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However, bystander footage contradicts that version of events, as Visual Investigations reporter Brenna Smith explains.
Following Preddy's killing, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara ordered that his officers not leave the crime scene, despite being told that they weren't needed.
The state of Minnesota's top criminal investigators then took on the case, only for them to be blocked by federal officers, including after they obtained a signed search warrant.
Speaking to CBS's Face the Nation, O'Hara described federal operations in the city as having gotten out of hand.
A hearing is scheduled for today in Minnesota federal court in a suit brought by the state's attorney general that seeks to bar Homeland Security and Justice Department officials from destroying or concealing evidence related to Saturday's shooting.
A Homeland Security spokeswoman defended the actions of immigration agents and described claims that evidence was destroyed as, quote, an attempt to divide the American people.
When pressed on how the investigation is being managed, Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox News that more details would be provided in due course.
In addition to widening a rift between divisions of law enforcement, Saturday's killing is spurring gun rights advocates to issue rare criticism of the Trump administration, following comments like this from FBI Director Kash Patel on Fox News' Sunday Morning Futures.
The Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus called Patel's statement completely incorrect on Minnesota law, while the National Rifle Administration said officials shouldn't be demonizing law-abiding citizens.
Meanwhile, back in Washington, Senate Democrats angry over events in Minnesota say they won't vote for a government funding package
unless it includes major changes to its homeland security provisions, including constraints on DHS's immigration enforcement activities and more oversight.
That's teeing up a potential government shutdown this coming weekend, something that many Senate Democrats had initially sought to avoid after last year's record-setting funding lapse.
Speaking on NBC's Meet the Press, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar criticized the behavior of ICE and U.S.
Border Patrol
and called on her colleagues across the aisle to work with Democrats.
Klobuchar stopped short of joining other Democrats in calling for abolishing ICE.
Voting against the DHS funding measure would do little to rein in immigration enforcement in the short term, given that last year's tax and spending package set aside more than $4 billion to hire and train more Border Patrol agents.
Coming up, the U.S.
digs out after a major winter storm and a vaccine showdown as pediatricians take issue with the CDC's paired back shot recommendations for kids.
Those stories and more after the break.