Tamara Keith

Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast for Monday, January 26th.

I'm Tamara Keith.

I cover the White House.

And we also have with us Minnesota Public Radio's Clay Masters.

Hi, Clay.

And today on the show, federal agents shot and killed another American in Minneapolis over the weekend.

37-year-old Alex Preddy was an intensive care unit nurse at a VA hospital.

He was using his phone to film ICE agents.

When the situation rapidly escalated within seconds, half a dozen masked agents were pinning him to the ground face down, and then he was shot in the back multiple times.

Clay, we know this because there was video, a lot of it.

What more can you tell us about what happened?

Federal officials, including the Homeland Security Secretary, say that he brandished it, that he brought it.

aiming to do maximum harm.

What the video seems to show is that he wasn't brandishing, he was holding his phone, and he was disarmed before he was shot, just like a second before he was shot.

Clay, how are state and local officials responding to these events?

And what has it been like there in Minnesota?

Domenico, after the shooting of Renee Macklin Good, there was a pretty quick retreat into partisan corners.

People looked at that video of her in her vehicle being shot and saw different things.

This feels different.

I'm seeing more Republicans say, no, a thorough investigation is needed.