Police chief defies ICE as agents try to block local cops from latest Minneapolis shooting

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The police refused to be blocked by ICE from investigating this murder

ICE attempted to block local police officers from the scene of another Minneapolis shooting Saturday — but the city's police chief defied their orders.

— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-01-24T17:50:22Z

https://www.rawstory.com/ice-shooting-minneapolis

ICE attempted to block local police officers from the scene of another Minneapolis shooting Saturday — but the city's police chief defied their orders.

The federal agents attempted to demand the city's police officers stay away after gunshots rang out Saturday morning, but Chief Brian O'Hara refused, the Minnesota Star Tribune reported.

A video, apparently shot by a witness, shows Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents wrestling a man to the ground. One officer appears to strike the person with what looks like a firearm before several shots are heard.

O'Hara confirmed a man had died, as crowds of furious onlookers gathered.

Sources told the Tribune O'Hara refused ICE's demands and instructed his officers to preserve the scene. All available local police officers have been called into work.

Minnesota officials have complained that they were frozen out of the investigation of the deadly shooting of Renee Good by ICE earlier this month.

[malaise]

1. Good

States’ rights my black ass

[Jim__]

2. The police need to defy "orders" from ICE.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. I'm glad

It's a murder by a Paramilitary that serves at the pleasure of President Miller.

They aren't law enforcement and should not be treated as such.

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4. Tim Walz unleashes after deadly shooting: 'We're creating a log for future prosecutions'

There will be prosecutions

Tim Walz unleashes after deadly shooting: ‘We’re creating a log for future prosecutions’

— #TuckFrump (@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social) 2026-01-24T20:01:15.000Z

https://www.rawstory.com/tim-walz-2675022150/

Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced Saturday that plans were already underway to hold ICE and immigration agents criminally “responsible” for their actions following the deadly shooting earlier that morning.

In Minneapolis, 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti was shot and killed by federal immigration officers after being wrestled to the ground and beaten. Video of the shooting spread wildly on social media and has sparked outrage across the nation.

In a press conference after the incident, Walz revealed that a “log of evidence” was being created for the explicit purpose of criminally prosecuting federal immigration officers involved with the shooting.

“Despite the horrific act by this federal government, Minnesotans are standing up for the rule of law; they're protesting loudly and urgently, but peacefully. It must stay that way, Minnesota,” Walz said.

“We're creating a log of evidence for the future prosecution of ICE agents and officials responsible for this. I call on all Americans to see the decency that this state is exhibiting, and the horrific cruelty, unprofessional, absolute abomination that is passing for what these ICE agents are doing on our streets. They think they can provoke us into abandoning our values. Well, they're dead wrong. We'll keep the peace, we'll secure justice with our neighbors, and we'll see this occupation end.”