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Minneapolis shooting: Barack and Michelle Obama call out Trump and ICE for ‘assault’ on nation’s core values

todayJanuary 25, 2026

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‘This has to stop’, former president and first lady said in a statement on the killing of Alex Pretti by federal agents

Alex Pretti, a Veterans Affairs Hospital ICU nurse, was said to be deeply upset about the Trump administration’s sometimes brutal immigration crackdown. The 37-year-old has been described as kindhearted by his friends and family (see opening post to read what his parents said about him in a statement issued after he was killed).

Dimitri Drekonja, chief of the Infectious Diseases Section at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs hospital and a colleague of Pretti, called him “a good kind person who lived to help.” Pretti was a nurse working “to support critically ill veterans,” he added.

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Source: www.theguardian.com

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