Melania needs to see unity and peaceable protests in opposition to ICE after taking pictures of Alex Pretti | EUROtoday

First Lady Melania Trump known as for peaceable protesting in Minneapolis as demonstrators proceed to take to the streets following the deadly taking pictures of ICU nurse Alex Pretti by a federal agent.

“I’m calling for unity. I know my husband, the president, had a great call yesterday with the governor and the mayor, and they’re working together to make it peaceful and without riots. I’m against the violence, so please, if you protest, protest in peace. And we need to unify in this time,” she mentioned Tuesday morning on Fox & Friends.

Her plea for peace comes a day after President Donald Trump mentioned he had “very good” calls with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, and agreed to tug some federal immigration officers from the state as protests swell. It additionally comes because the commander of Trump’s immigration crackdown, Greg Bovino, is being pulled from his position in Minneapolis.

Anti-ICE protests have been in full swing in Minneapolis since brokers descended on the town in December, although they’ve solely intensified following the deadly shootings of Pretti on Saturday and Renee Nicole Good on January 7.

Trump administration officers declare the pictures had been fired “defensively” in opposition to Pretti, who federal authorities mentioned had a semiautomatic handgun and was “violently” resisting officers. However, bystander videos appear to show Pretti with only a phone in his hand.

This version of events has been challenged by Pretti’s family, who said in a statement the “sickening lies” instructed by the administration are “reprehensible and disgusting.”

“Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs,” the household mentioned.

Videos circulating on-line confirmed a 30-second scuffle between Pretti and federal brokers earlier than the 37-year-old nurse was shot.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey mentioned he noticed a number of bystander movies of the taking pictures, and described seeing “greater than six masked brokers pummeling one in every of our constituents, taking pictures him to dying.”

Melania Trump’s look on Fox News comes as her documentary Melania, helmed by disgraced director Brett Ratner and licensed by Amazon as a part of a reported $40 million deal, premieres this weekend.

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