Second fatal shooting an 'inflection point' says Tim Walz as protests spread over Saturday's shooting of intensive care nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said America was at an "inflection point" and repeated calls for US President Donald Trump to remove federal immigration agents from the city.
Trump meanwhile called for the governor to "turn over all Criminal Illegal Aliens" incarcerated in state prisons for deportation.
Meanwhile Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara told the BBC that state officers were blocked from accessing the scene of the shooting by federal agents, despite securing a search warrant.
He added that all levels of law enforcement in Minnesota have been working with federal law enforcement "for several years", and that the unfolding situation in Minnesota was hampering agencies' ability to continue such investigations.
Trump signaled in an interview with the Wall Street Journal published on Sunday that he might be willing to eventually withdraw ICE agents from the Minneapolis area, but did not provide a time frame.
He told the outlet: "At some point we will leave. We've done, they've done a phenomenal job."
In the interview, the president added that his administration was "reviewing everything" about Pretti's death and said that it "will come out with a determination".
Lawmakers continue to be divided over the shooting of Pretti, as well as his second Amendment right to bear arms.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Pretti was shot because he was "brandishing" a gun. Local authorities say the gun was legally registered, he was not brandishing it, and he was shot after the gun was removed.
The Trump administration has described Pretti as a "domestic terrorist".
Pretti's family issued a statement in response to the comment saying "the sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting".
His family said he had no interaction with law enforcement b
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