Pretti Shooting Escalates Standoff Between Federal Agents, Minnesota Officials
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Minneapolis reels after federal agents kill another U.S. citizen.
They shot that guy. I know. They have shot a man. They have shot a legal observer.
We'll get reaction from around the country, plus the rest of the day's news, including a massive scandal at the very top of China's military leadership. It's Monday, January 26th. I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories moving your world today. President Trump says his administration is investigating the killing of intensive care nurse Alex Preddy by federal agents in Minneapolis over the weekend. Speaking to the Journal yesterday, Trump repeatedly declined to say whether the officer who shot Preddy had acted appropriately, though he also criticized Preddy for carrying a gun during protest activity, calling his 9mm semi-automatic handgun, quote, "...very dangerous and unpredictable."
Those comments come after the Department of Homeland Security alleged that Preddy violently resisted officers trying to disarm him, leading them to fire, quote, defensive shots. However, bystander footage contradicts that version of events, as Visual Investigations reporter Brenna Smith explains.
The Wall Street Journal reviewed numerous bystander footage of Preddy's encounter with DHS agents, including before, during, and after the shooting. What these videos show is before the shooting, Preddy was seemingly with two other civilians and filming DHS agents with his phone. Eventually, after filming the agents, Preti and two other civilians walk away. And one of the agents follows them and then shoves one of the people that Preti seems to be with. And Preti immediately puts himself between the fallen person and the officer, who then sprays a chemical agent on all three of them. And that's when things really start to kick off. And a crowd of DHS agents then swarms the civilians. They separate Preddy from the other two civilians that he was with.
And bystander footage then shows one officer seemingly withdrawing a gun from Preddy. And soon after, another officer begins to fire at him. We spoke with one expert who confirmed that there were at least 10 shots within five seconds based on the available audio, and that they all seemed to come from a single semi-automatic firearm. After the shooting, bystander footage also shows officers then shouting, where is the gun, as they're applying first aid to Preti.
What happened during the recent federal shooting incident in Minneapolis?
Following Preddy's killing, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara ordered that his officers not leave the crime scene, despite being told that they weren't needed. The state of Minnesota's top criminal investigators then took on the case, only for them to be blocked by federal officers, including after they obtained a signed search warrant. Speaking to CBS's Face the Nation, O'Hara described federal operations in the city as having gotten out of hand.
We understand that for as long as there has been ICE, there has been immigration enforcement in Minnesota. The problem is not that enforcement is happening. It's clearly the manner in which these things are happening. These tactics are very obviously not safe, and it is generating a lot of outrage and fear in the community.
A hearing is scheduled for today in Minnesota federal court in a suit brought by the state's attorney general that seeks to bar Homeland Security and Justice Department officials from destroying or concealing evidence related to Saturday's shooting.
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