With the entire nation focused on Minneapolis after the brutal killing of U.S. citizen Alex Pretti at the hands of U.S. Border Patrol agents during ‘Operation Metro Surge’ just weeks after an ICE agent shot and killed U.S. citizen Renee Good under the banner of the same operation, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz indicated that the federal government’s actions after the killings represent another layer of authoritarian menace to his citizens.
Responding during an interview to a suggestion about stopping the federal harassment of “people who aren’t doing anything wrong,” the racial profiling, and the harassment of protestors, Walz responded that these were issues he would take up with Tom Homan, the border czar Donald Trump dispatched to Minnesota in the wake of the Pretti killing.
Calling the issues “foundational,” Walz contended that the harassment — the terrorizing of people by masked federal agents — represented “moral injury we’re living through.”
The Governor then offered an example of how far beyond the shootings that moral injury extended, in his view.
“They still have an active federal investigation into the wife of Renee Good. And that is demented [expletive] right there,” Walz told The Bulwark‘s Tim Miller. “That investigation is one that, I mean, it is beyond the pale and the average Minnesotan is so horrified by it.”
[NOTE: DHS portrayed Good as a “radical” activist justly killed for interfering with federal law enforcement.]
Talking about building a coalition to stop the harassment, Walz said “we added some folks, we added the Second Amendment folks” — meaning those, like members of the NRA leadership, who take issue with the accusation made by high-level Trump administration officials that Pretti’s lawful carrying of a licensed firearm — never brandished — made him a legitimate target.
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