The US deputy attorney general announced on Friday that the justice department has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of the Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti last Saturday by immigration officers, as fierce protests continued on the streets there.
“We’re looking at everything that would shed light on that day,” Todd Blanche, deputy to the attorney general, Pam Bondi, said at a press conference on Friday morning in Washington DC.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) also said on Friday that the FBI would lead the investigation into the latest killing.
Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse at the military veterans hospital in Minneapolis and an activist, died while protesting against aggressive immigration raids and protester-control tactics by officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), border patrol and other federal agencies.
He was the third person shot during the surge of immigration enforcement personnel sent to the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and Saint Paul in Minnesota by
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