{"id":3903,"date":"2026-01-26T02:50:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T02:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/?p=3903"},"modified":"2026-01-26T02:50:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T02:50:01","slug":"political-leaders-react-after-icu-nurse-alex-pretti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/?p=3903","title":{"rendered":"Political Leaders React After ICU Nurse Alex Pretti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"160\" data-end=\"505\"><strong data-start=\"160\" data-end=\"172\">Incident<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"160\" data-end=\"505\">Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, was fatally shot<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"160\" data-end=\"505\">by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis on Jan.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"160\" data-end=\"505\">24 during a large enforcement operation.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"160\" data-end=\"505\">Federal authorities say he \u201capproached \u2026 with a handgun,\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"160\" data-end=\"505\">but bystander video shows him holding a phone and trying to help others at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"507\" data-end=\"735\"><strong data-start=\"507\" data-end=\"528\">Official Reaction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"507\" data-end=\"735\">Minnesota leaders blasted the operation, with Gov.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"507\" data-end=\"735\">Tim Walz calling it a \u201ccampaign of organized brutality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"507\" data-end=\"735\">President Trump defended the agents and denied wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"737\" data-end=\"908\"><strong data-start=\"737\" data-end=\"756\">Public Response<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"737\" data-end=\"908\">Protests and vigils spread through the city, and<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"737\" data-end=\"908\">a fundraiser for Pretti\u2019s family raised hundreds of thousands.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"910\" data-end=\"1114\"><strong data-start=\"910\" data-end=\"932\">Family Perspective<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"910\" data-end=\"1114\">His parents said Pretti was unarmed and<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"910\" data-end=\"1114\">described him as compassionate.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"910\" data-end=\"1114\">They criticized federal claims and demanded truth and accountability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incident Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, was fatally shot by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 during a large enforcement operation. Federal authorities say he \u201capproached \u2026 with a handgun,\u201d but bystander video shows him holding a phone and trying to help others at the scene. Official Reaction Minnesota leaders blasted the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3907,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903\/revisions\/3907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}