Shooting witness accounts added to legal cases challenging federal operation
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Details of Saturday’s fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by a federal agent in south Minneapolis — including two eyewitness accounts — are now part of the ongoing court cases seeking to curtail or end the surge of federal agents in Minnesota.
The two statements — which dispute the accounts of federal authorities — were filed in support of a lawsuit filed by six Minnesotans against the Department of Homeland Security after they were detained or arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minnesota for protesting or observing.
U.S. District Court Judge Katherine Menendez issued a temporary order limiting how federal agents can respond to protests in Minnesota, including barring agents from using nonlethal munitions — such as tear gas and pepper spray — on peaceful protesters and observers. That order was then suspended last week by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The eyewitness statements were added to the file late Saturday, seeking to have Menendez’s order reinstated. The names of the witnesses are redacted from the filings.
— MPR News staff
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