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What recent event in Minnesota sparked a federal investigation?
Live from NPR News, I'm Corva Coleman. Minnesota officials are in a dispute with the federal government. The issue is who will investigate yesterday's shooting death of a Minneapolis protester by a federal immigration agent. State officials obtained a temporary ruling from a federal judge late yesterday. It instructs the federal government to preserve all evidence in the case. U.S.
Democratic Senator Tina Smith of Minnesota says they acted because federal officials have blocked state investigators.
Our state investigators had to get a warrant to have access to the evidence of the shooting of Alex Preti. And even then, the federal agents refused to give them access to the evidence. So this looks very much like another cover-up. as we see that they are having the Department of Homeland Security say, we're going to be handling the investigation, not even the FBI.
She spoke to NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday. Meanwhile, NPR's Ximena Bustillo reports Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is defending the federal agent who killed Alex Preddy.
Nome said that the immigration agent fired defensive shots that killed 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Preti, asserting that he was armed with a handgun. She accused Preti of, quote, brandishing the weapon and attacking officers, but declined to answer questions regarding at what point law enforcement retrieved the weapon.
Immediately after the shooting, a top White House official called Preti a domestic terrorist. This is the third immigration officer involved shooting in Minneapolis this month. Two people have been killed. The agency has surged 2,000 officers into the city to conduct immigration enforcement.
Over the weekend, thousands in Minneapolis took to the streets to protest the conduct of immigration officers. Ximena Bustillo, NPR News, Washington.
There's a powerful winter storm hammering much of the country this morning. The National Weather Service has posted winter storm warnings from New Mexico up to Maine's border with Canada. Some areas will get feet of snow, but a big danger is ice. About three-quarters of a million customers are now out of power in the midst of the storm.
From member station WPLN in Nashville, Blake Farmer reports on the dangers of ice.
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