Immigration agents shoot and kill another person in Minneapolis
A woman was already shot dead on January 7 by the same security force
BarcelonaUS immigration agents from ICE shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Saturday, according to the city's police chief, Brian O'Hara. The man, Alex Pretti, was an intensive care nurse who was protesting mass deportations of immigrants and had no criminal record. This is the second such incident in the city, following the death of another man by officers from the same agency on January 7. a woman was shot As part of the mass raids against immigrants ordered by the Donald Trump administration, the individual killed this Saturday was Alex Petti, a 37-year-old white man who apparently had a gun permit, lived in the city, and had no prior incidents with law enforcement, according to the police official. Petti was carrying a gun—which is legal in Minnesota—but videos of the incident prove that what he was holding was his cell phone. The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the actions of immigration agents, justified the killing by saying that the man was armed and posed a threat to the agents. A video posted on Facebook and verified by media outlets such as NBC News shows the sequence of events. The footage shows half a dozen masked agents surrounding a man who struggles with them and tries to resist on the ground. One of the officers strikes him with the butt of a pistol, and suddenly another agent opens fire on the man. Immediately afterward, the individual became completely still, and all the agents stood back. According to US media, one of the agents drew his weapon and then fired up to 10 shots at him while he was already subdued on the ground.
The Department of Homeland Security has released a photo of a 9mm semiautomatic pistol that the slain man was allegedly carrying. In a statement, it reported that the incident occurred during an operation "against an illegal immigrant wanted for assault," when the 37-year-old man approached federal Border Patrol agents armed. "The agents attempted to disarm the suspect," but "he violently resisted," the statement also asserts. "Fearing for his life and the lives of his colleagues, the agent fired several shots in self-defense," it concludes.
The Department of Homeland Security has justified the use of riot control tactics by officers in the same operation, arguing that some 200 activists were attempting to obstruct law enforcement. It also stated that the man shot was carrying two magazines and had no identification.
Governor's outrage
The governor of the US state of Minnesota, Tim Walz, demanded on Saturday that the raids against immigrants ordered by the US government be stopped immediately. "I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting perpetrated by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had enough. This is disgusting. The president must end this operation. Withdraw the thousands of violent and untrained agents from Minnesota now," he wrote on the social network X, clearly.
The large-scale raids in Minnesota were ordered by the Trump administration in early January, after one YouTuber A conservative made a documentary denouncing that federal funds were being misappropriated by daycare centers run by members of the Somali community in this city.
On January 7, a woman was shot and killed by immigration agents.On that occasion, the Department of Homeland Security justified the woman's actions by claiming she was trying to run over officers participating in a mass raid against immigrants and accused her of "domestic terrorism." However, a video circulating on social media showed that the woman was driving slowly when an officer shot at her. This sparked outrage from the mayor and hundreds of residents who took to the streets to protest.
Donald Trump's intimidation campaign The crackdown on the immigrant population is unchecked. It was revealed this Friday that agents of the United States immigration police... A five-year-old boy was arrested on Tuesday at the entrance to his home in the Minneapolis metropolitan area, as he was returning from kindergarten. Since then, the boy, Liam Conejo Ramos, has been detained at an immigration and customs enforcement center in Texas along with his father.
