“…Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, on Saturday after he was subdued and on his hands and knees. He had a permit to carry a weapon, which the agents found on him before the killing.”

by María Paula Mijares Torres for Bloomberg News

“Pretti put his hands above his head, the witness said. An agent pepper-sprayed him again and pushed Pretti. The witness said Pretti appeared to then help a woman who had been shoved to the ground. Agents then grabbed Pretti and pulled him to the street.

“Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him,” the witness said, stating she was 5 feet from the incident. “They shot him so many times.””

— by Sarah Nelson for The Minnesota Star Tribune

Multiple videos of the confrontation Saturday showed federal agents spraying Pretti with a substance and pinning him to the ground before the shooting. The Department of Homeland Security alleged that Pretti approached Border Patrol agents with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun, and "violently resisted" when agents tried to disarm him. Local officials have disputed that characterization.

— by Ivan Pereira and Mark Guarino for ABC News

Senate Republican leaders plan to reject Democratic demands to split off funding for the Department of Homeland Security and pass the rest of a giant funding package needed to avert a partial government shutdown this week, a Senate GOP aide said.

While some Senate Republicans have insisted on a full investigation after Border Patrol agents killed Alex Pretti on Saturday, Republicans will still try to pass the full spending package that has money for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol.

— by Steven T. Dennis and Erik Wasson for Bloomberg News

Attribution

No one hears the ghost prisoner.
Whether he groans or bears stoically
what instruments we’ve paid to play
this march toward a freedom so absurd
we wake and silently shake our heads.
We do not speak ill of the dead.

— from Ghost Prisoner by Heid E. Erdrich