Overview
- ICU nurse Alex Pretti, 37, was shot multiple times by a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis, with videos showing him holding a phone as agents wrestled him down and an officer removed a holstered handgun before shots were fired.
- Minneapolis police said Pretti was a lawful concealed-carry permit holder, countering early DHS claims that he approached agents with a gun and sought to inflict mass harm.
- Internal DHS sources expressed anger over definitive public statements by senior officials that were contradicted by video evidence, and the White House now says the shooting should be judged after an investigation.
- A federal judge issued an emergency order prohibiting DHS from altering or destroying evidence after Minnesota investigators said they were blocked at the scene, while ICE’s HSI was assigned the lead in a highly unusual intra-DHS probe.
- Under growing political pressure, President Trump dispatched border czar Tom Homan to Minnesota, Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino was removed from the Minneapolis operation, and bipartisan lawmakers and faith leaders are demanding a transparent joint investigation.