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Alex Pretti shooting in Minneapolis thrusts US Border Patrol’s history of aggressive tactics into view
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A banner reading “ICE out of MN” hanging on the side of Wrecktangle Pizza in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Feb 2.
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Eileen Sullivan, Jazmine Ulloa
It happened in a remote area near Laredo, Texas, not far from the Rio Grande, in May 2018.
Ms Claudia Patricia Gomez Gonzalez, 20, of Guatemala, was walking with a group of other migrants when a US Border Patrol agent spotted them in the brush. Most of the others ran, but Ms Gomez, unarmed, took a step forward. The agent shot her in the head.
