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Amanpour

Former Minneapolis Chief of Police Medaria Arradondo

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In Minneapolis, outrage is deepening and protests have intensified after the deadly shooting of 37-year-old registered nurse Alex Pretti. As tensions rise, local police fear the city may be heading down the same spiral that began in 2020, after the murder of George Floyd. The city's former chief of police, Medaria Arradondo, joins the show.  Also on today's show: David Bier, Director of Immigration Studies, Cato Institute; CNN Jerusalem Correspondent Jeremy Diamond; former Columbia University President Lee Bollinger    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.

0:07.0

That agent had a split seconds to make a decision.

0:14.0

A nation left reeling after a second deadly shooting by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis.

0:20.0

I asked the city's former

0:22.0

police chief, Madeira Eridondo, what it means for policing and public trust. And I speak

0:28.5

to David Beer from the Cato Institute about the expansion of federal power and the civil liberties

0:34.2

caught in the crossfire. Then Israel retrieves the remains of its last hostage held in Gaza.

0:41.3

We'll have the details from Jerusalem.

0:43.3

Also ahead.

0:44.3

It's only when civil society broadly sort of acts and rises up and said this cannot stand,

0:52.3

that you really have effective resistance.

0:56.0

How to fight against the attack on academic freedom and why America's future depends on it.

1:02.0

Former Columbia President Lee Bollinger tells Michelle Martin about his new book, University, A Reckoning.

1:29.2

Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Bionagal-LDriga in New York, sitting in for Christian Almanpur.

1:36.1

We begin in Minneapolis, where outrage is deepening and protests have intensified after another deadly shooting.

1:41.8

37-year-old registered nurse Alex Prettie was killed by Border Patrol agents on Saturday,

1:45.2

just weeks after Renee Good was shot and killed there by an immigration officer. Already a battle over the details of what unfolded is dividing the country.

1:51.2

Administration officials were quick to claim Prede presented a threat to the officers who

1:55.9

restrained and then killed him. But multiple bystander videos contradict that claim. Here's one of them,

2:02.7

and a warning. This video is disturbing.

2:22.7

That is police brutality. They are hitting that observer. They are kicking them in the face.

2:26.2

Taylor.

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