Overview
- Artists from Billie Eilish to Katy Perry urged followers to contact lawmakers, with several calling for Congress to block or condition funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
- Bystander videos of the Jan. 24 shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis appear to show agents disarming him before he was shot, undercutting official claims of self‑defense.
- Pretti’s family and local officials say he had a legal permit to carry a concealed handgun, while the Department of Homeland Security maintains he approached officers while armed.
- The outcry follows the Jan. 7 killing of Renée Nicole Good by a federal officer in the same city, which, together with Pretti’s death, has fueled protests and intensified scrutiny of Operation Metro Surge.
- Public statements ranged from Finneas O’Connell’s denunciation of justifications based on gun possession to posts by Pedro Pascal, Jamie Lee Curtis and the NBPA calling for organized civic action.