Clay Masters

He also says the president would consider ensuring the state could conduct independent investigations into the killings of Alex Preti and Renee Macklin Good.

Walls says Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Greg Bovino and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will not be returning to the Twin Cities.

For NPR News, I'm Clay Masters in St.

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Whether it was morality or bad optics and poll numbers, whatever has happened here, there is a definite change of tone.

There is definitely a more collaborative tone.

I want to make sure that I'm not jeopardizing that, that I'm going to take them for their word right now, that they're going to reduce this force.

So the video shows Alex Preddy in this neighborhood in Minneapolis, a little after nine in the morning.

There was a person who was shoved to the ground.

Preddy appears to be trying to support this person who was shoved to the ground.

And during that, you see a swarm of federal agents approach him.

He has his phone out and then it escalates very quickly.

Federal officials have said that Preti approached agents in a threatening manner with a gun before he was shot and killed by an officer.

But it's very important to note here that video and eyewitness testimony from NPR News dispute that account.

I want to come at this a couple of ways.

Number one, I think it's important just for context.

On Friday, a producer and myself went out to some of these neighborhoods when there was this general strike that was happening where a lot of businesses had closed their doors.

Some of those businesses remained open to provide community support, to provide coffee to some of these witnesses, these ICE observers, as we've been seeing pop up in the Twin Cities, people who are keeping their eye on the streets and then alerting people.

When immigration customs enforcement agents are in the area.

I talked with people who were at these different businesses who were talking about the fear that they have the concern that they have, but also just the community coming together to look after their neighbors.