Welcome to the beat, everyone. I'm Ari Melbert. We're reporting amid the fallout of another killing of an American by federal agents, working under the Trump administrations, obviously unusual. Many say unprecedented in the modern era and, to be clear, possibly unlawful deployment of these different types of DHS and ICE agents in Minnesota. The new shooting of this nurse, Alex Preddy,

which involves several shots to the back while he was already restrained,

according to the video showing it in real time and later reported analysis,

that shooting is stoking grave legal questions and pushback from Congress.

And I'll show you that tonight.

We begin with the very latest, though, a personnel change by the Trump administration in Minnesota.

The top controversial chief involved in much of this, a customs and border patrol official named Greg Bovino,

is, according to the Wall Street Journal's

new reporting crossing late today, leaving Minnesota immediately. The journal reporting, he'd

emerged as the public face of Trump's immigration enforcement activity in the state. He'd accompanied

agents on operations, and this is widely interpreted as a vote of no confidence in what he's done recently, if not overall.

Vino was an official who had claimed prior to any fact-finding that he thought Preddy wanted maximum damage and to massacre law enforcement.

To be clear, these are the kind of statements that if a random person made them about another person in America, you could easily end up in a defamation case. This, of course, is coming with the authority of the federal

government. And the videos flatly contradicted that. So unless we got more fact-finding or new

reporting, it would already seem to be a false statement, whether it was made recklessly or knowingly

would be the legal standard. The shooting, though, continues to spark protests around the whole area.

This is despite freezing temperatures, we're seeing this show of force and, as has been demonstrated

now with two different people who were basically protesting or peacefully observing officers

now being killed, it is understandable that some people would

view even going outside to use their First Amendment rights against the Trump administration right now

as itself potentially dangerous. And yet there they are, being seen and heard around the country.

Now, I will mention in terms of following each development that the president posted online today

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