Walz calls for federal agents to leave and for accountability
Governor of Minnesota
“I'm not so interested in shift in tone. We just need them out of here, and we need accountability for what's happened.”
Source and context
Reporting
About this source
ABC News live-blog entry reporting Minnesota Governor Tim Walz's visit to a memorial for Alex Pretti and his on-camera comments to ABC News correspondent Matt Rivers about Operation Metro Surge and accountability for the shooting.
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Walz visited a memorial for Pretti and spoke with ABC News correspondent Matt Rivers about the shooting and Operation Metro Surge.
After the quotation
Walz had separately called DHS's initial account of the shooting 'nonsense' and 'lies' and demanded that federal agents leave Minnesota.
How this statement is classified
Case context: Were Border Patrol Agent Jesus Ochoa and CBP Officer Raymundo Gutierrez justified in fatally shooting Alex Pretti?
The label describes this statement’s response within the context above.
Why this label?
Walz rejects the administration's account and explicitly demands accountability for the shooting, which condemns the agents' use of force rather than excusing or minimizing it.
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Were Border Patrol Agent Jesus Ochoa and CBP Officer Raymundo Gutierrez justified in fatally shooting Alex Pretti?
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