It's Monday, January 26, 2006. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news

and events from a Christian worldview. So much of the nation's attention continues to be directed

to the state of Minnesota to the two cities known as the Twin Cities there, Minneapolis and St. Paul,

and that's because of a longstanding and now deadly standoff between local protesters,

including a good number of leftist activists, and on the other side, federal agents, law enforcement officers,

especially those with immigration and customs enforcement.

And we are looking at the fact that this standoff, as I say, has turned deadly.

A matter of a couple weeks ago, the shooting of Renee Good.

And then just over the weekend, the shooting of Alex Pretti.

Both of these events have become highly controversial.

Both involve the shootings of these two people, Both of them involved in some form of protest or obstruction in terms of the action of the federal agents. Both of them in the context of what can only be described as a very confusing situation on the ground there. And more about that in just a moment. In both cases,

you have federal agents, federal law enforcement officers saying that they acted only in response

to a clear and present danger to themselves, not just impeding their work, but representing a threat

and in both cases a deadly threat, one with a car and another with what was identified

as a gun.

Now, as I said, both of these are controversial.

The basic facts are very much in dispute.

And it is interesting that you have officials in the Trump administration who have come out

and said, this is what happened.

These are the facts on the ground.

They're backing up the officers and the agents in terms of the use of deadly force. On the other hand, you have activists and others there

in the Twin Cities who are saying the facts are simply not as the federal law enforcement

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