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Minneapolis reels after federal agents kill another U.S.

citizen.

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It's Monday, January 26th.

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President Trump says his administration is investigating the killing of intensive care nurse Alex Preddy by federal agents in Minneapolis over the weekend.

Speaking to the Journal yesterday, Trump repeatedly declined to say whether the officer who shot Preddy had acted appropriately, though he also criticized Preddy for carrying a gun during protest activity, calling his 9mm semi-automatic handgun, quote, "...very dangerous and unpredictable."

Those comments come after the Department of Homeland Security alleged that Preddy violently resisted officers trying to disarm him, leading them to fire, quote, defensive shots.

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