Matt Sepik

Fry said Trump agreed that the present situation cannot continue.

And Governor Walz says the president seemed earnest.

Wall says Trump agreed to consider reducing the number of federal agents here and allow state police to investigate the killings of Renee Macklin Good on January 7th and Alex Preddy on Saturday.

There is little that state police can do without their federal counterparts, and there's still no indication whether the feds are cooperating.

After Good was killed, the Department of Homeland Security blocked Minnesota's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension from investigating.

Then Saturday, DHS refused to let the BCA access the area where Pretty was killed, even after the state got a search warrant.

A judge ordered the feds not to destroy any evidence.

That order remains in place even as the Justice Department challenges it.

In court yesterday, Assistant U.S.

Attorney Fred Seekert argued that the feds are already preserving the evidence, but state attorney Peter Farrell said he's not so sure because top administration officials called Preti a domestic terrorist within hours of his death.

During a hearing yesterday, state attorneys argued that the presence of so many federal agents in Minnesota is overwhelming local public safety resources.

They also say the Justice Department is extorting the state.

They pointed to a letter that Attorney General Pam Bondi sent to Walls on Saturday in which she demands that Minnesota hand over its voter rolls.

The DOJ calls the lawsuit frivolous and says the federal government has the right to enforce immigration laws.

In yet another case, Minnesota's chief federal judge Patrick Schultz has ordered acting ICE director Todd Lyons to appear personally in court here on Friday.

Schultz says the agency has failed to comply with dozens of orders to provide hearings for people who are alleging that they are being unlawfully detained.

Schultz writes, quote, the court's patience is at an end.

People are continuing to mourn the deaths of Renee Macklingood and now Alex Prette with protests and vigils.

And despite the apparent detente, thousands of masked agents remain, and many residents are seeking some sort of assurance that the killings will get a proper investigation.

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