'If You Can Keep It': ICE’s Latest Minnesota Killing
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🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Pretti was a Minneapolis resident and an ICU nurse at a local VA hospital. It’s the second killing by federal agents in the state this month, and the third shooting.
The message from elected officials in Minneapolis and in Minnesota was simple: enough.
We look at how this operation, one the Trump administration says is about immigration enforcement, transformed into something else. Then, we turn to Congress and its lack of oversight of the Trump’s agenda. And we hear from a Democratic member of Congress about what she wants her colleagues to do in this moment.
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| 0:12.3 | Subaru, more than a car company. |
| 0:14.6 | Learn more at Subaru.com slash help. It's been less than three weeks since a federal ice agent shot and killed 37-year-old poet Renee Maclin Good in Minneapolis. |
| 0:33.8 | The story from the Trump administration came swiftly. |
| 0:36.7 | Maclin Good was dangerous and the shooting was justified. But videos refute that story and protests erupted nationwide in reaction. Local officials called for calm and for ICE to leave their state. Now a new killing by immigration agents on the streets of Minneapolis, and the same pattern of false narrative from |
| 0:55.8 | the Trump administration. Federal agents shot 37-year-old Alex Prettty to death on Saturday, |
| 1:02.3 | and once again, the administration immediately jumped in, painting Prettie as a violent criminal. |
| 1:08.8 | The president's top advisor on immigration, Stephen Miller, |
| 1:11.7 | called Prattie an assassin. The vice president reposted that lie. Other officials said |
| 1:17.3 | Prattie, who was an ICU nurse at a VA hospital, was on the streets to harm immigration |
| 1:22.0 | agents. And once again, the video evidence undermines those claims. This time, even more clearly than before. |
| 1:28.6 | And again, lawmakers are calling for ICE to get out. We need ICE out of Minnesota. They are not |
| 1:38.5 | making us more safe as the tragic, tragic killing this morning, as people saw it, viscerally on that video shows |
| 1:47.8 | us they are making us less safe. That was Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota on Saturday. |
| 1:55.5 | On Monday, President Trump said that Borders-R Tom Homan will head to Minneapolis. For this installment of our weekly |
| 2:01.7 | series, if you can keep it, about the health of our democracy, we start with the latest in |
| 2:06.1 | Minneapolis. How is the operation the administration says is about immigration enforcement |
| 2:10.8 | transformed into something else entirely? Later, we turn to Congress and how it's responding to this |
| 2:16.7 | moment in Minnesota, |
| 2:17.7 | and also how the legislative branch has lost, or in many cases, willingly given up power to this and previous presidents. |
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