The Pattern: Federal Agents Killing People Before Minneapolis Made It National News
The killings in Minneapolis — Renee Good on January 7, Alex Pretti on January 24 — became national stories because of bystander video, community protests, and the sheer scale of Operation Metro Surge. But records obtained by KERA News now reveal that the pattern of fatal shootings by federal immigration agents under the Trump administration began earlier — in Texas, months before the Minneapolis killings that convulsed the nation. The details of the Texas shooting emerged this week as journalists and congressional investigators have been compiling a comprehensive accounting of every fatal encounter between federal immigration agents and civilians since Trump’s expanded enforcement operations began……