After the fatal shooting of nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, the White House blamed the ruling Democrats in the state of Minnesota for the violence. The real reason for the “tragedy” is the Democrats’ “hostile resistance” to President Donald Trump’s deportation policy, said his spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt on Monday in Washington.
“No one in the White House, including President Trump, wants to see people injured or killed on America’s streets,” Leavitt continued. This applies to Pretti as well as to her mother Renee Nicole Good, who was killed at the beginning of the year.
There is a “clear and simple path to restoring law and order” that Trump discussed by telephone with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Leavitt said. Trump is calling on those responsible in Minnesota to hand over all “criminal illegal aliens” to the emergency services.
The aircraft carrier “USS Abraham Lincoln” has arrived in the area of responsibility of the US military’s Centcom regional command, which covers the Middle East including Iran. The aircraft carrier strike group is currently deployed in the Middle East “to promote regional security and stability,” Centcom said on Platform X. On Monday the aircraft carrier was traveling in the Indian Ocean. There was no further information about the location.
US President Donald Trump recently did not rule out military intervention by his country in Iran. “We have a huge fleet heading in this direction,” the Republican told reporters a few days ago. “And maybe we don’t have to use them, we’ll see,” he added. Many ships are on their way to the region just in case. “I would prefer that nothing happens, but we are watching them very closely,” Trump said of Iran.
A reaction from Iran followed promptly. “The armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran are monitoring the enemy’s movements,” a senior military official in the central operations command told state radio. The presence of “foreign forces” in the maritime environment turns them into “easily achievable targets,” it said.
Alex Pretti was killed by US officials in Minneapolis. The outcry is huge. Now he has also arrived in the NBA, where fans are clearly reacting. Read more about this here.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz intervened in the debate about the fatal shooting of a nurse in Minnesota by US federal officials with unusually clear words. “In any case, I have to say, I find this level of use of violence in the USA worrying, to put it that way,” he said at a press conference after the North Sea summit in Hamburg. “I assume that the American authorities are now really clarifying whether it was necessary to shoot here and whether there was really a threat to the officers involved.”
