The Lie the Government Told Us about Minneapolis
Velshi
MS NOW, Ali Velshi
4.7 • 793 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We're following new developments out of Minneapolis where the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, |
| 0:10.1 | the state police are now investigating the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Preti by federal agents yesterday. |
| 0:16.4 | To be clear, the BCA are state officials. |
| 0:20.1 | They are currently at the scene. Our cameras are there. |
| 0:22.7 | They're taking photos and they're collecting evidence that is independent of that evidence that is |
| 0:27.0 | being carried out, being collected by federal authorities. The DHS has said no one else gets to |
| 0:32.4 | investigate this. The state is saying they want to investigate this, and this all comes after a Minnesota judge |
| 0:38.5 | late last night issued a temporary restraining order blocking federal agents from destroying |
| 0:44.3 | or altering evidence that is related to the shooting after the Department of Homeland Security |
| 0:49.3 | allegedly removed evidence from the scene and took it into exclusive federal custody. Federal authorities |
| 0:55.8 | also attempted to block the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension from accessing the crime |
| 1:01.1 | scene itself. So the county attorney, what you would know of as a DA, the county attorney |
| 1:05.8 | Mary Moriarty of Hennepin County, Minnesota is the one who filed that lawsuit yesterday. |
| 1:10.8 | Here's what she told my colleague David David Noriega, a little while ago. |
| 1:16.9 | So it's really important for us to collect as much as we can and see if we have enough to make a decision. |
| 1:23.3 | And that decision will be, do we charge or not? |
| 1:25.9 | You are not discarding the possibility of charges in these cases. |
| 1:31.7 | No. |
| 1:33.1 | There were a lot of legal developments yesterday. |
| 1:34.9 | So this is a separate matter now. |
| 1:36.2 | In a new affidavit of sworn testimony, a doctor who was at the scene asked the agents |
| 1:41.6 | to be allowed to administer care to Preti after the shooting. |
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