A federal judge late on Jan. 24 ordered the Trump administration to retain all evidence related to the fatal shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti during an altercation with Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis earlier that day.
In his order, Judge Eric Tostrud of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota wrote that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials and other federal agency officials are prohibited from “destroying or altering evidence related to the fatal shooting ... including but not limited to evidence that Defendants and those working on their behalf removed from the scene and/or evidence that Defendants have taken into their exclusive custody.”
