Minnesota ICE live updates: Stephen Miller admits agents involved in fatal shooting of Alex Pretti may not have followed ‘protocol’ – UK Times

A woman who filmed the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti at the hands of Border Patrol has said she still has not been contacted by the federal government.

When asked in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper what that tells her about the situation, Stella Carlson said, “That they’re protecting themselves and they don’t care about the truth of what happened.”

The Department of Homeland Security said Pretti approached federal officers with a handgun in Minneapolis over the weekend and that, “fearing for his life,” an agent fired “defensive shots.” Footage of the incident appears to show Pretti with a phone in his hand, not a gun. A gun was tucked into his waistband, according to the footage.

A review by Customs and Border Protection’s internal watchdog did not say that Alex Pretti brandished a gun during a confrontation with federal agents that resulted in his death, according to an email sent to Congress that was reviewed by The New York Times.

Pretti, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen, was fatally shot by Border Patrol in Minneapolis over the weekend.

The Department of Homeland Security said a person approached officers with a handgun during a targeted operation against an “illegal alien wanted for violent assault.” According to footage of the incident, Pretti had his gun tucked in his waistband.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has called for every single Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent to leave Minnesota immediately.

“Alex Pretti did not deserve to die. Renee Nicole Good did not deserve to die,” Schumer wrote on X Tuesday, referring to the two fatal shootings involving federal immigration agents in Minneapolis this past month. “Enough is enough. ALL of ICE out of Minnesota now.”

Schumer has also signaled he will not support a House-passed spending bill to keep the government open because of the funding it gives to the Department of Homeland Security.

“I will vote no on any legislation that funds ICE until it is reined in and overhauled, and Senate Democrats are overwhelmingly united on this issue,” he said on the Senate floor Tuesday.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has reacted after Representative Ilhan Omar was sprayed with an unknown substance at a Minneapolis town hall Tuesday night.

“I’m glad that Congresswoman Omar is safe,” Walz wrote on X. “Our state has been shattered by political violence in the last year. The cruel, inflammatory, dehumanizing rhetoric by our nation’s leaders needs to stop immediately.”

Minnesota lawmakers Melissa Hortman and John Hoffman were targeted in two separate attacks in June 2025. Vance Boelter has been accused of murdering Hortman and injuring Hoffman in the shootings.

President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan has said that his meetings with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and “top law enforcement officials” on Tuesday were a “starting point” amid tensions between federal immigration agents and the city.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said Secretary Kristi Noem should go after the killing of Alex Pretti.“

As the Secretary of Homeland Security, I would not support her again, and I think it probably is time for her to step down,” she told The Independent.

“She’s taken a direction that has not been helpful to the situation and I don’t think that it helps the country.”

Representative Nancy Mace, a South Carolina Republican who has harshly criticized her Democratic colleague Ilhan Omar in the past, has said that she is “deeply disturbed” after the Minnesota congresswoman was sprayed with an unknown substance at a Minneapolis town hall Tuesday night.

“I am deeply disturbed to learn that Rep. Ilhan Omar was attacked at a town hall today. Regardless of how vehemently I disagree with her rhetoric – and I do – no elected official should face physical attacks. This is not who we are,” Mace wrote on X.

U.S. Capitol Police has said that the man who “decided to assault” Representative Ilhan Omar will face “the most serious charges possible.”

Omar was speaking at a town hall in Minneapolis Tuesday night when she was sprayed with an unknown substance. She is “okay,” according to her team.

”Tonight, a man is in custody after he decided to assault a Member of Congress – an unacceptable decision that will be met with swift justice,” Capitol Police said in a statement shared by Fox News’ Chad Pergram. “We are now working with our federal partners to see this man faces the most serious charges possible to deter this kind of violence in our society.”

Representative Ilhan Omar has responded after getting sprayed with an unknown substance at a Minneapolis town hall Tuesday night.

“I’ve survived war and I’m definitely going to survive intimidation and whatever these people think they can throw at me because I’m built that way,” the Minnesota Democrat told CNN after the incident.

Omar was born in Somalia and fled civil war with her family when she was just a girl. They later immigrated to America in the 1990s.

Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar is “okay” and continued her town hall in Minneapolis Tuesday night after a man sprayed her with an unknown substance, her office said.