Minnesota governor slams 'horrific' new killing by ICE agents

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said Saturday that federal agents deployed in Minneapolis as part of a sweeping immigration crackdown had carried out "another horrific shooting," less than three weeks after the fatal shooting of Renee Good.

An  video was circulating of a man who was shot during a street disturbance, with several gunshots heard and at least one person in the vicinity wearing a vest marked "POLICE."

The man was later identified by his parents as 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti, who worked an intensive care unit nurse.

The city government said it was "aware of reports of another shooting involving federal law enforcement in the area of 26th Street W and Nicollet Ave" and seeking more details.

"I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening," Walz said on X.

"The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now."

He added that federal authorities "cannot be trusted" to investigate the shooting

"The federal government cannot be trusted to lead this investigation. The state will handle it period," said Walz, accusing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of "sowing chaos and violence" in Minnesota.

Thousands of ICE agents have been deployed to the Democratic-led city, as President Donald Trump presses his campaign to deport undocumented immigrants across the country.

Trump later accused Walz and Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey of "inciting insurrection" over their response to the killing.

"The Mayor and the Governor are inciting Insurrection, with their pompous, dangerous, and arrogant rhetoric," he wrote on social media, ratcheting up his stand-off with the two officials.

Trump has previously threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, which would allow him to send troops into Minnesota for law enforcement purposes.

Minneapolis has been rocked by increasingly tense protests since federal agents shot and killed Good, a US citizen, on January 7.

An autopsy concluded that the killing was a homicide, a classification that does not automatically mean a crime was committed.

The officer who fired the shots that killed Good, Jonathan Ross, has neither been suspended nor charged.

The detention of a five-year-old boy this week, as agents sought to arrest his father, rekindled public outrage.