United States (US) President Donald Trump commented on the shooting in Minneapolis. He considered the Mayor of Minneapolis inciting rebellion after the shooting.
Summarized detikcomMonday (26/1/2026), US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers shot a US citizen in Minneapolis to death on Saturday (24/1) local time. The incident sparked strong protests and condemnation from local leaders.
Reported Reutersthe Department of Homeland Security described the incident as an attack. US authorities said border patrol agents fired in self-defense after a man approached with a gun and violently resisted attempts to disarm him.
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However, video from witnesses at the scene verified by Reuters showed the man, identified as Alex Pretti, 37, holding a phone in his hand, not a firearm. He was said to have tried to help other protesters who had been pushed to the ground by agents.
The video also shows Pretti filming federal agents pushing a woman and shoving another person to the ground. Pretti then moved between the agent and the women and raised his left arm to protect himself and turned around as the agent sprayed him with pepper spray.
When Pretti turned around and tried to help the woman who had fallen, the immigration agent continued to spray her. As Pretti lifts the woman, agents pull her away from the woman and Pretti appears to be forced to her knees by several agents.
One of them pulled something from Pretti’s waist and then quickly walked away from the scene. Moments later, an officer with a gun pointed at Pretti’s back fired four shots at him in quick succession.
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Photo Alex Pretti (Photo: AFP/ROBERTO SCHMIDT)
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Several more shots are then heard as another agent appears to shoot Pretti. Next, all the agents withdrew from Pretti’s body.
Several agents appeared to offer medical assistance to Pretti as he lay on the ground. Meanwhile, other agents kept other residents from approaching.
The shooting incident then sparked hundreds of people to stage demonstrations to confront armed and masked agents, who used tear gas and stun grenades. Demonstrations also took place in New York, Washington DC, and San Francisco.
It also increased tensions between US state and federal officials. Officials have been at odds with the Trump administration over the shooting of another US citizen, Renee Good, on January 7. They refused to allow local officials to participate in the investigation of the incident.
Returning to Pretti, her family said the man was a nurse. The family said Pretti was a good person.
“Pretti was a kind soul who cared deeply about her family and friends and those she cared for at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital,” her parents said in a statement. AFPSunday (25/1).
Trump Accuses Minneapolis Walkot of Inciting Rebellion
US President Donald Trump later accused Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz of ‘inciting insurrection’. He said the two officials used arrogant rhetoric.
“The Mayor and Governor are inciting rebellion, with their arrogant, dangerous and arrogant rhetoric!” Trump said in his statement via Truth Social.
Both Frey and Walz, who were accused by Trump, are from the Democratic Party. Meanwhile, Trump is a Republican politician.
Trump blamed Democratic Party leadership in Minneapolis and Minnesota for the deaths of two US citizens shot by federal ICE agents. He said local leaders refused to comply with the ongoing immigration crackdown.
“Tragically, two American citizens lost their lives as a result of this chaos wrought by the Democratic Party,” Trump said.
Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act which would allow him to deploy US military forces to the state of Minnesota for law enforcement purposes. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees ICE, claims Pretti ‘approached US Border Patrol officers armed with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun’ and ‘put up vigorous resistance’ when officers attempted to disarm the firearm he was carrying.
“Out of fear for his life and the lives and safety of his fellow officers, an agent opened fire in self-defense. Medical officers at the scene immediately provided medical assistance to the perpetrator, but he was pronounced dead at the scene,” explained DHS in a statement via X’s social media.
DHS also said the shooting occurred during a “targeted operation in Minneapolis against an illegal immigrant wanted for violent assault.” The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Kash Patel, said civilians ‘should not bring firearms containing multiple magazines to any protest site’.
But Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told CBS News that there is no ban on bringing legally owned firearms to protests. He owned the gun Pretti was carrying legally.
The Mayor of Minneapolis, Gray, later criticized Trump’s move to deploy US federal agents to his area. Gray publicly called on Trump to ‘end this operation and recognize that it does not create security in our city’.
“How many more citizens, how many more Americans, must be killed or seriously injured for this operation to end?” Gray asked as reported by The Guardian.
Walz also made a similar call as Governor of Minnesota. He called on Trump to withdraw federal troops.
“Minnesota believes in law and order. We believe in peace. And we believe that Trump needs to pull his 3,000 untrained agents out of Minnesota before they kill other Americans in the streets,” he said.
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