House committee report accuses White House, DHS of Good, Pretti killings cover-up

[ad_1] The Democratic members of a U.S. Home committee have launched the findings of a report inspecting final month's deadly shootings in Minneapolis by federal immigration officers .

Renee Good was shot lifeless by ICE officer Jonathan Ross on Jan. 7, 2025, and Alex Pretti was killed by two Border Patrol officers on Jan. 24.

Democratic California Rep. Robert Garcia, the rating member of the Home Committee on Oversight and Authorities Reform, laid out 4 of the report's key findings:

"The Trump Administration's excessive insurance policies, violent ways, and tradition of impunity led to the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.""The Trump Administration's lies in regards to the killings can not cowl up what the American folks noticed with their very own eyes.""The obtainable proof means that the Trump Administration is making an attempt to cowl up misconduct." "The Trump Administration is constant its cover-up by impeding thorough and neutral investigations into the shootings." The report additionally highlights how proof counters the administration's preliminary claims that each victims have been home terrorists aiming to hurt federal regulation enforcement.

"Let's be clear: the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti may have been prevented, and they need to each nonetheless be alive," Garcia wrote. "President Trump, [Homeland Security Secretary] Kristi Noem, and [the U.S. Department of Homeland Security] have lied again and again and are actually making an attempt to cowl up the reality. The Trump Administration must be held accountable."

In an announcement to WCCO, White Home spokesperson Abigail Jackson defended the work of federal officers.

"Federal regulation enforcement officers are heroically eradicating harmful legal unlawful aliens from American communities – together with murderers, rapists, and pedophiles. The Trump Administration is grateful for his or her essential work," Jackson mentioned.

WCCO has additionally reached out to Homeland Safety for remark.

The committee, chaired by Kentucky Republican Rep. James Comer, is presently comprised of 44 representatives: 24 Republicans and 20 Democrats.

Republican members embrace Reps. Jim Jordan, Paul Gosar, Virginia Foxx, Pete Classes, Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert. Its Democratic members embrace Reps. Eleanor Holmes Norton, Kwesisi Mfume, Shontel Brown, Jasmine Crockett, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib.

Good's brothers, Brent and Luke Ganger, are set to testify Tuesday afternoon at a public Congressional discussion board co-led by Garcia on "the violent ways and disproportionate use of power by brokers of the Division of Homeland Safety." This story will probably be up to date.