Overview
- On Fox News, House Oversight Chair James Comer suggested President Trump relocate federal officers from Minneapolis to avoid further loss of life.
- Trump praised Comer’s interview on Truth Social, while a White House spokesperson framed the surge as delivering on the president’s mass‑deportation pledge.
- Video of Alex Pretti’s death shows an officer taking his firearm before shots were fired, contradicting officials’ characterizations that lack evidence of “domestic terrorism.”
- Minnesota officials said they were blocked from the scene, and a federal judge issued an emergency temporary restraining order to preserve potential evidence.
- Protests intensified across the Twin Cities as Republican figures called for a pause or investigations and a House panel sought testimony from DHS agency heads.