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Videos emerged on Wednesday of a previous confrontation between Alex Pretti and federal agents, 11 days before the ICU nurse was fatally shot<\/strong> by federal officers in Minneapolis<\/a>.<\/strong> About two minutes of video, published on Wednesday by The News Movement, a digital news outlet, shows an incident on 13 January in Minneapolis in which officers appeared to grab Pretti and bring him to the ground during intense community protests against the federal crackdown in the city.<\/p>\n Sahan Journal, a nonprofit news site that reports on immigrants and communities of color in Minnesota<\/a>, reported that day that dozens of residents had showed up to protest and observe a federal immigration sweep in the area. On the same morning, just two blocks away, a young woman named Aliya Rahman was violently pulled from her car while trying to drive past federal immigration agents and roughly treated in an image that prompted widespread outrage.<\/p>\n Steve Schleicher<\/strong>, an attorney representing Pretti\u2019s family, said in a statement, \u201cA week before Alex was gunned down in the street \u2013 despite posing no threat to anyone \u2013 he was violently assaulted by a group of ICE agents. Nothing that happened a full week before could possibly have justified Alex\u2019s killing.\u201d<\/p>\n In other news:<\/p>\n White House Border tsar Tom Homan is expected to address the press in Minneapolis<\/strong> after being sent to take the reins on the Trump administration\u2019s immigration crackdown in Minnesota<\/strong>. ICE officers in the state were directed to avoid engaging with \u201cagitators,\u201d and only target \u201caliens with a criminal history,\u201d according to an internal memo reviewed by Reuters.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Senate Democrats have threatened to block legislation that would fund the Department of Homeland Security and several other agencies,<\/strong> potentially bringing the government a step closer to a partial shutdown if Republicans and the White House do not agree to new restrictions on President Donald Trump\u2019s surge of immigration enforcement. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer<\/strong> said Wednesday that Democrats won\u2019t provide needed votes until US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is \u201creined in and overhauled.\u201d In posts on X, Schumer also ramped up the pressure for DHS secretary Kristi Noem<\/strong> and top Trump aide Stephen Miller<\/strong> to go, and repeated calls for the president to pull ICE agents out of Minnesota.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n A federal judge in Minnesota<\/a> blocked the Trump administration from arresting and detaining the 5,600 refugees living in the state. <\/strong>In a ruling issued on Wednesday, US district judge John R Tunheim granted the Advocates for Human Rights, which represents midwesterners seeking asylum, a temporary restraining order blocking Operation Post-Admission Refugee Reverification and Integrity Strengthening (\u201cOperation Parris\u201d). He also ordered the Department of Homeland Security to release and return to Minnesota anyone already detained by the administration under the operation.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The parents of Alexi Pretti retained a former federal prosecutor who helped Minnesota\u2019s attorney general convict police officer Derek Chauvin of the murder of George Floyd. <\/strong>Pretti\u2019s family has retained Steve Schleicher, a partner at the Minneapolis<\/a> firm Maslon, who served as a special prosecutor in the 2021 trial over Floyd\u2019s murder. Schleicher has taken on the case pro bono, PBS News reports. Earlier this month, the family of Renee Good, who was also killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, retained another lawyer involved in the George Floyd case \u2013 the Chicago-based firm Romanucci & Blandin, which represented Floyd\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed that the two officers involved in the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti on Saturday have been placed on administrative leave <\/strong>as \u201cis the standard protocol\u201d. But it\u2019s currently unclear exactly when they were placed on leave. Federal law enforcement officers who have been involved in a shooting are typically placed on administrative leave for the course of the investigation. <\/p>\n The confirmation is also in direct contradiction to what border patrol commander Greg Bovino<\/strong> said in the aftermath of the shooting. On Sunday, he told a press conference that \u201call agents that were involved in that scene are working, not in Minneapolis, but in other locations, that\u2019s for their safety.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n