Pritzker, Johnson call for ICE to be abolished after second fatal shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis

Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Prizker both called for the abolishment of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency on Saturday, after federal agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, where thousands of federal officers have been carrying out President Donald Trump's ramped up immigration enforcement campaign.

Pritzker, in a social media post, said: "It's time to abolish Trump's ICE."

Johnson, in his own social media post, referred to a large anti-ICE protest in Minneapolis on Friday.

"One day after hundreds of thousands took to the streets to remind us of our shared humanity, ICE murdered another innocent person in Minneapolis. We are praying for the victim and their loved ones," Johnson wrote. "When they come for one of us, they come for all of us. ICE must be abolished."

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said a 37-year-old man, identified as a local ICU nurse, Alex Pretti, was killed in the shooting.

Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement that federal officers were conducting a targeted operation and fired “defensive shots” after a man with a handgun approached them and “violently resisted” when officers tried to disarm him. O’Hara said police believe the man was a “lawful gun owner with a permit to carry.” The officer who shot the man is an eight-year Border Patrol veteran, federal officials said.

DHS said 2,000 federal officers were stationed in Minnesota and have arrested more than 3,000 people over the past six weeks as part of a major immigration enforcement operation. In Minneapolis and surrounding areas, federal agents, at times led by U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino, have carried out raids that have resulted in clashes with residents and protesters demanding they leave their neighborhoods.

Gov. JB Pritzker, speaking on CNN, it was "time" for federal immigration agents to leave Minnesota.

"They’re killing people on our American streets and the American people are reacting as they should, with outrage," Prizker said Saturday.

Pritzker said that while local police were trying to keep the peace, federal officers were "fomenting violence" so that Trump could invoke the Insurrection Act, allowing the deployment of federal military troops to U.S. cities.

Pritzker praised Minnesota Gov. Tim Waltz for saying the state would lead the investigation into the latest fatal shooting.

"It should be a state investigation because the federal government is proven to be liars," Pritzker said.

The man is the third person to be shot in Minnesota by federal agents this month. He was shot only a mile from where Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen, was killed by an ICE agent on Jan. 7. Another man, Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis of Venezuela, was shot in the leg Jan. 15.

"These ICE and CBP officers are untrained, they’re unqualified, unprofessional and they’re dangerous," Pritzker said.