Pressure mounted on Donald Trump’s administration on Sunday to fully investigate the previous day’s killing by federal immigration officers of 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
Calls for an investigation have come from all sides of the political divide after video analysis showed officers had removed from Pretti a handgun he was reportedly permitted to carry – and which he was not handling – before fatally shooting him.
Republican US senator Bill Cassidy said the “credibility” of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) were “at stake”.
“There must be a full joint federal and state investigation,” Cassidy wrote in a post on X, after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer shot Renee Nicole Good to death on 7 January and border patrol officers fatally shot Pretti on Saturday. “We can trust the American people with the truth.”
Other Democrat lawmakers, including US House member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, both of New York, also issued calls for federal immigration authorities to leave Minnesota.
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