Opinion | ‘We Are Creating the Conditions for a Catastrophe’: Three Columnists on the Shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis - The New York Times

Matthew Rose, an Opinion editorial director, hosted an online conversation with three Opinion columnists. Matthew Rose: On Saturday, agents from the border patrol in Minneapolis shot and killed Alex Pretti, an American citizen. We don’t have a full accounting of what happened, but the available video evidence shows he was filming the agents with his phone, as many locals have done since the full weight of federal immigration enforcement descended on the city. Lydia, you’ve been to Minneapolis recently. Tell us what you saw and give us some context for what just happened. Lydia Polgreen: I have never been a fan of the conceit of American journalists covering the United States as if it were a backwater foreign nation, but in Minneapolis last week I could not shake the impulse to compare my experiences in a city I know so well (I spent a chunk of my childhood in the Twin Cities, and my father is from Minneapolis) with my experiences covering civil wars in places like Congo, Sudan, Sri Lan

Matthew Rose, an Opinion editorial director, hosted an online conversation with three Opinion columnists. Matthew Rose: On Saturday, agents from the border patrol in Minneapolis shot and killed Alex Pretti, an American citizen. We don’t have a full accounting of what happened, but the available video evidence shows he was filming the agents with his phone, as many locals have done since the full weight of federal immigration enforcement descended on the city. Lydia, you’ve been to Minneapolis recently. Tell us what you saw and give us some context for what just happened. Lydia Polgreen: I have