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Use of force by federal agents

The analysis of confrontations involving armed private citizens and federal agents, with courts weighing state self-defense law and constitutional limits on government force.

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Jan 24, 2026
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Were firearms found in Renee Goods residence

Reported coverage of the that killed contains detailed descriptions of wounds, agent actions, and official statements, but none of the sources reviewed report that firearms were found inside Good’s re...

Jan 14, 2026
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How many ice agents have been injured

The available reporting does not provide a single, authoritative tally of how many ICE agents have been injured; federal releases give counts of assaults and vehicular attacks against ICE officers, an...

Jan 25, 2026
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What do the full, unedited videos of the Minneapolis incident show about when and how the handgun first appears?

Full, unedited bystander and surveillance videos collected and analyzed by multiple news organizations show moving toward and being wrestled to the ground by , with one or more agents emerging from th...

Jan 27, 2026

raw alex pretti shooting footage

Raw footage of the shooting that exists in multiple bystander videos and reportedly on officers’ body‑worn cameras and on a phone Pretti was holding, but the full official video from federal sources h...

Jan 27, 2026

How have bystander videos of the Pretti shooting been analyzed for timeline and possession of the firearm?

Bystander videos from multiple angles have been used by news outlets and experts to construct a tightly paced timeline showing that agents subdued , one agent removed a handgun from Pretti’s waistband...

Jan 25, 2026

What do bystander and agency videos show about the timeline of the Alex Pretti shooting?

Bystander footage assembled and verified by multiple outlets shows standing in the street filming and then moving toward a fallen woman as in olive-green uniforms confront protesters, after which seve...

Jan 27, 2026

What exactly did bystander videos show about the moments before and after the shooting of Alex Pretti?

Bystander videos recorded several angles of the confrontation that led to ’s death and consistently show him holding a cellphone and intervening amid a chaotic enforcement action rather than visibly b...

Jan 25, 2026

who is agent ez-17

EZ‑17 is the uniform‑patch identifier of an elite officer who was filmed firing a B&T GL06 40mm less‑lethal launcher at protesters in in the aftermath of ’s fatal shooting; open‑source investigators a...

Jan 29, 2026

pretti

A preliminary internal review by found that two federal officers fired on after he resisted arrest, but the review did not report that Pretti brandished a weapon — a central claim repeatedly made by o...

Feb 1, 2026

Did Alex Pressi get executed by ice?

— was fatally shot by on , a fact reported across major outlets . Whether that killing legally or factually amounts to an “execution” is contested: activists, politicians and unions call it an executi...

Jan 31, 2026

What official investigations or internal DHS reviews have been opened about tear‑gas deployments near schools since January 2026?

Since January 2026 multiple federal and state-level inquiries sparked by aggressive federal immigration‑enforcement operations in and have touched on the use of , but the public record shows investiga...

Jan 26, 2026

alex pritti was hit in the face multiple times with a gun, surrounded by 8+ agents and then 8+ shots unloaded on them. true r not true

The most defensible facts in the record are that was restrained by multiple federal agents and then shot several times — news outlets report about ten shots in total — and that video footage circulati...

Jan 26, 2026

Did agent have finger bitten off by protestor in Minneapolis

Federal and Homeland Security officials publicly say a officer had part of his finger bitten off during clashes with protesters in ; the posted graphic photos and named suspects while at least one arr...

Jan 24, 2026

Renee Wood shooting

On Jan. 7 in , agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed while she was in her vehicle, an encounter that unfolded in seconds and immediately sparked widespread protests and national debate over and . Confli...

Feb 5, 2026

How do Minnesota courts interpret confrontations between legally armed private citizens and federal law enforcement?

courts have moved between protecting citizens’ constitutional safeguards in the face of and deferring to the Executive Branch’s broad authority to conduct federal law enforcement, issuing limited inju...

Feb 4, 2026

Which legal cases or criminal charges have arisen from attacks on federal immigration officers during 2025–2026?

Reporting from federal and mainstream outlets shows two clear strands of legal activity tied to : criminal arrests and prosecutions of people accused of attacking / officers—most visibly in a string o...

Feb 1, 2026

Alex prittei

intensive care nurse at the VA, was shot and killed by in Minneapolis on January 24, 2026; his death has prompted national scrutiny, conflicting accounts of the encounter, and a . Friends and family d...

Feb 1, 2026

What video shows the angle where pretti is shot

The clearest publicly available angle showing the moment is shot is a dash‑cam/inside‑car bystander video taken at street level near where he died; that clip captures the close‑up chaos as agents swar...

Jan 23, 2026

Which courts have issued orders requiring federal immigration agents to wear and activate body cameras, and with what outcomes?

A federal judge in the , , issued orders in mid‑October 2025 directing federal immigration agents working in the area who already possess and have been trained on body‑worn cameras to wear and activat...

Jan 20, 2026

What do use-of-force investigators look for when reviewing shootings involving vehicles by federal agents?

Use-of-force investigators reviewing shootings involving vehicles focus on whether the agent reasonably perceived an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury and whether deadly force was the ...