Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Another American citizen has been shot and killed by immigration officers in Minneapolis as protests against immigration enforcement intensify across the nation. 37-year-old Alex Prette was an ICU nurse who treated veterans. Meanwhile, in Washington, Democrats are threatening to pull out of the funding deal reached last week because of the money being provided for immigration enforcement.
If they do so, that would trigger another government shutdown.
Chapter 2: What happened in Minneapolis regarding Alex Pretti's death?
Hello and welcome to USA Today's The Excerpt. I'm Dana Taylor. Today is Tuesday, January 27th, 2026. Here to help us understand this inflection point and how the country is responding to immigration enforcement is USA Today breaking news reporter Christopher Kahn. Christopher, thank you so much for making the time to come back on the show.
Thanks for having me.
Let's start with the news out of Minneapolis over the weekend, the killing of Alex Preddy. What happened there?
So on Saturday morning, Alex Preddy, as you mentioned, an ICU nurse who worked at a VA hospital in Minneapolis, he was shot and killed by Border Patrol agents. He was one of several people who were filming agents at the time while they were conducting enforcement operations. That's become a very common practice in Minneapolis in recent weeks.
The videos quickly were shared online about the shooting and show Pretty holding up his phone and recording agents. At one point, one of them pushes a woman who was standing near Pretty to the ground. Pretty could be seen then trying to help her and lead her away when he's pepper sprayed and taken to the ground.
He's surrounded by Border Patrol agents and then one of them eventually opens fire, killing him. Now, local and federal officials both say that Preddy had a gun on him while he was filming federal agents that morning. Brian O'Hara, the police chief in Minneapolis, said he has a concealed carry permit.
No videos show him pulling out a gun before he was tackled to the ground, and it appears his gun was removed before officers began firing. Now, Preddy's death, of course, comes less than three weeks after
An ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in her car, and it reignited protests in Minneapolis, as well as renewed calls for immigration agents to leave the city and the Trump administration to end the deployment there.
Border Patrol leadership presented a very different narrative of events. What were they saying and have they made any attempt to reconcile their version with what we've all seen with our own eyes?
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