Special Edition: Breaking Down The Latest Minneapolis Shooting And Answering Your Legal Questions About ICE

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🗓️ 25 January 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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A 37-year-old U.S. citizen, Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis on Saturday. Federal officials say the shooting was self-defense, claiming Pretti approached agents with a gun. But multiple videos and eyewitness accounts do not back up the Trump administration claims, showing that Pretti was instead holding his phone and suggesting his weapon was actually removed by agents before they shot and killed him. This is the second fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen by federal agents in Minneapolis in less than a month. The latest incident has sparked mass protests, lawsuits, and political backlash.Mosheh was joined by Elie Honig, former state and federal prosecutor and CNN senior legal analyst, for an Instagram Live on Sunday to break down the latest and answer your legal questions. We are making the conversation available as a podcast as well. We discuss: The legal standard federal agents must meet before using deadly force and how video evidence is evaluated How DOJ typically investigates federal shootings and how the Trump Administration is changing precedent Whether legally carrying a firearm changes the use-of-force analysis Citizens’ rights to film federal agents, protest, and observe enforcement actions Qualified immunity and whether federal agents have broader protections than local police State-level investigations of federal agents and what legal options remain for families if DOJ declines to act Broader questions about accountability and systemic use of force in federal immigration operations Mosheh Oinounou (⁠@mosheh⁠) is an Emmy and Murrow award-winning journalist. He has 20 years of experience at networks including Fox News, Bloomberg Television and CBS News, where he was the executive producer of the CBS Evening News and launched the network's 24 hour news channel. He founded the @mosheh Instagram news account in 2020 and the Mo News podcast and newsletter in 2022.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the Mo News podcast. It's Moschewan here with a special edition for all of you in the aftermath of the shooting in Minnesota over the weekend. A 37-year-old U.S. citizen Alex Peretti and ICU nurse shot and killed by federal immigration agents after an altercation outside an immigration rate that was happening in
0:21.5	Minneapolis on Saturday morning. It's led to a whole back and forth that we're going to get
0:25.9	into in this edition. It's the second fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen by federal agents in
0:32.0	Minneapolis in just the past couple of weeks. Local officials say they are being blocked
0:36.6	from investigating. Federal
0:37.8	officials have come out and made a number of allegations about Peretti that are not backed up by
0:42.2	the video evidence. We will discuss all of it today's podcast. Ellie Honig is my guest. He is a
0:47.2	former state and federal prosecutor, former assistant to U.S. attorney, as well as the CNN senior
0:52.0	legal analyst. You might recognize them from there.
0:55.3	We did an Instagram live on Sunday afternoon where we took a number of your questions about
0:59.4	the law, about ICE, about what is unfolding here, about what could happen next, and what are
1:04.3	the limits to the law, especially as so many of you are asking what to make of some of the
1:09.3	statements by the Trump administration officials
1:11.5	over the weekend, especially as it appears there will not be an independent and fair investigation
1:15.9	by one central body about what took place. So we talked about what matters here legally. What is
1:22.1	the standard federal agents must meet before using deadly force? How these cases are normally
1:26.5	investigated, the fact that
1:28.0	Peretti was carrying a firearm and what that means. And what is going on these days at the Justice
1:32.3	Department, something that Honig is very familiar with. So a lot of questions here. Take a listen.
1:38.7	The audio quality will be slightly different since we did this on Instagram Live. But I've gotten
1:42.9	incredible feedback from the people
1:44.6	who watch this live. So it's definitely worth your time. Hey, how are you? I'm doing okay. How are you?
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