Soldiers with the Minnesota National Guard have been deployed to secure the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building and the site of today’s shooting by agents with Border Patrol and Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, under orders from Governor Tim Walz.

Speaking to reporters earlier at the FEMA’s Headquarters, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem blatantly lies about today’s shooting by agents with Border Patrol and Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, stating:

“An individual approached U.S. Border Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun. The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently. Fearing for his life and for the lives of his fellow officers around him, an agent fired defensive shots. Medics were on the scene immediately and attempted to deliver medical aid to the subject, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. The suspect also had two magazines with ammunition in them that held dozens of rounds. He also had no ID. This looks like a situation where an individual arrived at the scene to inflict maximum damage on individuals and to kill law enforcement.“

All footage from the incident shows the victim, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, with his phone in his hand the entire time, never once is he seen with the handgun - he was legally carrying - in his hand. The only person seen with Pretti’s gun is an agent who removed it from his waistband before the first shots were fired. Everything suggests he was unarmed when shot by agents with Border Patrol and Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Secretary Kristi Noem now claims that the victim killed in today’s shooting in Minneapolis was attacking the agents, while falsely stating that he was “brandishing” the gun towards agents, a gun he was legally carrying under the Second Amendment.

Secretary Kristi Noem suggests that Alex Jeffrey Pretti, the victim of today’s shooting by agents with Border Patrol and Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, was a domestic terrorist and committed an act of domestic terrorism because he was carrying a firearm during a demonstration against the government, actions that are supported under both the First and Second Amendment.

Convoy of military vehicles with the Minnesota National Guard seen arriving earlier outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis.

Following today’s shooting in Minneapolis, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announces that Senate Democrats will block the upcoming appropriations bill if it includes funding for the Department of Homeland Security, almost insuring another government shutdown at the end of January.

Zach Duckworth, Republican member of the Minnesota State Senate, calls for a “tactical pause” following today’s shooting in Minneapolis by agents with Border Patrol and Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Minnesota National Guard seen near the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis.

Newly published footage of today’s shooting of 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti by agents with Border Patrol and Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Members of the Minnesota National Guard and Minneapolis Police Department have secured routes of access and the site of today’s shooting involving agents with Border Patrol and Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Alex Jeffrey Pretti, the 37-year-old male shot and killed in today’s shooting by agents with Border Patrol and Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, seen honoring a deceased veteran while working as an ICU Nurse with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

According to the latest data published by the Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRANA), as of Saturday January 24, the total number of confirmed deaths from the recent crackdown on anti-regime protests in Iran has reached 5,459, while the number of deaths currently under investigation stands at 17,031.

400 hours… Iran has now been under a total nationwide internet blackout for over 400 hours, with almost all calls, texts, and other methods of outside communication having been entirely blocked by authorities since early January.