says the two officers who shot and killed Alex Freddie were immediately put on a paid administrative leave. That's according to an official with direct knowledge of the situation. The administrative leave was for three days with the option to take additional time off.The official said the agents have since met with a mental health professional, which is Border Patrol standard operating procedure for any employee involved in a fatal incident just like this one. Both officers will be placed on desk duty upon ...

THE FATAL SHOOTINGS OF RENEE NICOLE GOO AND THE WAY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATI HAS SMEARED THEIR NAMES, REFUSED TO INVESTIGATE THE AGENTS RESPONSIBLE AND INSTEAD DEFENDED THEM LARGELY. THAT NEWS HAS BROKEN OUT BEYOND JUST NORMAL POLITICAL SPACES AND BROUGHT POLITICS REALLY FRONT AND CENTER IN ALL SORTS OF NON-POLITICAL SPACES. AND THIS TO ME IS ALWAYS A TELL.I MEAN, TAKE FOR INSTANCE THE PAGE ON THE WEBSITE REDDIT CALLED r slash cat bongos. THIS IS A REAL THING. LOTS OF PEOPLE ON THIS PAGE.THAT SUBREDDIT BILLS ...

prosecutor, what you're going to look at is a very simple fact. And that is, were Were the officers, when they killed Alex Preddy, were they reasonable in fearing for their lives. That's it. That's the defense they have. The only defense they have is that they reasonably believed that their lives were in danger.So you can take the video that we just have seen of him kicking the taillight, you can take him showing agitation towards ICE, you can take anything that happened before they had him down on the grou ...

Welcome to Meet the Press Now. I'm Kristen Welker in Washington where the White House appears to be shifting both its tone and its tactics in Minnesota with the president acknowledging a need to quote deescalate as the political fallout from the fatal shootings of two American citizens continues to grow. But even as the White House tries to turn down the temperature, the president today also warning Minneapolis mayor quote not to play with fire and to cooperate with the federal government.In an interview wi ...

We're back with Miles and Claire Let me just share this reporting in the New York Times this week. ICE recruitment ad posted to pages for White House and DHS on Instagram, Facebook, and X reads, quote, we'll have our home again. Join ICE .gov.Times reports this. Administration social media posts echo white supremacist messaging. Quote, we'll have our home again is also the name of a song written by members of a self-described pro-white fraternal order that has been embraced by the Proud Boys and other white ...

So, and I just want to make it clear. This is not a, this is not me talking about politics. I have been very engaged for a long time, past year especially, with a lot of organizations and activists around the state who saw this day coming.People who have been preparing mutual aid networks, rapid response teams, communication networks, people who really expected this day to arrive. And it's been very heartening and for me, in many ways, a place of hope to see how successful that organizing has been in order ...

Joining us as promised, Democratic Senator fro Connecticut and member of the Senate FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE, CHRIS MURPHY. SENATOR, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR JOINING US. YEAH, THANKS FOR HAVING ME.YOU JUST GOT OUT OF THE SENATE DEMOCRATIC LUNCHEON TALKING ABOUT DHS FUNDING, WHAT TO DO NEXT. CAN YOU TELL US WHAT YOU'VE DECIDED. WELL, I THINK LIKELY SENATOR SCHUMER WILL MAKE THAT A FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT.BUT LISTEN, LET ME SAY WHAT I THINK EVERYBODY IN AMERICA WANTS, AND THAT IS FOR THERE to be reforms that st ...

Governor Josh Shapiro is out with a new book reflecting on his life of public service and personal faith. Entitled, Where We Keep the Light, stories from a life of service, the governor explores his faith, and career in politics, from his tenure as a state representative to Pennsylvania attorney general to now leading a swing state and perhaps one day even the country. And the governor joins us now.It's great to have you back on the show. Congratulations on the book. Great to be back.Thank you. Before we ge ...

GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN. REPUBLICANS ON CAPITOL HILL ARE REJECTING DEMOCRATIC CALLS TO MAKE CHANGES TO A DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY FUNDING BILL. A NUMBER OF DEMOCRATIC SENATORS ARE WARNING NOW THEY WILL NOT THEY ARE URGING REPUBLICANS TO REMOVE THE DHS BILL FROM THE LARGER APPROPRIATIONS PACKAGE TO LET THE OTHER FIVE BILLS FOR OTHER AGENCIES PASS.SENATE Republicans, however, are looking to move all six bills together and are defending ICE officers' funding for equipment and training, even as two fatal sho ...

public criticism is growing after the killing OF ALEX PREDI, INCLUDING AMONG REPUBLICAN NEVADA CONGRESSMAN MARK AMADAY, WHO CHAIRS THE SUBCOMMITTEE RESPONSIBLE FOR DHS FUNDING, TOLD THE NEVADA INDEPENDENT THAT, QUOTE, THERE NEEDS TO BE A PIVOT IN THE WHOLE OPERATION. That's a Republican. He said, we are not in a good place right now.More than a dozen GOP lawmakers have now called for an independent investigation into the fatal shooting. Some are even starting to echo Democratic demands for Homeland Security ...