"The US deputy attorney general announced on Friday that the justice department has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti last Saturday by immigration officers, as fierce protests continued on the streets there. We're looking at everything that would shed light on that day, Todd Blanche, deputy to attorney general Pam Bondi, said at a press conference on Friday morning in Washington DC."
"The DoJ's announcement on Friday was a significant development after the Trump administration had earlier indicated a much narrower examination by DHS. Blanche said the new plan was like any investigation that the Department of Justice and the FBI does every day. It means we're looking at video, talking to witnesses, trying to understand what happened. The DoJ has not opened such an investigation into Good's death."
The Department of Justice opened a federal civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti, with the FBI to lead the probe. Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse at the military veterans hospital in Minneapolis and an activist, died while protesting aggressive immigration raids and protester-control tactics by ICE, border patrol and other federal agencies. The shooting was the third during a surge of immigration enforcement personnel sent to the Twin Cities and the second fatality after Renee Good was shot on 7 January. Investigators will review video and interview witnesses. Daily protests continue across the Twin Cities, drawing supporters from surrounding states.
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