Minnesota Gov Walz demands Trump remove border agents after nurse killed
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Minnesota’s Democratic governor, Tim Walz, has demanded that US President Donald Trump pull “untrained” federal immigration agents out of the state after the fatal shooting of a demonstrator in Minneapolis, the second such killing in the city amid an ongoing immigration crackdown.
As calls mounted for an independent investigation into the killing of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, Walz posed a question directly to Trump during a news briefing on Sunday.
Who was Alex Pretti, the nurse shot dead by federal agents in Minneapolis?
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“What’s the plan, Donald Trump? What is the plan?” Walz asked.
“What do we need to do to get these federal agents out of our state? You thought fear, violence and chaos is what you wanted from us? Then you clearly underestimate the people of this state and nation.”
“We believe in law and order in this state; we believe in peace,” Walz added. “And we believe that Donald Trump needs to pull these 3,000 untrained agents out of Minnesota before they kill another person.”
Walz’s comments came after senior Trump administration officials defended Pretti’s killing, despite graphic video evidence appearing to contradict their accounts.