Tracy Mumford

On Saturday morning, Alex Preddy, a Minneapolis resident who worked as an ICU nurse at the VA, had gathered with a small group of protesters near where federal agents were operating.

These kinds of scenes have become common in Minneapolis and across the country.

Demonstrators opposed to the administration's aggressive immigration enforcement come to blow whistles or record on their phones.

Videos show Preddy stepped between a woman and an agent who was pepper spraying her.

He was then pepper sprayed, and a group of agents piled onto him.

They pinned him down and appeared to pull a handgun off of Preddy's hip before agents opened fire, killing him.

Videos show Preddy, who had a permit to carry a firearm, never drew his weapon.

This looks like a situation where an individual arrived at the scene to inflict maximum damage on individuals and to kill law enforcement.

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem immediately claimed Preddy assaulted the officers.

That was echoed by the head of the FBI, Kash Patel.

And by a senior Border Patrol official, Gregory Bovino.

Stephen Miller, one of President Trump's top advisers, went further, calling Preddy a would-be assassin and a domestic terrorist.

Administration officials made similar claims, with no evidence, about Renee Good, who was killed in her car by an ICE agent in Minneapolis earlier this year.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said he had called the White House to demand that the state handle the investigation into Preddy's death, saying the federal government cannot be trusted.

Despite that, state authorities say they've been cut out again, like they were after Good's killing.

Over the weekend, they took the extraordinary measure of getting an emergency court order to bar federal officials from destroying any evidence.

Still, they say they haven't received basic facts from the government, like the identities of the agents who opened fire.

In Washington, meanwhile, the uproar over Preddy's killing could lead to a partial government shutdown at the end of the week.

The Senate was set to vote on legislation that funds a broad range of government programs.

But some key Democrats now say they're opposed to it, since it includes over $60 billion for DHS, including $10 billion specifically for ICE.