A gun, which he was legally carrying, was removed during a struggle with several Ice agents seconds before he was shot, while prone, several times. Mr Pretti had come to assist another protester, who had been pushed to the ground by an agent, seconds before the fatal incident. FBI director Kash Patel on Sunday insisted that Mr Pretti had been the aggressor. Connecticut senator Chris Murphy warned on Sunday that the flooding of Minneapolis with some 3,000 Ice agents had little to with undocumented immigrants. He urged the administration to work with city and state officials “to avert more chaos and achieve legitimate law enforcement goals ...

Source: The Irish Times January 26, 2026 08:27 UTC