past few years as a result of controversial police shootings that led to activists demanding recording of police actions.

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Thousands of Border Patrol agents in Arizona were expected to be outfitted with body cameras in 2020 as a result of congressional funding approved during Trump's first term.

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Lawmakers in Congress had pushed for years for a mandate requiring immigration and border law enforcement officers to wear recording devices.

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CBP has studied for five years how to implement a body camera policy.

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CBP faced blowback from the National Border Patrol Council union over its body camera policy study.

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The shooting drew crowds of angry protesters to the shooting scene.

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The Alex Pretti shooting was the third shooting involving federal law enforcement in Minneapolis in January 2026, following two earlier shootings that same month.

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Federal agents were seen in video footage wrestling Alex Pretti to the ground before a burst of gunfire.

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The Alex Pretti shooting marked the second death that month linked to the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities.

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About a week after Renee Good was killed, an ICE officer shot and wounded a Venezuelan man in the leg in Minneapolis.

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Local, state and federal officials have given conflicting accounts of what led to Alex Pretti's death.

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The Alex Pretti shooting took place at around 9 a.m. local time.

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The Eat Street block of Nicollet Avenue is lined with restaurants including Peninsula Malaysian Cuisine, Christos Greek Restaurant, the Black Forest Inn, and Lanza Restaurant.

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People inside the doughnut shop locked the door after the person entered.

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Observers gathered outside the doughnut shop near Eat Street, blowing whistles and recording video.

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It is unclear from video whether Alex Pretti and the federal agent he faced were speaking to each other.

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A federal agent pushed a bystander to the ground during the confrontation.

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Alex Pretti then moved toward the federal agent who had pushed the bystander.

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The federal agent grabbed Alex Pretti and sprayed him with a chemical irritant.

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Federal agents then tried to separate Alex Pretti from the bystander and wrestled him to the ground.

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During the struggle, one federal officer reached into Alex Pretti's waistband.

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A shot rang out at the shooting scene, followed by at least nine more shots, according to videos of the incident.

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It is unclear whether the officer who took the weapon from Alex Pretti told the other officers he had taken it.

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It is unclear who fired the first shot.

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A witness account regarding the Alex Pretti shooting appears in a lawsuit against the Trump administration filed by protesters in December.

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A Minnesota judge granted a temporary restraining order on Saturday blocking federal agencies, including DHS, from destroying or altering evidence related to the Alex Pretti shooting.

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The temporary restraining order covers evidence removed from the shooting scene or taken into exclusive federal custody.

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ICE officials received a memo from leadership on Sunday notifying them of the court order to preserve evidence related to the Alex Pretti shooting.

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The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and the Hennepin County Attorney's Office requested the temporary restraining order on Saturday.

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Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agents were on site Sunday collecting evidence and canvassing neighborhoods.

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Federal agencies are facing increased scrutiny over how the Alex Pretti shooting investigation is being handled.

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Frustrations have been building within the Department of Homeland Security over the handling of the Alex Pretti shooting.

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The shooting drew crowds of angry protesters to the scene.

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CNN reviewed videos of the shooting.

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A court hearing related to the Alex Pretti shooting case is scheduled for Monday at 2 p.m. in St. Paul.

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Some Republican senators took to social media over the weekend to call for a comprehensive investigation into the Alex Pretti shooting and questioned the credibility of DHS and ICE.

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Alex Pretti graduated from the University of Minnesota, College of Liberal Arts, in 2011.

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The Saturday shooting of a man by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis drew crowds of angry protesters to the scene.

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According to videos, an officer appeared to walk away holding Alex Pretti's weapon after it was taken from him.

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The Saturday shooting drew crowds of angry protesters to the shooting scene.

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CNN has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security and the US Justice Department for comment on the lawsuit and on allegations that evidence was removed from the scene.

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CNN has reached out to the White House for comment.

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According to CNN affiliate Spectrum News, Alex Pretti graduated from high school in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in 2006.

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A network of former Department of Justice officials released a statement on Sunday criticizing the DOJ's handling of two fatal shootings in Minneapolis carried out by federal agents.

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Stacey Young is the executive director and founder of the Justice Connection.

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Following the shooting, Governor Tim Walz authorized activation of the Minnesota National Guard to assist local law enforcement, at the request of the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office.

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Hundreds of businesses in Minnesota closed on Friday.

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The ICE operation ordered by the Trump administration in Minnesota has been going on for more than six weeks.

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Anti-ICE protesters were marching in Minneapolis on Saturday despite frigid temperatures.

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The CBP Use of Force policy relies on constitutional law, as interpreted by federal courts, requiring force to be objectively reasonable when applied.

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Reasonableness of force is measured by what the agent knew or perceived at the moment of firing, not by public opinion or later video review.

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The FBI has primary jurisdiction to investigate shooting incidents involving federal agents.

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Separate from any FBI criminal investigation, Border Patrol agents' use of force is measured administratively against the current CBP Use of Force (UOF) policy.

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Border Patrol agents receive months of use-of-force policy training at the Border Patrol Academy and recurring training each year.

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Under CBP policy, deadly force is authorized when an agent reasonably believes a person poses an imminent danger of death or serious injury to the agent or another person.

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According to undisputed facts available at the time, Pretti was armed during the struggle preceding the Saturday shooting.

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Video evidence shows agents involved in the struggle could be heard shouting 'gun!' several times before the first shot was fired.

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Graham v. Connor is a 1989 U.S. Supreme Court case.

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Graham v. Connor supports the principle that information from other officers may be used to meet the reasonableness standard, regardless of whether the agent personally observed the weapon.

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Border Patrol firearms training instructors are responsible for training agents both to shoot accurately and to know when to shoot.

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Some video angles show an agent, possibly carrying Pretti's firearm, moving away from the struggling group seconds before shots were fired.

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During Saturday's shooting in Minneapolis, Border Patrol agents sought to take Pretti into custody.

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Pretti may not have disclosed to the agents that he was carrying a firearm.

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Pretti was reluctant to submit to arrest.

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City and state law enforcement officials were absent during the immigration operation in Minneapolis.

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Videos of the shooting appear to show Pretti attempting to direct traffic while filming other individuals near the group of Border Patrol agents.

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The Department of Justice under the Biden administration set a standard for prosecuting federal agents involved in shooting incidents.

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In April 2021, the DOJ closed its investigation into the shooting death of Ashli Babbitt.

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Ashli Babbitt was unarmed when she was shot.

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The DOJ closed the investigation into Babbitt's shooting due to a lack of evidence to support prosecuting Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd.

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Lt. Michael Byrd of the Capitol Police shot Ashli Babbitt on January 6.

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Two members of the National Guard were shot near the White House in November.

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Sarah Beckstrom, 20, of West Virginia was shot and killed by Rahmanullah Lakanwal within 24 hours of being sworn in to protect the District of Columbia.

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Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who shot Sarah Beckstrom, is an Afghan national.

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Lakanwal was shot during the attack in which he killed Beckstrom.

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Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolf, 24, of West Virginia was severely injured in the attack that killed Beckstrom.

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Randy Clark, the article's author, is a 32-year veteran of the United States Border Patrol.

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Before his retirement, Randy Clark served as Division Chief for Law Enforcement Operations in the Border Patrol.

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Randy Clark directed operations for nine Border Patrol Stations within the Del Rio, Texas Sector.

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A congressional aide claimed CBP had access to around 13,400 body cameras for a staff of around 45,000 in June.

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The CBP officers who fatally shot Alex Pretti were wearing body cameras.

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The ICE agent who killed Renee Good was not wearing a body camera.

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Good was 37 years old.

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ICE has been gradually rolling out body-worn cameras nationwide, including during recent high-profile arrests.

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