{"id":429735,"date":"2026-01-25T22:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T22:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/429735\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T22:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T22:38:08","slug":"minneapolis-live-protesters-gather-in-minneapolis-as-governor-calls-on-trump-to-remove-agents-after-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/429735\/","title":{"rendered":"Minneapolis live: Protesters gather in Minneapolis as governor calls on Trump to remove agents after shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an inflection point, Walz sayspublished at 19:46 GMT<\/p>\n<p>19:46 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Minnesota Governor Tim Walz gestures toward himself while speaking at a media conference\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3645809c-0002-4d3a-a440-eceb1bceceb0.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"874\" height=\"622\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Walz ends the news conference by offering a tribute to Pretti, saying he was an ICU nurse, a son, and &#8220;beloved by community&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He encourages federal leadership to stop &#8220;smearing&#8221; Pretti, adding that his family &#8220;has been through enough&#8221; in having to bury their son. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You know what you saw, and then you heard the most powerful people in the world&#8230;narrate to you what you were looking at, that this was a domestic terrorist,&#8221; Walz said, adding that federal agents closed the crime scene, &#8220;sweeping away the evidence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said someone needs to be held accountable for the shooting and renewed calls for Trump to get ICE agents out of Minneapolis. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is an inflection point, America,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If we cannot all agree that the smearing of an American citizen and besmirching everything they stood for and asking us not to believe what we saw, I don&#8217;t know what else to tell you,&#8221; he adds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With that, Walz ends his news briefing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is an inflection point, Walz sayspublished at 19:46 GMT 19:46 GMT Image source, Reuters Walz ends the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-429735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}