Former US President Barack Obama qualified on Sunday January 25 the death of Alex Pretti, an American nurse killed by federal agents the day before in Minneapolisof “heartbreaking tragedy”.
The Democrat called for a “startle” facing the “attacks” perpetrated against the basic values of the United States. “It is up to every citizen to stand up against injustice, protect our fundamental freedoms, and hold our government accountable”writes barack Obama in a press release.
“For weeks now, people across the country have been rightly outraged by the spectacle of masked ICE recruits and other federal agents acting with impunity and engaging in tactics that appear designed to intimidate, harass, provoke, and endanger residents of a major American city.”writes the former president again.
Mr. Obama further criticizes Donald Trump and his management, “eager to make the situation worse” instead “to try to impose some semblance of discipline and accountability on the agents they deployed”.
Trump administration blames Alex Pretti
The government of Donald Trump, for its part, defended the actions of federal agents who killed the 37-year-old American nurse, two weeks later the death of Renee Good in the same city and under similar conditions.
As it did after the death of renee Good, the Trump administration instantly placed the blame on Alex Pretti. “We cannot attack the police in this country without suffering the consequences”FBI Director Kash Patel said on Fox News. And Homeland Security Secre
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Despite the nurse’s death, senior border police official Gregory Bovino maintained on CNN on Sunday that “the victims are the agents”. The official also praised “fantastic training” and the “great job” agents who “prevented possible shootings against the police”.
Donald Trump accused local Democratic elected officials of being at the origin of the tensions. “The mayor and governor are pushing for insurrection with their pompous, hazardous, and arrogant rhetoric”he accused on his platform, Truth Social, calling for immigration police to be let “do yoru job”.
