In Minnesota, the Hennepin County medical examiner has ruled the death of 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti a homicide, due to multiple gunshot wounds. The finding came as ProPublica named the two federal agents who killed Pretti in a hail of 10 bullets on January 24: Jesus “Jesse” Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez, both of South Texas. Later in the broadcast, we’ll speak with the investigative reporter at ProPublica, J. David McSwane, who broke the story.
On Monday, The New York Times reported more than 1,500 active-duty troops who’d been on standby to deploy to Minnesota were quietly taken off heightened alert over the weekend. Trump had threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act as a response to protests in the Twin Cities region.
Meanwhile, The Minneapolis Star Tribune is reporting another eight federal prosecutors have left or announced their intentions to leave the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office, bringing the total number who’ve left their posts this year to 14 — an unprecedented number.
On Monday, the Department of Homeland Security said federal officers deployed to Minnesota will start wearing body cameras. In response, Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar wrote, “Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.”











