Brian Baxt

Preddy was shot multiple times as Border Patrol agents tried to arrest him while he was recording immigration officers on his phone.

Blanche says the probe is separate from Homeland Security's shooting investigation.

He says the fatal shooting of another U.S.

citizen, Renee Macklin-Good, is not receiving similar DOJ scrutiny.

For NPR News, I'm Brian Baxt in St.

Paul.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed that Alex Preddy's death last Saturday is being examined for possible civil rights violations.

Preddy was shot multiple times as Border Patrol agents tried to arrest him while he was recording immigration officers on his phone.

Blanche says the probe is separate from Homeland Security's shooting investigation.

He says the fatal shooting of another U.S.

citizen, Renee Macklin-Good, is not receiving similar DOJ scrutiny.

For NPR News, I'm Brian Baxt in St.

Paul.

President Trump positively appraised his call with Governor Walz.

On social media, Trump wrote that the two, quote, seemed to be on a similar wavelength.

The takeaway from Walz is that Trump is open to ramping down an operation that has a few thousand federal agents on the ground.

It comes after the weekend fatal shooting by Border Patrol agents of ICU nurse and U.S.

citizen Alex Preddy and Renee Macklin-Good, who was killed by an ICE agent earlier this month.

A statement from the governor's office also says Trump would talk with the Department of Homeland Security about involving state criminal investigators into the probes.

Trump says top border official Tom Homan will travel to Minnesota and speak with Walz.