"On January 23rd, residents of Minneapolis who have been protesting the presence of ICE agents in their city declared a general strike. I had spent much of the previous week there, and the strike had been talked about as the culmination of the city's anger at the deployment of three thousand immigration agents into the region. That Friday, businesses suspended operations for the day, museums didn't open, and people stayed home from work. Thousands gathered for anti- ICE demonstrations in subzero temperatures in downtown Minneapolis."
"Around nine the next morning, federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a thirty-seven-year-old Minneapolis resident who worked as an I.C.U. nurse at a V.A. hospital. It was the third shooting of a Minneapolis civilian by federal agents this month, and the second fatality. "Not again," says a voice in the first video I saw of the event, recorded from across the street."
On January 23, Minneapolis residents declared a general strike in response to the deployment of three thousand immigration agents. Businesses and cultural institutions closed while thousands gathered for anti-ICE demonstrations in subzero temperatures and about a hundred clergy staged a sit-in at the Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport and were arrested. The following morning federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, marking the third federal shooting of a Minneapolis civilian that month and the second fatality. The Department of Homeland Security asserted that Pretti approached officers with a 9 mm handgun and said it will lead the investigation. Previous incidents included the killing of Renee Nicole Good and an injury to Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis.
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