Some elected officials condemn Trump’s federal surge in Minnesota and say DHS agents should leave state

• Alex Pretti did not brandish gun, witnesses say in sworn testimony

• Calls mount on Trump administration to fully investigate killing

• Minnesota workers pressure employers to take action against ICE operations

Alex Pretti, a Veterans Affairs Hospital ICU nurse, was said to be deeply upset about the Trump administration’s sometimes brutal immigration crackdown. The 37-year-old has been described as kindhearted by his friends and family (see opening post to read what his parents said about him in a statement issued after he was killed).

Dimitri Drekonja, chief of the Infectious Diseases Section at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs hospital and a colleague of Pretti, called him “a good kind person who lived to help.” Pretti was a nurse working “to support critically ill veterans,” he added.