Shumita Basu

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By now, many, if not most, Americans have seen for themselves the video that captures the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Preddy, shot by a Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis over the weekend.

In the footage, Preddy is wrestled to the ground by a group of officers.

The Department of Homeland Security says he had a handgun, which he had a permit to carry.

Officers can be heard shouting that he has a gun, and they pull what appears to be a firearm from his waist area.

Video analysis from multiple news outlets suggests he never unholstered a weapon.

And just after one agent seemed to disarm him, at least one other officer fired multiple shots.

His death comes just a couple of weeks after that of another Minneapolis resident, Renee Good.

As with Good, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem described Pretty's behavior as, quote, domestic terrorism.

She said this without providing evidence and before any formal investigation had taken place.

Minneapolis' police chief, Brian O'Hara, said Pretty appeared to be exercising his Second Amendment rights.

The city's mayor, Jacob Fry, condemned the Trump administration and again urged enforcement agents to leave the city.

On CNN, Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino agreed with Noem that Preddy had been, quote, brandishing a weapon, but that isn't clear from the video.

He described Preddy as the suspect.

Mariah Timms is a national legal affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and was in Minneapolis over the weekend.

Timms told us about Preddy, an ICU nurse at a Veterans Affairs hospital with no criminal record.

Tim's reports that Preddy put himself between an immigration officer and another individual who that agent shoved to the ground and was pepper spraying.

Friends, colleagues, and those who knew him well told the journal that standing up for others was indicative of who Preddy was as a person.

On Friday, thousands had braved the brutal cold shutting down streets as hundreds of businesses closed to demand ICE leave the city.

Minneapolis Commissioner O'Hara called for federal agencies to operate in the city with discipline and humanity and urged illegal crowds to disperse and remain peaceful.