MINNEAPOLIS: Former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton issued pointed calls on Sunday for America to stand up and defend their values after the second killing of a citizen in Minneapolis by immigration agents that Donald Trump blamed on Democratic &quot;chaos.&quot; The Trump administration has faced intensifying pressure over its mass immigration crackdown, particularly after federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, Saturday while scuffling with him on an icy roadway. That incident came less than three weeks after an immigration officer fired on Renee Good, also 37, killing her in her car in the same Midwestern city. Trump administration officials quickly claimed Pretti had intended to harm the federal agents &mdash; as they did after Good&#39;s death &mdash; pointing to a pistol they said was discovered on him. However, video shared widely on social media and verified by US media showed Pretti never drawing a weapon, with agents firing at him seconds after he was sprayed in the face with chemical irritant and thrown to the ground. Trump provocatively attributed the deaths to Minnesota&#39;s Democratic elected officials, including Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, writing on his Truth Social platform: &quot;Democrat run Sanctuary Cities and States are REFUSING to cooperate with ICE.&quot; &quot;Tragically, two American Citizens have lost their lives as a result of this Democrat ensued chaos,&quot; he added. After top officials described Pretti as an &quot;assassin&quot; who had assaulted the agents, Pretti&#39;s parents issued a statement Saturday condemning the administration&#39;s &quot;sickening lies&quot; about their son. With tensions high, protesters gathered Sunday in Minneapolis, denouncing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). One person held a cardboard sign that read: &quot;Be Pretti, be Good.&quot; The double tragedies have stirred outrage, including from two of Trump&#39;s Democratic presidential predecessors. Barack and Michelle Obama on Sunday said in a statement that Pretti&#39;s shooting should be a &quot;wake-up call&quot; that core US values &quot;are increasingly under assault.&quot; Hours later Bill Clinton delivered a fierce indictment of the current administration, saying peaceful protesters &quot;have been arrested, beaten, teargassed, and most searingly, in the cases of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, shot and killed.&quot; &quot;All of this is unacceptable,&quot; Clinton said in a statement as he urged Americans to &quot;stand up, speak out.&quot; &quot;If we give our freedoms away after 250 years, we might never get them back.&quot;

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Barack, Michelle say shooting should be a sign that core US values "are increasingly under assault”; Bill Clinton delivers fierce indictment of current administration, says peaceful protesters "have been arrested, beaten, teargassed, and most searingly, in the cases of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, shot and killed."

Obama, Clinton say killings by agents should be wake-up call for US

MINNEAPOLIS: Local officials in Minneapolis slammed federal agencies Friday for excluding them from the probe into an immigration officer&#39;s fatal shooting of a woman, as public outrage grew ahead of planned weekend protests. Officials in the midwestern state of Minnesota said their law enforcement agencies have been excluded from the investigation into the killing of motorist Renee Good, 37, by a federal immigration officer on Wednesday. A local prosecutor said Friday that federal investigators had taken Good&#39;s car and shell casings from the scene. The Trump administration has sought to paint the victim as a &quot;domestic terrorist,&quot; insisting that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who fatally shot her was acting in self-defense. Cell phone footage apparently taken by the officer who fired the fatal shots shows him interacting with Good as he approaches and circles her car, and her saying, &quot;I&#39;m not mad at you.&quot; After he passes in front of the car, another agent can be heard ordering Good to exit the vehicle before she tries to drive off and shots ring out. The White House insisted the video gave weight to the officer&#39;s claim of self-defense &mdash; even though the clip does not show the moment the car moved away, or him opening fire. &quot;This is not the time to bend the rules. This is a time to follow the law...the fact that Pam Bondi&#39;s Department of Justice and this presidential administration has already come to a conclusion about those facts is deeply concerning,&quot; Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, a Democrat, told a briefing on Friday. &quot;We know that they&#39;ve already determined much of the investigation,&quot; he said, adding that the state&#39;s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, within its department of public safety, has consistently run such investigations. &quot;Why not include them in the process?&quot; Frey said. On Thursday, US Vice President JD Vance said that the ICE officer, named in US media as Jonathan Ross, had &quot;absolute immunity&quot; &mdash; a claim disputed by local prosecutors. Court filings seen by AFP showed that in June 2025, Ross was dragged 100 yards (meters) along a road by a car driven by a man who was the subject of immigration enforcement activity. &quot;When the FBI, when the federal agencies, say they won&#39;t share evidence with the local authorities, the public can&#39;t trust that it&#39;s going to be a true, transparent investigation,&quot; said local Patrick O&#39;Shaughnessy, 43. &#39;Get out&#39; Minnesota officials have said that local investigators were initially invited by the FBI to participate in the inquiry into the shooting of Good, but were subsequently blocked from taking part. Good was one of four people who have been killed by ICE since Trump launched his immigration crackdown. Good&#39;s wife Becca Good told local media that they had gone to the scene of immigration enforcement activity to &quot;support our neighbors.&quot; &quot;We had whistles. They had guns,&quot; she said. Local prosecutor Mary Moriarty, the Hennepin County attorney, said &quot;our goal must be that a thorough investigation is completed at the local level.&quot; &quot;The FBI currently has, for example, Ms Good&#39;s car, the shell casings and witness interviews.&quot; Moriarty unveiled an online evidence portal, calling for submissions so that all available leads could be compiled. The divide between local and federal authorities widened Friday when US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins suspended the payment of $129.2 million in federal financial agriculture awards, according to a letter she posted to X. Federal authorities have openly clashed with Minnesota officials over allegations that Somali immigrants have committed large-scale fraud to extract public benefit funds, with Rollins accusing local officials of turning &quot;a blind eye&quot; to the problem. Protest action continued Friday with hundreds gathering at a federal facility that has become a focal point of anti-ICE demonstrations with at least one detention seen. Federal immigration officers armed with pepper ball guns and tear gas clashed with the noisy crowd. There were some 1,000 weekend protest gatherings planned across the United States, according to organizers.

Protest action continues with hundreds gathered at a federal facility that has become a focal point of anti-ICE demonstrations; Federal immigration officers armed with pepper ball guns and tear gas clash with the noisy crowd; some 1,000 weekend protest gatherings are planned across the United States.

Anger over Minneapolis shooting probe fuels protests

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ISLAMABAD: The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer who <a href="https://www.pakistantv.com/article/us-immigration-officer-fatally-shoots-woman-in-minneapolis" style="color:#0073e6;">shot</a> and killed a woman in Minneapolis this week has been identified as Jonathan Ross, a federal agent with a prior on-duty incident that had raised questions about his return to active service, according to multiple media reports. The shooting occurred close to the memorial for George Floyd, an unarmed Black man who died in Minneapolis in 2020 after a police officer knelt on his neck during an arrest, an incident that ignited the global Black Lives Matter movement and renewed scrutiny of police use of force. The New York Times (NYT), citing law enforcement officials, reported that Ross fired the fatal shot on Wednesday as officers approached a vehicle they said was blocking their way. The victim was later <a href="https://www.pakistantv.com/article/protesters-us-law-enforcement-clash-after-immigration-officer-kills-woman" style="color:#0073e6;">identified</a> as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, who was shot in the head as she attempted to drive away. US Vice President JD Vance publicly defended the officer&rsquo;s actions, describing the shooting as an act of &ldquo;self-defense.&rdquo; Without providing evidence, Vance also alleged that Good was part of what he called a &ldquo;broader left-wing network&rdquo; opposed to ICE. Ross&rsquo;s past record has since come under scrutiny. According to the NYT, he was involved in a separate incident in June last year in Minnesota, when he was dragged by a different driver for approximately 100 yards during an enforcement encounter. The report said it remains unclear when or under what conditions Ross returned to duty after that incident, which occurred in Bloomington, a suburb of Minneapolis. The Guardian, citing court records matching the earlier case, identified the officer as Jonathan David Ross and reported that he is a Minneapolis resident and a 10-year veteran of ICE&rsquo;s Enforcement and Removal Operations, including service on its special response team. The publication noted that the earlier incident involved an unarmed civilian, a detail that has renewed public debate following Wednesday&rsquo;s shooting. Separately, Reuters quoted the US vice president as confirming Ross had previously been injured after being dragged by a vehicle in June, an episode he said &ldquo;nearly had his life ended.&rdquo; Authorities have not announced whether Ross has been placed on administrative leave, and no independent findings on the shooting have yet been released.

Jonathan Ross faces scrutiny as authorities investigate the fatal Minneapolis shooting, while officials defend his actions and questions grow over ICE oversight, accountability, and use-of-force practices.

ICE officer with prior use-of-force incident identified in Minneapolis shooting

MINNEAPOLIS: The White House said Thursday that US law enforcement was under &quot;organized attack&quot; as protesters clashed with officers in Minneapolis following the fatal shooting of a woman by an immigration agent.&nbsp;The victim of Wednesday&#39;s shooting, identified as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, was shot in the head as she apparently tried to drive away from agents approaching her car, which they said was blocking their way.&nbsp;Vice President JD Vance said, without providing evidence, that she was part of a &quot;broader left-wing network&quot; opposed to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, and he insisted the officer acted in &quot;self-defense.&quot;&nbsp;The day after the shooting, officers armed with pepperball guns and tear gas jostled with a large crowd of protesters beside a government facility in Fort Snelling just outside Minneapolis.&nbsp;A noisy crowd chanted slogans attacking ICE as officers pushed against protesters, detaining several, including one who struck an agent with a cardboard sign.&nbsp;Footage of Wednesday&#39;s incident shows a masked agent attempting to open the victim&#39;s car door before another masked agent, standing near the vehicle&#39;s front bumper, fired three times into the Honda SUV.&nbsp;The vehicle then hurtled out of control and smashed into stationary vehicles, as horrified onlookers hurled abuse at the federal officers.&nbsp;Her bloodied body is then seen slumped in the crashed vehicle.&nbsp;Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said she leaves behind a wife and a six-year-old child, for whom a fundraiser has received more than $600,000.&nbsp;President Donald Trump and senior officials quickly claimed Good was trying to kill the agents, an assertion Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey dismissed.&nbsp;&quot;I want to see nobody get shot. I want to see nobody screaming and trying to run over policemen either,&quot; Trump said in an interview with The New York Times.&nbsp;Department of Homeland Security (DHS) chief Kristi Noem called the incident &quot;domestic terrorism,&quot; later saying she was not opposed to deploying more officers to Minneapolis.&nbsp;Witness Tyrice told US media he heard &quot;three gunshots and then I hear a car crash.&quot;&nbsp;&quot;I see this lady hugging the victim,&quot; he said.&nbsp;&quot;There&#39;s blood all in the snow in front of our house. And I could see a lady in the car...You could see the wounds and everything, like a whole bunch of blood.&quot;&nbsp;Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O&#39;Hara told CNN that Good was not the target of immigration enforcement action and that she was only suspected of blocking traffic.&nbsp;Vance told a briefing on Thursday that Good was &quot;part of a broader left-wing network to attack, to doxx, to assault, and to make it impossible for our ICE officers to do their job.&quot;&nbsp;White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday&#39;s incident was &quot;a result of a larger, sinister left-wing movement&quot; and &quot;law enforcement are under organized attack.&quot;&nbsp;Immigrant deportationsProtests grew after Minnesota&#39;s Democratic Governor Walz called it a &quot;patriotic duty&quot; to demonstrate for justice.&nbsp;On Thursday, he said Minnesota must be part of the probe into the shooting alongside federal investigators &mdash; as otherwise Noem &quot;is judge, jury and basically executioner.&quot;&nbsp;But Vance seemed to suggest the officer would be cleared by a federal probe that would exclude state-level officials.&nbsp;&quot;The idea that this was not justified is absurd,&quot; he said.&nbsp;Minneapolis schools were closed Thursday and Friday as a precaution against unrest.&nbsp;ICE officers have been at the forefront of the Trump administration&#39;s immigrant deportation drive, with raids carried out over the objections of some local officials.&nbsp;Wednesday&#39;s incident came during protests over immigration enforcement in the southern part of Minneapolis.&nbsp;They are part of widespread anger over the Trump administration&#39;s high-profile crackdown on undocumented immigrants, with the Republican vowing to arrest and deport &quot;millions.&rdquo;&nbsp;The victim&#39;s mother, Donna Ganger, told the Minnesota Star Tribune that her daughter &quot;was probably terrified&quot; and &quot;not part&quot; of anti-ICE activity.&nbsp;Good was a mother and poet who studied creative writing at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, US media reported.&nbsp;On Thursday, religious leaders addressed hundreds of people attending a vigil at the scene of the shooting, with a growing memorial of flowers and candles erected to commemorate Good&#39;s life.

Without providing evidence, VP Vance says Renee Good was part of a "broader left-wing network" opposed to the ICE, insists officer acted in "self-defense"; White House spokeswoman says incident "result of a larger, sinister left-wing movement," law enforcement are under “organized attack."

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