Trump officials quickly painted the two recently shot dead - Renee Good and Alex Pretti - as aggressors, saying the shootings were justified. The Reuters review included these two incidents and four others in recent months that, collectively, show a pattern in which officials rushed to defend immigration officers without waiting for key facts to emerge - in what former immigration officials called a clear break with past practice for federal agencies in such situations. Here is a look at six incidents in Minneapolis, Chicago and Texas:Federal officers and ICE agents surround Alex Pretti on January 24. Videos of the shooting taken from several vantage points – including cell phone video recorded by the officer who shot Good – conflicted with those claims. Wolpert said the affidavit established that the ICE officer shot Sosa-Celis from 3 metres away as he was fleeing, which showed the officer "was not in immediate danger."

Source: Otago Daily Times January 28, 2026 02:03 UTC