temporarily suspended<\/a> that ruling days before Saturday\u2019s shooting.<\/p>\nThe Minnesota National Guard was assisting local police at the direction of Gov. Tim Walz, officials said, with troops sent to both the shooting site and a federal building where officers have squared off daily with demonstrators.<\/p>\n
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said during a news conference Saturday that Pretti showed up to \u201cimpede a law enforcement operation.\u201d She questioned why he was armed but did not offer details about whether Pretti drew the weapon or brandished it at officers.<\/p>\n
Gun rights groups have noted it\u2019s legal to carry firearms during protests.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery peaceable Minnesotan has the right to keep and bear arms \u2014 including while attending protests, acting as observers, or exercising their First Amendment rights,\u201d the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus said in a statement. \u201cThese rights do not disappear when someone is lawfully armed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump blames Democrats<\/p>\n
The Republican president weighed in on social media Saturday by lashing out at Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.<\/p>\n
He shared images of the gun that immigration officials said was recovered and said: \u201cWhat is that all about? Where are the local Police? Why weren\u2019t they allowed to protect ICE Officers?\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump said the Democratic governor and mayor \u201care inciting Insurrection, with their pompous, dangerous, and arrogant rhetoric.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York was among several Democratic lawmakers demanding that federal immigration authorities leave Minnesota. She also urged Democrats to refuse to vote to fund U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, saying via social media: \u201cWe have a responsibility to protect Americans from tyranny.\u201d <\/p>\n
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York later said that Democrats will not vote for a spending package that includes money for DHS, which oversees ICE. Schumer\u2019s statement increases the possibility that the government could partially shut down Jan. 30 when funding runs out.<\/p>\n
Pretti was shot just over a mile from where an ICE officer killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good on Jan. 7, sparking widespread protests.<\/p>\n
Pretti\u2019s family was furious at federal officials\u2019 description of the shooting.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump\u2019s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed,\u201d the family statement said. \u201cPlease get the truth out about our son. He was a good man.\u201d<\/p>\n
Video shows officers, man who was shot<\/p>\n
When the Saturday confrontation began, bystander video shows protesters blowing whistles and shouting profanities at federal officers on a commercial street in south Minneapolis.<\/p>\n
The videos show Pretti stepping in after an immigration officer shoves a woman. Pretti appears to be holding his phone toward the officer, but there\u2019s no sign he\u2019s holding a weapon.<\/p>\n
The officer shoves Pretti in his chest, and pepper-sprays him and the woman.<\/p>\n
Soon, at least seven officers are forcing Pretti to the ground. Several officers try to bring the man\u2019s arms behind his back as he struggles against them. An officer holding a tear-gas canister strikes him on or near his head several times.<\/p>\n
A shot is heard, but with officers surrounding the man, it\u2019s not clear where it came from. Multiple officers back off. More shots are heard. Officers back away, and the man lies motionless on the street.<\/p>\n
Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol commander leading Trump\u2019s crackdown, was repeatedly pressed on CNN\u2019s Sunday \u201cState of the Union\u201d for evidence that Pretti did anything illegal or assaulted law enforcement, as officials have claimed. <\/p>\n
Bovino said it was \u201cvery evident\u201d that Pretti was not following the officers\u2019 orders.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s too bad the consequences had to be paid because he injected himself into that crime scene,\u201d he said. \u201cHe made the decision.\u201d<\/p>\n
Walz said Saturday that he had no confidence in federal officials and that the state would lead the investigation into the shooting.<\/p>\n
Drew Evans, superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, said during a news conference Saturday that federal officers blocked his agency from the scene even after it obtained a signed judicial warrant.<\/p>\n
Protests continue<\/p>\n
Demonstrations broke out in several cities across the country, including New York, Washington and Los Angeles. <\/p>\n
In Minneapolis, protesters converged at the scene of the shooting Saturday despite dangerously cold weather, with temperatures around minus-6 degrees.<\/p>\n
An angry crowd gathered after the shooting and screamed profanities at federal officers, calling them \u201ccowards\u201d and telling them to go home. Protesters dragged garbage bins from alleyways to block streets, and people chanted, \u201cICE out now\u201d and \u201cObserving ICE is not a crime.\u201d<\/p>\n
As darkness fell, hundreds of people mourned quietly by a growing memorial at the site of the shooting. A doughnut shop and a clothing store nearby stayed open, offering protesters a warm place as well as water, coffee and snacks.<\/p>\n
Caleb Spike said he came from a nearby suburb to show his support and his frustration. \u201cIt feels like every day something crazier happens,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat\u2019s happening in our community is wrong, it\u2019s sickening, it\u2019s disgusting.\u201d <\/p>\n
Raza, Brook and Karnowski write for the Associated Press. AP writers Giovanna Dell\u2019Orto and Tim Sullivan in Minnesota, Rebecca Santanta in Washington and Jim Mustian in New York contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Democrats demanded federal immigration officers leave Minnesota after a U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally shot a man in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[8528,18258,17807,22508,348,48,52,51,47,50,49,1555,47556,4226,4694,2322,73937,11276,11072,225,3025],"class_list":["post-149169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-fatal-shooting","tag-federal-immigration-officer","tag-federal-official","tag-ice-officer","tag-investigation","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-man","tag-minneapolis","tag-minnesota","tag-new-york","tag-officer","tag-pretti","tag-protester","tag-saturday-morning","tag-state","tag-statement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149169","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=149169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}