Protesters demand immigration agents leave Minneapolis

Protesters person taken to the streets successful Minneapolis, successful the authorities of Minnesota, aft a United States Border Patrol cause killed a US citizen, heightening tensions successful a metropolis already shaken by a deadly shooting conscionable weeks earlier of a parent of three.

Minneapolis constabulary main Brian O’Hara told reporters that a 37-year-old man, a Minneapolis resident, died successful infirmary connected Saturday aft being changeable aggregate times.

Family members identified him arsenic Alex Pretti, an intensive attraction portion caregiver who had antecedently protested against President Donald Trump’s migration crackdown successful the city.

After the shooting, an aggravated assemblage gathered, and protesters clashed with national officers, who wielded batons and deployed flashbang grenades.

The Minnesota National Guard was assisting section constabulary astatine the absorption of Governor Tim Walz, officials said. Guard troops were sent to the tract of the shooting and to a national gathering wherever officers person been facing disconnected with demonstrators connected a regular basis.

Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said successful a connection that national officers had been conducting an cognition and fired “defensive shots” aft a antheral with a handgun approached them and “violently resisted” erstwhile they tried to disarm him.

In bystander videos of the shooting that emerged soon afterwards, Pretti is seen holding a mobile phone, but nary appears to amusement him with a disposable weapon.

Pretti was changeable astir 1 mile (1.6km) from the spot wherever an ICE serviceman killed 37-year-old Renee Good connected January 7, which led to wide protests.