Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Saturday assailed the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old man by a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis, the second such death in that city this month involving U.S. immigration officers.<\/p>\n
“This morning we learned of yet another tragic shooting in Minneapolis at the hands of federal agents,\u201d Bass said in a statement after news broke of the killing of a man identified as Alex Pretti. \u201cThis violence has to stop and the president must remove these armed, federal forces from Minneapolis and other American cities.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bass referenced legal action she and other mayors are taking in federal court to \u201cstop the Trump administration\u2019s unconstitutional and unlawful deployment of federal agents in the Twin Cities.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOur amicus brief supports Minnesota, Minneapolis, and St. Paul\u2019s lawsuit to immediately end this militarized presence in their communities,\u2019\u2019 Bass said.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles County Republican Party cautioned against a rush to judgment in what is certain to be another highly volatile case.<\/p>\n
“In the aftermath of any officer involved shooting, it\u2019s important to figure out what happened, which often is not possible to ascertain immediately,\u201d the party\u2019s chairman said in a statement provided to City News Service. \u201cWe were not present at the scene of this regrettable incident in Minneapolis, and neither was Mayor Karen Bass.\u201d<\/p>\n
Assemblyman Mark Gonzalez, D-Los Angeles and currently the Assembly\u2019s
majority whip, was even more blunt than Bass in a statement in which he wrote, \u201cSHAME ON ICE.\u201d<\/p>\n
“Where there should be protection, there is only the echo of gunfire,\u201d Gonzalez said. \u201cWhere there should be justice, there is only another name taken too soon.\u201d <\/p>\n
A demonstration and vigil for Pretti beganon Olvera Street in Los Angeles around 4 p.m. About 200 to 300 protesters were in attendance. Another protest was scheduled from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Federal Building, also downtown. at 300 N. Los Angeles St. in downtown L.A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Saturday assailed the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old man by a U.S.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[13409,73654,13053,12858,9977,73655,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,73653,65890,4226,73656,224,2058,3025,73657],"class_list":["post-148390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-37-year-old-man","tag-alex-pretti","tag-amicus-brief","tag-bass","tag-federal-agent","tag-l-a-mayor-bass","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-mariachi-plaza","tag-minneapolis-shooting","tag-minnesota","tag-other-american-city","tag-p-m","tag-protest","tag-statement","tag-u-s-immigration-officer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}