Overview
- Jimmy Kimmel delivered a tearful monologue urging viewers to watch the footage and denouncing the federal agents involved as "poorly trained, shamefully led, mask-wearing goons."
- Stephen Colbert criticized DHS for framing the shooting as defensive, saying agents appeared to disarm Alex Pretti before firing, and he praised peaceful demonstrations in Minnesota.
- Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said agents acted in self-defense after Pretti approached with a gun, a statement contradicted by videos showing him holding a phone and apparently being disarmed.
- Pretti, 37, was a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse with a valid permit to carry and no violent criminal history, according to Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara.
- The shooting marked Minneapolis’s second fatal encounter with federal agents this month after Renée Nicole Good’s death, intensifying protests and calls for independent investigations.