""In a bid to ease tensions, the International Association of Chiefs of Police called on the White House to convene discussions "as soon as practicable" among federal, state and local law enforcement." "Every police chief in the country is watching Minneapolis very carefully," said Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, a police research and policy organization. "If a police chief had three officer-involved shootings in three weeks, they would be stepping back and asking, 'What does our training look like? What does our policy look like?'""
""Pretti's death came on the heels of the Jan. 7 fatal shooting of Renee Good and another incident a week later in Minneapolis when a federal officer shot a man in the leg after being attacked with a shovel and broom handle while attempting to arrest a Venezuelan who was in the country illegally." "We're dealing with a federal agency here," Wexler said, referring to the Department of Homeland Security, "but its actions can have a ripple effect across the entire country.""
Leaders of law enforcement organizations expressed alarm over a deadly shooting by federal officers in Minneapolis and called for intergovernmental discussions to ease tensions. Bystander footage prompted use-of-force experts to question federal claims that the suspect approached officers with a firearm and that the shooting was defensive. The Justice Department faced criticism for not opening a civil rights inquiry and for blocking Minnesota authorities from conducting their own review. The incident followed two other recent fatal or violent encounters involving federal officers in Minneapolis, raising concerns about agency practices, training, and nationwide ripple effects.
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