Resistance is fatal: another killing in Minneapolis
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🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
For the second time this month, federal agents in Minneapolis killed a citizen under disputed circumstances. We take a wider look at the immigration-enforcement effort and what, if anything, might limit it. OpenAI remains a generative-AI darling but it is burning through eye-watering amounts of money; 2026 may be its make-or-break year. And the effort to save Britain’s red squirrels.
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| 0:00.0 | The Economist |
| 0:02.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:13.0 | And I'm Rosie Bloor. |
| 0:15.0 | And I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:17.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:25.1 | ChatGPT is the most powerful chatbot out there. That's made its owner OpenAI remarkably powerful. |
| 0:32.3 | But taking the lead has meant churning through a lot of money. This year could be make or break. |
| 0:39.9 | And pity the poor red squirrel in most of Britain. |
| 0:44.1 | They've been roundly out-competed |
| 0:45.8 | or given a nasty virus by their larger American grey cousins. |
| 0:50.3 | We look at a new conservation effort |
| 0:52.1 | to bring their numbers back up. |
| 1:05.0 | Music We look at a new conservation effort to bring their numbers back up. First up, though... On Saturday morning in Minneapolis, federal agents shot Alex Prettie, an intensive care nurse, 10 times. |
| 1:16.6 | Multiple videos from the scene raced across the street. What the fuck did you just do? What the fuck did you just do? |
| 1:28.3 | Multiple videos from the scene raced across the internet. |
| 1:32.3 | Greg Bovino, a border patrol commander, who's become the face of the federal immigration enforcement effort, |
| 1:47.0 | delivered a statement about the killing. |
| 1:49.0 | During this operation, an individual approached U.S. Border Patrol agents with a 9mm, semi-automatic handgun. |
| 1:59.0 | The agents attempted to disarm the individual, |
| 2:02.6 | but he violently resisted. |
| 2:05.6 | Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, |
| 2:10.6 | a board of Mitchell agent fired. |
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