Martin Costi
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Walz announced on social media that he'd spoken to Trump and that Trump, quote, agreed to look into reducing the number of federal agents in Minnesota, unquote.
In an interview with Minnesota Public Radio, Walls added that Customs and Border Protection Commander-at-Large Greg Bovino would leave the state.
Since last summer, Bovino has been the face of immigration enforcement surges in Los Angeles, Chicago, New Orleans, and now the Twin Cities, where he said without evidence that Alex Preddy had intended to, quote, massacre law enforcement agents before he was shot and killed.
Bovino also provoked local anger by referring to the Border Patrol agents as the victims in that incident.
Wall said Trump would send in ICE veteran and border czar Tom Homan to take over the operation in Minnesota.
I think what's not normal here is the way the federal officials have been publicly passing judgment on a case that's still being investigated.
For instance, just today, the vice president posted a video that appears to have come from a device being held by the agent who shot Renee Good on Wednesday.
It shows Good smiling and saying she's not mad at the officer.
But Vance called the video evidence that the officer was in danger.
So there seems to be a real disconnect right now.
basic level of what the evidence means.
The standard is that the officer has to have an objectively reasonable perception that there's an imminent threat.
What's interesting is recently, just in May, the Supreme Court amplified that a little bit in a case called Barnes v. Felix.
It says you have to look beyond just the split second of decision and look at the context of the situation.
taking into account perhaps what the officer did leading up to the situation, perhaps whether he or she decided to step out of the way.
And if these cases make it to court, I think that could become quite relevant here.
The number of people held by ICE at any one time has ballooned.