US EditionTrump Blames Local Leaders, Cites Armed Suspect After Fatal Border Patrol Shooting in Minneapolis
The fatal shooting of a 37-year-old man by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis intensified protests and calls to withhold Department of Homeland Security funding, officials said.
- On Saturday, U.S. Border Patrol agents shot and killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident, during an operation in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- The Department of Homeland Security said agents were carrying out a targeted arrest of Jose Huerta Chuma when a different man approached officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun, sharing a photo showing two magazines.
- Video evidence leaves open whether the man was reaching for a weapon, while Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino said the suspect violently resisted and feared a massacre, but MPD reported no assistance request.
- Protests erupted in Minneapolis on Saturday, disrupting local events including postponing a Minnesota Timberwolves game, while Mayor Jacob Frey and Gov. Tim Walz demanded federal forces be removed and investigations launched.
- President Donald Trump defended federal agents on Truth Social and blamed local leaders for chaos, citing `massive Monetary Fraud, with Billions of Dollars missing, and Illegal Criminals that were allowed to infiltrate the State through the Democrats' Open Border Policy`.
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Again, in Minneapolis, shots are fired in an operation of federal officials. A man was killed. Bund and local authorities contradict each other in some details.At the beginning of January, a woman in Minneapolis, Minnesota, died after shots from an ICE official. Now another man dies – again after shots from a federal officer (the star reported). Much is still unclear. An overview:What we know about the shots in MinneapolisThe incident: On Saturd…
Again in the big city in the north of the USA a person is killed in a deployment of federal officials. Indignation spreads, even if much is still unclear.
The anger on Donald Trump is growing: about ten shots of a man lying on the ground - video footage of the deadly ICE operation in Minneapolis are massively contradicting the self-defense representation of the authorities.
Self-defense? No, "Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE gangsters would have shot a harmless man in cold blood, his parents complain. The anger about the US government's actions is growing.
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AlKhaleej Today‘Inciting insurrection’: Trump fires at Minnesota governor and mayor after second fatal federal shooting
WASHINGTON, Jan 25 — US President Donald Trump accused the mayor of Minneapolis and the state’s governor of “inciting insurrection” Saturday over their response to the killing of a civilian in the city by federal officers.“The Mayor and the Governor are inciting Insurrection, with their pompous, dangerous, and arrogant rhetoric,” Trump wrote on social media, ratcheting up his stand-off with Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey and Governor Tim Walz.Trump…
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