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Greg Ketter has spent nearly five decades selling comic books and science fiction novels at DreamHaven Books and Comics in Minneapolis. This week, his phone hasn't stopped ringing.

Dozens of people throughout the community joined together in prayer in front of the Stockton Memorial Civic Auditorium for a 'Prayer Vigil for Justice, Unity, and Healing,' wanting Minneapolis to know they are not alone.

The View doesn't shy away from major topics, and the conversation on everyone's lips today was about ICE shooting and killing Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Jan. 24. This took place as people fervently protest ICE's presence in the city and their killing Renée Good in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.

In Sunday afternoon’s zero degree temperatures, about 60 dedicated individuals braved the cold to gather in an emergency solidarity protest against the occupation of ICE in Minneapolis. Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an ICU nurse who worked at the Minneapolis VA hospital, was identified as the man killed by a Border...

I live smack dab in the middle of an ordinary block in Minneapolis. I borrow occasional eggs or vanilla from the neighbor on my right when I get caught short baking. My partner shovels our elderly neighbor’s sidewalk; she knit him a hat in gratitude. The folks down the street watch our cats when we’re away. In other...

LINCOLN—(KFOR Jan. 26)–The deadly shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti, a nurse that was allegedly shot by a federal immigration agent on Saturday in Minneapolis, prompted more protests in the Twin Cities and across the country, including in Lincoln. Former KFOR personality Ward Jacobson, who lives in Minneapolis and...

Editor’s note: This piece was submitted before ICE agents killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. That event makes Kline’s remarks all the more compelling. Over 200 people stood on and near the steps of the Brookings Post Office this past Friday evening. They stood for half an hour, in silence with candles, in memory of...

Alex Pretti was fatally shot by a federal officer in Minneapolis on Saturday, Jan. 26

MINNEAPOLIS — In the moments after another fatal shooting in Minneapolis at the hands of a federal agent, Eat Street turned chaotic. Federal agents used chemical irritants and flash bangs to back the crowd up. Some agents used the gas to stop protesters from following them as they left.

A local father and his two young daughters took to the streets Sunday to protest the killing of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by federal law enforcement agents in Minneapolis. Andrew Orta, a Yuma resident, stood on the corner of 4th Avenue and 24th Street holding a red poster reading “Justice for Alex Pretti,” alongside...