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24-min analysis
How #Trump camp has been put on defensive over execution of #AlexPretti
Trumpists trying to get some breathing space w withdrawal of Border Patrol head Bovino from #Minnesota, and w #Trump calls w #Walz and #Frey
But authoritarian regime unlikely to back away from its assault
While there is no sign the aggressive tactics used by immigration enforcement are coming to an end,
#Jacob #Frey, the mayor of Minneapolis said the administration will begin to ✅ scale back the number of federal agents in Minneapolis starting on Tuesday,
as Trump and his team soften their harsh rhetoric about the incident.
Trump said earlier on Monday that his administration was reviewing the shooting of #Alex #Pretti, a 37-year-old VA nurse,
and that he would send “border czar” #Tom #Homan to Minnesota.
Frey said he planned to meet with Homan on Tuesday to “further discuss next steps”.
That marks a departure in the White House’s vehement claims about protesters in Minnesota,
including #Renee #Good, who was killed by an ICE agent earlier this month as she attempted to drive away from federal officers.
🙏🏻A federal judge also heard arguments on Monday about whether to end the federal officer surge in Minneapolis, but a ruling was not expected imminently.
Trump’s ICE crackdown faces reckoning in wake of Alex Pretti shooting
The Trump administration is facing criticism from all sides over the shootings and upscaled enforcement.
The #NRA attacked the suggestion by a Trump-appointed federal prosecutor that armed protest creates “a high likelihood” that federal agents “will be legally justified” to shoot protesters.
Minnesota's governor #Tim #Walz described comments from the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem,
the senior border patrol official Greg Bovino
and other officials about the shooting as “lies”.
Fox News host Laura Ingraham used a #deceitfully #edited clip of Minneapolis Mayor #Jacob #Frey in order to push the lie that he wants the police to take up arms against ICE officers.
Speaking about Frey’s press conference following yet another shooting involving a federal officer,
Ingraham claimed Thursday that the mayor had urged people to “fight ICE” agents
-- when he actually said the exact opposite.
https://newrepublic.com/post/205382/fox-news-edit-minneapolis-frey-ice-takeover
Legendary rocker
#Bruce #Springsteen delivered an impassioned condemnation of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement
during a surprise 75-minute performance Saturday night
at the "Light of Day" benefit concert in Red Bank, New Jersey.
Springsteen dedicated his 1978 anthem "The Promised Land" to #Renee #Nicole #Good, a mother of three and American citizen who was fatally shot by ICE officer Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis on January 7.
The singer slammed the administration's
"#gestapo #tactics" and echoed Democratic Minneapolis Mayor #Jacob #Frey's call for ICE agents to leave the city, telling the sold-out crowd of approximately 1,500 at the Count Basie Center for the Arts that
💯 "ICE should get the f*** out of Minneapolis," according to video viewed from the concert.
Die #Rechtsmimesis & Übergriffe gegen #Föderalismus & #Gewaltenteilung in den #USA werden weiter eskaliert. Nach der Erschießung von #ReneeGood in #Minnesota hatte Donald #Trump Ermittlungen gegen deren Witwe angeordnet, jene gegen den #ICE - Schützen aber einstellen lassen.
Nun soll die nationale #Justiz sowohl gegen den demokratischen Bürgermeister Jacob #Frey wie auch gegen den Gouverneur & einstigen Kandidaten für die Vizepräsidentschaft, Tim #Walz, ermitteln.😳🇺🇸🔥
https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Trump-Ministerium-geht-gegen-Demokraten-in-Minnesota-vor-id30251786.html
🤬 #NBC headline: #DOJ #investigating Gov. Tim #Walz and Mayor Jacob #Frey, sources say. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/doj-investigating-whether-gov-tim-walz-mayor-jacob-frey-impeded-immigr-rcna254501
➡️ (2/2) I understand that #Walz is doing the best he can, and that he and #Frey want to avoid full #civilwar (against someone, who has "bigger guns", like Frey stated), but if the democratic senators and mayors are not activating the national guard and the local police immediately AGAINST #ICE, to protect citizens, the States will be totally lost to the fascist occupators. At this point, the US still has more possibilities than my german ancestors in 1933. But maybe not for long.
LIVE - January 14, 2026 Press conference
👉 Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey speaking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyGSmByXFSg #Minneapolis #ICE #pressconference #mayor #Frey
The mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, is a courageous fighter for democracy and freedom, against Trump fascism. #iceout #frey #minneapolis Renee Nicole Good. Let’s remember her name. And prosecute her murderer the ICE-Agent.
State and local leaders say
they do not believe that the FBI-investigation of the shooting death of #Renee #Nicole #Good will be fair and impartial,
and are sounding alarms about the 💥impact of federal officials holding onto evidence in a potential prosecution of the ICE agent who killed her.
Minnesota’s lead investigative agency, the "bureau of criminal apprehension", initially began investigating the shooting in conjunction with the FBI.
But the #BCA issued a statement Thursday morning saying that
“the US attorney’s office had reversed course:
the investigation would now be led solely by the FBI,
and the BCA would no longer have access to the case materials,
scene evidence or investigative interviews necessary to complete a thorough and independent investigation”.
Hennepin county attorney #Mary #Moriarty, an elected Democrat and the county’s prosecutor, clarified at a press conference Friday that the BCA
– which was established in the wake of the George Floyd case
– has a very high investigative standard and that this standard
can’t be met when the organization doesn’t have access to all the evidence.
It does not preclude an investigation, she said.
But a lack of access to evidence hampers the investigation.
“When the BCA came to the scene, the evidence had been taken by the FBI,” she said.
🆘 “They collected the car and took it wherever the BCA does not have access to the car. And the problem isn’t that the FBI took the car, it’s that 👉the BCA doesn’t have access to the car, or right now, even access to the forensic evaluation that happens as a result of the investigation with that car.”
In a press conference on Friday, the Minneapolis mayor, #Jacob #Frey, described the federal government’s narrative casting Good as the villain as “#garbage” and called on the state to conduct its own investigation.
“This is a time to follow the law,” he said.
“This is not a time to hide from the facts.
This is a time to embrace them,
making sure that we’re pushing for transparency every step of the way.”
“The fact that Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice and this presidential administration has already come to a conclusion about those facts is deeply concerning,” he added.
Media reports have identified the agent who shot Good as Jonathan Ross. ICE agents allowed Ross to #leave the scene in the moments after the shooting, taking the weapon used in the shooting with him.
“It doesn’t preclude a state investigation, but if the feds are saying, for example, you don’t even get to look at the firearm that was used to kill this person, that would certainly complicate it,”
said #Eric J #Nelson, a defense attorney in Minneapolis with a long record of defending police officers accused of crimes.
Nelson represented Derek Chauvin in his murder trial for killing Floyd.
The legal standard for proving a case of excessive force rests on the
🔹“objective reasonableness” of the act as given in the
🔹"Graham v Connor" case decided by the US supreme court in 1989.
From that case flows policies governing when and how police officers can use force.
The standards are essentially the same for both state and federal prosecutions, he said.
The breakdown in cooperation between state and federal agencies in this investigation is “shocking”, Nelson said,
and flies in the face of the public’s expectations of legal norms.
“There may be political differences, but ultimately in a question in a case like this, I don’t really think politics should have a place,” he said.
The Trump administration announced it is #suspending $129m in federal benefit payments to #Minnesota amid allegations of widespread fraud in the state.
The secretary of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Brooke Rollins, shared a letter on Friday on social media that was addressed to Minnesota’s governor, #Tim #Walz, and the mayor of Minneapolis, #Jacob #Frey, notifying them of the administration’s decision and citing investigations into #alleged #fraud conducted by local non-profits and businesses.
⭕ #Minneapolis : Une manifestation bruyante se poursuit devant l'hôtel #Canopy_by_Hilton, où séjourneraient des agents de #l'ICE. Les manifestants exigent l'arrestation de l'agent de #l'ICE #Jonathan_Ross par les gouverneurs #Walz et #Frey.
The ICE agent who murdered 37-year-old Minneapolis mum
#Renee #Nicole #Good has been identified – His name is
#Jonathan #David #Ross,
a decade-long ICE enforcer.
obscured as he left the scene. It has also declined to answer press enquiries.
David Ross’s murder of Good
– in full view of outraged neighbours filming it
– has sparked protests inn Minneapolis and across the US.
The city’s mayor, #Jacob #Frey, said during a press conference yesterday:
⭐️To ICE: get the fuck out of Minneapolis.
🆘The Trump regime continues to try to #whitewash and even #exploit the murder of Renee by David Ross.
Kristy Noem described the victim as a domestic terrorist
and White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt claimed Good died because of a “sinister, left-wing movement that has spread across our country.”
⚠️The FBI has refused to allow Minneapolis law enforcement to investigate the murder.
In a press conference about the killing of Renee Good,
Noem referred to another incident involving the same agent last year
– and gave away enough detail that David Ross could be identified from court records.
The June 2025 incident occurred in Bloomington, Minnesota, when Ross and other agents stopped Mexican citizen #Roberto #Munoz-#Guatemala.
When Munoz-Guatemala ignored the agents order to fully wind down his window
– something that US residents are not obliged to do under US law, Ross broke open the car’s rear window and reached inside to unlock the door.
DHS has refused to disclose the identity of the killer, who was seen in footage of the murder pulling up a scarf to ensure his face was covered
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/01/08/leavitt-renee-ice-murder/
da sagte der Vizekanzler Lars doch extra, die Menschen wären sicher froh, von Weihnachten bis Silvester mal gar nichts von dieser Regierung zu hören.
In diesem Moment beschloss der #Frey die Lunte an den Sprengsatz zum Platzen dieser Regierung zu legen.
#kanzleramtsminister #Frey fühlt sich ausgerechnet Weihnachten mal so frei, den Koalitionsvertrag in Frage zu stellen, nachdem ihm auffiel, wie unüberbrückbar die Gegensätze bei den 3-5 Spitzen der Regierung geworden sind. Was sein Job in 6 Monaten Regierung gewesen wäre, das Überbrücken, Kompromisse besser gestalten, wenn er es gewollt hätte.
Er, der nie ein Blatt vor den Mund nimmt, der nie leise war, ihm soll ich jetzt glauben, er hätte was in seinem Amt versucht, geschweige erreicht? 😑😬
Es gibt Menschen von enormer verbaler Eleganz und erstaunlicher praktischer Leere. Höfisch brillant, operativ unerquicklich. Der Hof liebt solche Figuren. Die Werkstatt nicht. #Frank #Frey
Krankheiten erscheinen in Systemen oft als Metaphern, bevor sie Diagnosen werden. Zittern ist manchmal medizinisch. Manchmal institutionell. #Park #in #son
Identitäten wandern. Heute Amt, morgen Landesbehörde, übermorgen Fotomontage mit Krone. Photoshop ist das höfische Wappen der Moderne.
#LfV #Berlin
