Support amongst House Democrats for impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accelerated rapidly on Monday, with more than a dozen new members joining the effort after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. The articles had 140 co-sponsors by Monday afternoon, nearly two-thirds of the 213 voting members of the House Democratic caucus.
The explosive growth came after Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse, was shot and killed on Saturday morning whilst being tackled to the ground by Customs and Border Protection officers. Pretti was attempting to film federal agents conducting an immigration operation when he was surrounded, sprayed with a chemical irritant, pinned down, and shot multiple times.
