The fatal shooting of a Minnesota man by federal officers this weekend — as well as the Department of Homeland Security’s quick assessment of the incident — has spurred even some typically ardent Trump loyalists to call for an investigation into the shooting.
On Monday, a handful of Senate Republicans called for an independent investigation, and potentially more guardrails, into Immigration and Customs Enforcement after the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an intensive-care nurse, by federal agents in Minneapolis Saturday morning.
The Trump administration said the agent involved in the shooting acted in self-defense, a claim contradicted by witness accounts and video. Immediately after the shooting, which happened fewer than three weeks after a separate officer shot and killed another Minneapolis resident, Renee Good, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem called Pretti a “domestic terrorist.”
