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Luke Vargas

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Pretti Shooting Escalates Standoff Between Federal Agents, Minnesota Officials

However, bystander footage contradicts that version of events, as Visual Investigations reporter Brenna Smith explains.

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Pretti Shooting Escalates Standoff Between Federal Agents, Minnesota Officials

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.

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Pretti Shooting Escalates Standoff Between Federal Agents, Minnesota Officials

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.

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Pretti Shooting Escalates Standoff Between Federal Agents, Minnesota Officials

Speaking to CBS's Face the Nation, O'Hara described federal operations in the city as having gotten out of hand.

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Pretti Shooting Escalates Standoff Between Federal Agents, Minnesota Officials

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.

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Pretti Shooting Escalates Standoff Between Federal Agents, Minnesota Officials

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.

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Pretti Shooting Escalates Standoff Between Federal Agents, Minnesota Officials

When pressed on how the investigation is being managed, Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox News that more details would be provided in due course.

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Pretti Shooting Escalates Standoff Between Federal Agents, Minnesota Officials

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.

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Pretti Shooting Escalates Standoff Between Federal Agents, Minnesota Officials

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.

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Pretti Shooting Escalates Standoff Between Federal Agents, Minnesota Officials

Meanwhile, back in Washington, Senate Democrats angry over events in Minnesota say they won't vote for a government funding package

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Pretti Shooting Escalates Standoff Between Federal Agents, Minnesota Officials

unless it includes major changes to its homeland security provisions, including constraints on DHS's immigration enforcement activities and more oversight.

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Pretti Shooting Escalates Standoff Between Federal Agents, Minnesota Officials

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.

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Pretti Shooting Escalates Standoff Between Federal Agents, Minnesota Officials

Speaking on NBC's Meet the Press, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar criticized the behavior of ICE and U.S.

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Pretti Shooting Escalates Standoff Between Federal Agents, Minnesota Officials

Border Patrol

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Pretti Shooting Escalates Standoff Between Federal Agents, Minnesota Officials

and called on her colleagues across the aisle to work with Democrats.

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Pretti Shooting Escalates Standoff Between Federal Agents, Minnesota Officials

Klobuchar stopped short of joining other Democrats in calling for abolishing ICE.

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Pretti Shooting Escalates Standoff Between Federal Agents, Minnesota Officials

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.

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Pretti Shooting Escalates Standoff Between Federal Agents, Minnesota Officials

Coming up, the U.S.

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Pretti Shooting Escalates Standoff Between Federal Agents, Minnesota Officials

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.

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Pretti Shooting Escalates Standoff Between Federal Agents, Minnesota Officials

Those stories and more after the break.