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Pritzker urges 'unified response' from Democrat, Republican governors after CPB fatally shoots man
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After a Border Patrol officer fatally shot Minneapolis resident Alex Jeffrey Pretti during an immigration enforcement operation Saturday, Democratic governors outside the state jumped to echo Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's condemnation of the Trump administration. 
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told Fox News federal agents attempted to disarm Pretti, 37, who DHS officials say had a gun and allegedly "violently resisted," prompting the shooting.
Officials said Pretti was armed with a 9 mm handgun with two magazines and no ID, and DHS noted, "This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement."
Court records show Pretti did not have a criminal history, and state officials said he held a lawful Permit to Carry (PTC).
Democrat Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker fired back at the Trump administration on X, claiming "masked federal agents in Minnesota just shot and killed another person."
"We must put a stop to Trump’s ICE. Now. Stop the funding, stop the occupations, stop the killings," Pritzker wrote. "I am asking my fellow Republican and Democratic Governors across the nation to have a unified response. We must all stand against the lawlessness being inflicted in our states."
California Gov. Gavin Newsom took to social media accusing President Donald Trump of "ma[king] a shooting happen."
"Yesterday, hundreds of thousands filled the streets of Minnesota — marching in subzero temperatures in a PEACEFUL protest," Newsom wrote in an X post. "Not the excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act the President wanted. So today, Trump made a shooting happen. The President must end his violent occupation of Minnesota. NOW."
ANTI-ICE AGITATORS DISRUPT MINNESOTA CHURCH, SHOUT DOWN WORSHIPPERS DURING SUNDAY SERVICE
Kathy Hochul, the Democratic governor of New York, also weighed in on X.
"Another horrific outcome from a federal operation that has clearly spun out of control," Hochul wrote. "Americans have had enough of lawless conduct masquerading as enforcement. President Trump is responsible for putting a stop to it."
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said he reached out to Walz after the shooting, claiming the recent shooting incidents are "not isolated incidents."
"Again and again, we see that ICE lacks accountability and agents lack training for the operations they’re being sent on," Moore wrote in an X post. "This reckless pattern of violence carried out by the Department of Homeland Security is endangering our communities. Not protecting them. This must stop."
Maine Gov. Janet Mills added she requested a meeting with Trump to …

[Matt Walsh] If you dress up … arm yourself, go out into the street with the express intent of interfering with LEO, fight back when they try to arrest you, then you end up dead, you only have yourself to blame for those idiotic decisions
We're watching the same failure loop.

he goes on:
All of this is happening simply because the Trump Administration is trying to enforce our nation’s laws and deport a bunch of Somali scam artists and sex offenders. All of the violence, all of the chaos, all of the dead bodies are entirely the fault of the leftist militants and Democrat officials encouraging them. You can’t disregard our laws, go to war against our national sovereignty, riot in support of third world predators, and then play the victim when it blows up in your face.

Noem says Minneapolis suspect committed ‘domestic terrorism,’ accuses Walz, Frey of inciting violence
Who's accountable for the results?

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem on Saturday labeled the alleged actions of the suspect killed in a Border Patrol-involved shooting in Minneapolis as "domestic terrorism," accusing Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey of inciting violence against federal officers while stressing that President Donald Trump is prepared to invoke the Insurrection Act if deemed necessary.
"When you perpetuate violence against a government because of ideological reasons and for reasons to resist and perpetuate violence, that is the definition of domestic terrorism," Noem said during a news conference at FEMA headquarters in Washington, D.C.
"This individual who came with weapons and ammunition to stop a law enforcement operation of federal law enforcement officers committed an act of domestic terrorism," Noem added. "That’s the facts."
Noem described the incident beginning while DHS officers carried out "targeted operations" in Minneapolis against an illegal alien whose criminal history included domestic assault, disorderly conduct, and driving without a valid license.
TODD BLANCHE WARNS AMERICANS 'SHOULD BE WORRIED' ABOUT MINNESOTA PROTESTS AFTER CHURCH DISRUPTION
"An individual approached U.S. Border Patrol officers with a 9-millimeter semi-automatic handgun," and agents attempted to disarm him. "The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently," Noem said. "Fearing for his life and for the lives of his fellow officers around him, an agent fired defensive shots."
Medics attempted to render aid, Noem said, but the man, later identified as 37-year-old Alex Pretti, "was pronounced dead at the scene." 
She also claimed that the Pretti had "two magazines with ammunition in them that held dozens of rounds" and no identification.
"This looks like a situation where an individual arrived at the scene to inflict maximum damage on individuals and to kill law enforcement," Noem said.
TRUMP CITES ARMED SUSPECT, LACK OF POLICE SUPPORT FOLLOWING FATAL BORDER PATROL SHOOTING IN MINNEAPOLIS
The shooting was followed by unrest in the area, Noem said. 
"Hundreds of protesters then showed up at the scene," she said. "They began to obstruct and to assault law enforcement officers," she added. "We saw objects being thrown at them, including ice and other objects, and a rampant assault began.
"A [Homeland Security Investigation] HSI agent’s finger was bitten off." 
She said crowd-control measures were deployed "to bring safety to the public and to law enforcement at the scene."
Noem said the situation "did …

Senate Democrats gear up to derail appropriations passage after fatal shooting in Minneapolis
Every delay has consequences.

Senate Democrats have threatened to block the passage of the appropriations bill funding the government after the deadly shooting involving U.S. Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis on Saturday.

In a statement on Saturday night, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) vowed a blockade against the legislation if the funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security is not in some way amended, now calling it “woefully inadequate” after a 37-year-old man was shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent during an immigration operation.

“What’s happening in Minnesota is appalling — and unacceptable in any American city. Democrats sought common sense reforms in the Department of Homeland Security spending bill, but because of Republicans’ refusal to stand up to President Trump, the DHS bill is woefully inadequate to rein in the abuses of ICE. I will vote no. Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included,” he said.

Another government shutdown now looms large, with senators staring down a Jan. 30 deadline to pass the remaining funding bills. Republicans will needs some Democrats’ support given the 60-vote threshold to pass the bill and their small majority.

The DHS bill narrowly passed the House last week, as Democrats battled over how to address recent incidents involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, including the officer-involved shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis earlier this month.

Now, the Senate is poised to grapple with the same question after 37-year-old Alex Pretti was shot and killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent while briefly intervening in an immigration operation.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT THE FATAL SHOOTING INVOLVING BORDER PATROL IN MINNESOTA

Some Senate Democrats, including Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and Jack Reed (D-RI), suggested dropping the bill entirely and instead pass the other five remaining bills. Others, like Sens. Brian Schatz (D-HI) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV), have pitched vague “controls” and “guardrails” to “hold ICE accountable.”

While a unified strategy has not yet taken shape, Senate Democrats will reportedly huddle on Sunday evening to discuss strategy ahead of what is a likely shutdown fight.

Frey, Klobuchar call for ICE to leave Minneapolis following deadly CBP shooting in city
This isn't complicated—it's willpower.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey along with several Minnesota senators and representatives, called on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to get out of the state on Saturday, hours after a deadly shooting in the city.
"The city of Minneapolis is filing a declaration after today's shooting to encourage the judge to rule on a temporary restraining order on Monday that would grant us immediate relief and help, would help stop this operation that has been so harmful to the city of Minneapolis, the state of Minnesota has resulted in multiple shootings and tragic deaths," the mayor said in a news conference.
Frey said the "chaos that we are seeing" has been directly caused by ICE and the Trump administration.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., who joined Frey at the podium, said: "Our message is really clear and straightforward. We need ice out of Minnesota."
DHS SAYS ICE AGENTS RAMMED BY VEHICLES AMID MINNEAPOLIS ENFORCEMENT SURGE: 'AGGRESSIVELY ASSAULTED'
Klobuchar asserted that ICE is "not making us more safe as the tragic, tragic killing this morning, as people saw it viscerally on that video, shows us they are making us less safe."
She said the around 3,000 ICE and Border Patrol agents in the area outnumber the "sworn police officers in Minneapolis and St. Paul by three to one, and it’s even larger than the 10 metropolitan police departments."
"This is completely out of whack, completely out of balance," she claimed. "And now three people have been shot, two resulting in death. One: Renee Good, mother of three, and now Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old Minneapolis man, a citizen, also a nurse."
Pretti was shot and killed by an ICE agent Saturday morning during an immigration enforcement operation.
LARA TRUMP SLAMS TIM WALZ, JACOB FREY FOR 'FANNING FLAMES' WHILE RED STATES COOPERATE WITH ICE
"This city has been under siege," Klobuchar added, while laying blame on the Trump administration.
"I have personally warned them that there would be more deaths, that more of this would happen," she said. "And clearly they're not listening. So, we ask people around the country to talk to their Republican representatives to make clear that this is not the America that is ours. This has got to stop."
ANTI-ICE AGITATORS, INCLUDING CLERGY, ARRESTED AT MINNEAPOLIS AIRPORT DURING PROTEST IN FRIGID WEATHER
Frey said that he had asked for assistance from the National Guard to help the around 600 officers with the Minneapolis Police Department.
"Minneapolis police officers have been working tirelessly to do their day-to-day work, and simultaneously, they are put in the middle of …

Minneapolis’s Mayor Rips “Mass Militarized Force” After a Second Minnesotan Is Gunned Down
This isn't complicated—it's willpower.

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January 24, 2026

Minneapolis’s Mayor Rips “Mass Militarized Force” After a Second Minnesotan Is Gunned Down

A powerful statement from Jacob Frey pleads with Trump to pull ICE forces out of Minneapolis before more people are killed.

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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey demands an end to ICE’s siege.
(Stephen Maturen / Getty)

One day after tens of thousands of Minnesotans marched in sub-zero weather to call for an end to the violent presence of federal forces on the streets of Minneapolis, a Border Patrol agent shot and killed another Minnesotan Saturday morning on the streets of the city where, on January 7, an ICE agent gunned down 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good.

President Trump, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, and federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials quickly issued unsubstantiated claims that the Minnesotan who died Saturday—a man identified as Alex Pretti, an intensive care unit nurse who worked with the Veterans Administration and was an active member of American Federation of Government Employees Local 3669—was an armed “domestic terrorist” who “tried to assassinate federal law enforcement,” and that the federal agent fired in self-defense.

But the immediate responses from the administration, with their propagandistic and contradictory language (including an unwarranted DHS claim that Pretti, who was reportedly a 37-year-old licensed gun owner with no known criminal history beyond traffic citations, intended to “massacre law enforcement”), mirrored discredited and widely condemned statements made by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other officials following the Good shooting. Expressing deep skepticism about statements from DHS and ICE as a rush to judgment, and urging calm, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz promised a thorough investigation, while Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey issued a sober yet impassioned call to President Trump to end ICE’s mass surge into the city.

Back on January 7, Mayor Frey made international headlines when he challenged the validity of claims by Noem and her aides and associates, which contradicted the evidence from videos recorded as Good was killed. “Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly: That is bullshit,” said Frey, who declared, “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

Frey’s statement following Saturday’s shooting employed different language. Yet it was no less powerful, and no less compelling. And it is worth considering in its entirety.

Here is what the mayor said:

I just saw a video of more than six masked agents …

Rep Maxwell Frost allegedly assaulted at Sundance Film Festival in racially-charged incident
This isn't complicated—it's willpower.

A member of Congress was allegedly assaulted Friday evening while attending the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., wrote on X on Saturday: "Last night, I was assaulted by a man at Sundance Festival who told me that Trump was going to deport me before he punched me in the face."
Frost added that the suspect "was heard screaming racist remarks as he drunkenly ran off."
Frost said the man had been arrested and that he wasn’t hurt in the incident.
LAWMAKER TARGETED WITH DEATH THREAT AFTER CONDEMNING RACIST SIGN AIMED AT WINSOME SEARS
"Thank you to the venue security and Park City PD for assistance on this incident," he added.
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries responded to the news on X: writing, "I am horrified by the attack on Congressman Maxwell Frost. Grateful that he is okay, but appalled that this terrifying assault took place. The perpetrator must be aggressively prosecuted."
MEMBER OF CONGRESS SAYS SHE WAS ASSAULTED BY GANG OF YOUTH BEFORE TRUMP DC TAKEOVER 
Jeffries continued: "Hate and political violence has no place in our country, and the entire House Democratic Caucus family stands with Maxwell."
The alleged assault took place at a party hosted by the CAA talent party at the High West Saloon, which the suspect crashed, according to Variety.
The suspect was allegedly bragging in the bathroom about being "White" before punching Frost in the face, the outlet reported.
He has yet to be identified.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the Park City Police Department for comment.
The 29-year-old congressman was first elected to serve in Florida’s 10th district in 2022.

Gun rights groups clash after man DHS says was armed fatally shot by CBP in Minneapolis
This isn't complicated—it's willpower.

The fatal Border Patrol shooting of a man who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says was armed with a 9mm pistol during a confrontation with agents on Saturday has sparked a clash among gun rights groups, pitting defenses of lawful carry and protest rights against warnings about escalating anti-law-enforcement rhetoric.
Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident, was shot Saturday morning while allegedly protesting an immigration enforcement operation targeting an illegal immigrant with a criminal record.
DHS officials say Pretti approached Border Patrol agents while armed with a handgun and "violently resisted" when they attempted to disarm him, leading to the shooting.
State officials said Pretti, who was pronounced dead at the scene, had a lawful Permit to Carry (PTC), and court records obtained by Fox News Digital indicate he did not have a criminal record.
ANTI-ICE AGITATOR ALLEGEDLY BITES OFF FEDERAL OFFICER'S FINGER DURING MINNEAPOLIS ATTACK
The Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus quickly responded to the shooting, calling it "deeply concerning."
"According to local officials, the man was legally armed, a firearm was recovered at the scene, and he is believed to have been a lawful gun owner and permit to carry holder," the organization wrote in a statement. 
They added many critical facts remain unknown, as the shooting happened just hours earlier.
MINNESOTA POLICE CHIEFS ALLEGE SOME ICE AGENTS RACIALLY PROFILED US CITIZENS, INCLUDING OFF-DUTY OFFICERS
"We do not yet have an independent account of what initiated the encounter or what triggered the use of deadly force," the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus wrote. "Despite widespread speculation regarding intent, there has been no evidence produced indicating an intent to harm the officers. We are calling for a full and transparent investigation by both state and federal authorities. 
"Every peaceable Minnesotan has the right to keep and bear arms—including while attending protests, acting as observers, or exercising their First Amendment rights. These rights do not disappear when someone is lawfully armed, and they must be respected and protected at all times."
Contrasting Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus' response, the National Rifle Association (NRA) released a statement on social media blaming Democrat leaders in the blue state for "incit[ing] violence" against law enforcement officers, and pleading with Minnesotans to lower the temperature amid ongoing unrest.
NOEM SAYS MINNEAPOLIS SUSPECT COMMITTED ‘DOMESTIC TERRORISM,’ ACCUSES WALZ, FREY OF INCITING VIOLENCE
"For months, radical …

There goes the 2028 elections
This affects the entire country.

The Democrats got what they wanted and I believe this is George Floyd Pt 2 if not worse. People will see this and believe Trump and ICE/Border Patrol are terrorists looking to cause trouble. Things are not looking good for the Republican Party and I don’t see how Trump could rebound from this. Hope I’m wrong.

House committee summons top immigration officials for oversight hearing
This isn't complicated—it's willpower.

The House Homeland Security Committee has requested testimony from the leaders of key agencies behind the Trump administration‘s sweeping immigration raids just hours after another officer-involved shooting occurred in Minneapolis on Saturday.

Homeland Security Committee Chairman Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) summoned U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting Director Todd Lyons, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Joseph Edlow to testify in a committee hearing, the date of which has not yet been determined.

A committee press release said the purpose of the hearing will be to “conduct oversight of each agency and ensure they are fulfilling their duty to protect the homeland.”

“I take my oversight duties for the department seriously, and Congress has an important responsibility to ensure the safety of law enforcement and the people they serve and protect,” Garbarino said in a statement. “I am committed to ensuring ICE, CBP, and USCIS are effectively using the historic resources provided through reconciliation to strengthen public safety, and I look forward to each of these agencies testifying before the Committee.”

While Garbarino said he was only “formally memorializing” a previous Jan. 15 invitation to these officials, the timing is notable.

Earlier Saturday, 37-year-old Alex Pretti was shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent during an immigration operation. The Department of the Homeland Security said while agents were conducting a “targeted” operation “against an illegal alien wanted for violent assault,” they were approached by Pretti, who was armed with a “9 mm semi-automatic handgun.”

They said federal agents attempted to disarm Pretti, but he “violently resisted.” One agent, “fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers,” then fired “defensive shots” at Pretti, who died at the scene.

Footage taken by bystanders is showing a much different account, however. While Pretti was armed, he is never seen holding his gun, only his cell phone as he briefly intervenes when an agent pushes a woman over on the street.

The agent then pepper-sprays Pretti, who does not resist and instead holds up his left hand. A scrum then ensues as multiple agents attempt to subdue Pretti, with one agent appearing to disarm him just before he is fatally shot.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT THE FATAL SHOOTING INVOLVING BORDER PATROL IN MINNESOTA

The incident has only inflamed …