One Border Patrol agent and one Customs and Border Protection officer were placed on leave for their involvement in the lethal shooting of anti-ICE activist Alex Pretti, according to ABC News.

Also on Wednesday, Pretti’s family retained attorneys who had helped prosecute an officer in the death of George Floyd.

‘It’s just amateurish. It’s terrible; it’s making the president look bad on policy.’

The developments come after President Donald Trump and local Democratic leaders worked together to ease the tension from the incident Saturday.

A Department of Homeland Security notification to Congress obtained by ABC News indicated that both of the officers discharged their firearms during the incident.

Sources said that putting the two on leave was “standard protocol” for an officer-involved shooting.

Steve Schleicher is representing Michael and Susan Pretti, the activist’s parents, pro bono according to a statement from the family. Schleicher is a partner at the Minneapolis-based firm Maslon and worked as special prosecutor under Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison in the trial against Derek Chauvin.

Micayla Pretti, the activist’s younger sister, hired her own attorney, Anthony Cotton of Kuchler & Cotton in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Democrats pounced on the death of the 37-year-old ICU nurse by resuming and amplifying their calls for the Trump administration to end all ICE operations and disband the agency. Others have called for Department of Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem to resign from the office.

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“What she’s done in Minnesota should be disqualifying. She should be out of a job,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said. “It’s just amateurish. It’s terrible; it’s making the president look bad on policy.”

On Tuesday, it was revealed that Pretti had gotten into a separate confrontation with federal agents about a week before his death. He had been tackled in that interaction and reportedly broke a rib when one agent leaned his knee on him. Pretti was released in that incident.

“That day, he thought he was going to die,” said a source who had spoken to Pretti.

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The Ben of the famous Ben & Jerry’s ice cream company is calling for resistance against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and warned that the agency will kill anyone who doesn’t submit.

Ben Cohen cited two lethal shooting incidents involving federal immigration agents in a video message he posted to the X platform on Wednesday.

‘Submit or be murdered, video them and be murdered, protest and be murdered.’

Cohen said he was going to announce a special ice cream to memorialize the life of Renee Good but that the killing of Alex Pretti made him change his mind.

“We all live in Minneapolis now, because Minneapolis is only the beginning of what they have in mind. They’re coming for anyone, anywhere, who doesn’t submit,” Cohen said in the video.

“A brazen, arrogant, masked, militarized force loyal only to Trump and immune from prosecution. Submit or be murdered, video them and be murdered, protest and be murdered, or at least be placed on a list of domestic terrorists and investigated.”

“This is not freedom. … This is not America. This is sheer cruelty. This is the beginning of the end of the land of the free unless we make it the home of the brave,” he continued.

He went on to call for ICE to be defunded and disbanded, and closed by quoting the Bible and also Christian Marxist Cornel West.

Ben & Jerry’s has been vocal about supporting liberal causes for many years and used their ice cream platform for advocacy.

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In 2024, the company called for Americans to recognize that the “US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it” for the Fourth of July.

In 2021, the company said it would refuse to sell its ice cream in the “Occupied Palestinian Territory.”

In September, co-founder Jerry Greenfield stepped down from Ben & Jerry’s after accusing its parent company of stifling his left-wing speech.

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The left has declared war on ICE, and the citizens of Minnesota appear to be taking this call to arms very seriously.

“This is a weird thing that’s been happening … all across Minnesota where anybody who’s driving an SUV or staying in an Extended Suites America or Spring Hill Suites is just suspected of being an ICE member,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere explains.

“Like, if you have short hair and you’re white, you’re definitely an ICE to these people. And so, they’re going to come out and harass you. And I keep thinking there’s these families that are coming across the country like ‘Where can we stop? Well, stop at the Spring Hill Suites. It’s an hour ahead. We’ll get a good start on the drive tomorrow,’” he continues.

“They’re trying to get some sleep, and there’s idiots outside with their stupid whistles yelling at ICE members that probably left the state 48 hours before, but that’s just where we are at this point,” he adds.

There are even apps some Minnesotans are using in order to track who they believe might be ICE agents — which they are often wrong about.

“Not that it would be OK if they got the person right, but it just also shows, not only are they evil and just being a-holes about this, but they’re also wrong constantly. So, that’s just one of those things that goes along with it,” Stu says.

One woman recorded herself strategizing how to incapacitate ICE officers so they aren’t able to deport any illegal immigrants.

“Here is one crazy lady … just openly strategizing on social media about how to commit massive crimes,” Stu comments, before playing a clip of the woman.

“The single ladies where these ICE guys are going have a chance to do something, you know, not without risk, but could help the cause, for sure. Get on Tinder, get on Hinge, find these guys. They’re around. They’re an ICE agent? Bring some Ex-Lax and put it in their drinks. Get them sick. You know, nobody’s going to die. Just enough to incapacitate them, get them off the street for the next day,” she said in a video posted to TikTok.

In another video, the same woman called for medical providers to grab syringes to inject the ICE agents with.

“There you go. What could possibly go wrong with scenarios like that?” Stu asks. “Just bring some needles, inject them with stuff.”

“These are psychotic people. My favorite part of that clip is how incredibly proud she is of thinking of these ideas,” he adds.

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Rap sensation Nicki Minaj appeared alongside President Donald Trump in the nation’s capital to praise the administration, while delivering scathing remarks about California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Minaj attended the Trump Account Summit in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, personally pledging hundreds of thousands of dollars to child savings accounts spearheaded by the administration. These new accounts are a feature of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, where the government and private donors fund investment accounts for every child born between 2025 and 2028.

‘Newscum only wants to be seen. He doesn’t want to do anything credible.’

In addition to her monetary contribution, Minaj praised Trump while ripping into Newsom.

“I am probably the president’s number-one fan,” Minaj said. “And that’s not going to change. And the hate or what people have to say — it does not affect me at all. It actually motivates me to support him more, and it’s going to motivate all of us to support him more. We’re not going to let them get away with bullying him.”

“He has a lot of force behind him, and God is protecting him.”

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Minaj contrasted Trump with Newsom, most notably praising the president’s authenticity, which she says is unique for world leaders.

“This is a different human being,” Minaj said. “This is a different president. This is a different kind of leader. This is a businessman and an authentic human being. So when he says that he wants to contribute something long-term, way after he’s in office, that’s what he means.”

“He doesn’t want to make a change,” Minaj said of Newsom. “Absolutely not. Newscum only wants to be seen. He does not want to do anything credible with his time or life.”

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Minaj went on to say that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was her new “hero” for his brutal takedown of the California governor in Davos, Switzerland, last week.

“The way he so calmly and confidently obliterated Newscum,” Minaj laughed.

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