Oliver Conway
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We're recording this at 16 hours GMT on Monday the 26th of January.
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It is rare for ex-presidents to criticise their successors, but the killing of a second US citizen during the current immigration crackdown in Minneapolis has prompted two former American leaders to speak out.
Bill Clinton called on people to stand up for their rights, while Barack Obama said the death of Alex Preti should be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values are under assault.
The 37-year-old intensive care nurse was shot dead on Saturday after being forced to the ground by ICE agents.
The killing prompted anger in the city.
But supporters of the immigration crackdown criticised protesters and political leaders who backed them.
Kevin Toohey spent 27 years at the Immigration Enforcement Agency.
The governor of the state, Tim Walz, has stated to people, and of course the mayor, to go out there to record and get in their face, get in their business.
And when law enforcement professionals are conducting operations, they do not need people around them harassing them, bothering them,
adding to their extra stress, okay?
They're already worried about arresting this person.
Is this person going to have a gun?
Is this person going to fight me?
But when you're surrounded by an additional 50 or 100 people yelling, blowing whistles at you, disrupting everything, that causes extra stress and additional factors to the arrest of that person.
However, police said Alex Preti held the weapon legally, and the gun owners of America issued a statement saying... The government claimed Alex Preti had threatened the ICE agents with his pistol...
But footage of the incident appears to show that he never drew his weapon and was shot multiple times after it had been taken away from him by one of the agents.