Monday, MS NOW’s Chris Hayes hosted “All In with Chris Hayes” live from Minneapolis, where he reflected on the fatal shooting of 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti by federal immigration officers over the weekend.

CHRIS HAYES, HOST:  Good evening from Minneapolis, Minnesota, I’m Chris Hayes.  And I am here tonight on Nicollet Avenue.  That’s the site of the brutal killing of a United States citizen by his own government.  And we’re here on Nicollet Avenue just a few hundred feet from a group of mourners who were just singing hymns.  We’re here outside in the brutal cold, and it’s brutal, because history is being made here in Minnesota.  It’s being made by the people who live here and who refuse day by day to give in or to give up.   In the aftermath of that shooting that just happened over my shoulder, it’s become clear in the last few days that something, something is shifting, not just here in Minnesota, but across the country.  And when the record of this era is written down, what has happened here is likely to play some decisive role in what kind of country we have on the other side of all this.   What happened here in Minneapolis over the last few weeks, as is so often the case in history, is tragic.  A masked man took the life of a 37-year-old mother of three and poet, Renee Good.  She was shot to death at point blank range by an agent of her own government.  And then this weekend took the life of Alex Pretti, also 37, an ICU nurse who was shot repeatedly by agents of his own government in the back as he was prone on the ground.   Good and Pretti knew there was risk in what they were doing.  They knew it.  I mean, certainly Alex Pretti did two weeks after Renee Good was shot, but they did it anyway, and they died protecting their neighbors.  I think their names are going to be in the ledger of this country’s most elemental struggles.  Decades from now, people will know their names.  They will be known and celebrated.  There will be memorials to them.  And they will rightly be remembered as martyrs to our union.   But what’s remarkable is that they are just two out of hundreds, thousands, maybe even tens of thousands of ordinary people who have mobilized in this moment, clear-eyed about the risks, which could not be clearer, to stand shoulder and shoulder with their neighbors and protect them against the predations of their own government, which is supposed to protect them.   It is clear just in the day that I’ve been here, these are not just protests.  This is a standoff.  And here’s the thing.  Improbably, it seems to be working.  The Trump administration is desperately backpedaling as the backlash against what we have seen on these streets grows far beyond this city and cable news channels.   The Border Patrol commander in charge, Greg Bovino, is now out.  He’s headed home to California along with many of his agents.  A new border czar has arrived, Tom Homan, who is here now, apparently the grown-up sent him by Trump, who said the words tonight, we’re going to de-escalate a little bit.   (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES:  You know, Bovino is very good, but he’s a pretty out-there kind of a guy.  And in some cases, that’s good.  Maybe it wasn’t good here.  And that’s all working out.  You know we have Tom Homan there now.  We put him in there.  He’s great.  And they met with the governor, the mayor, everybody else.  And we’ll — we’re going to de-escalate a little bit.   (END VIDEO CLIP) HAYES:  We’re going to de-escalate a little bit. What — does it mean anything?  Is it a start?  We hope it’s a start.  There’s more to go.  Democrats and even Republicans now on Capitol Hill are calling for investigations into DHS and to ICE and to the shooting of Alex Pretti, as Democrats consider a partial government shutdown to block ICE funding.  House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told MS Now today that Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem needs to be fired or be impeached.   (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) REP. HAKEEM JEFFRIES (D-NY), HOUSE MINORITY LEADER:  House Democrats have called for her to be fired immediately.  And in the event that she is not terminated, we are prepared to initiate impeachment proceedings against her in the House of Representatives.   (END VIDEO CLIP) HAYES:  Now that’s Hakeem Jeffries.  But here’s Republican Senator Thom Tillis tonight.  Quote, I think what she’s done in Minnesota should be disqualifying.  She should be out of a job.  She needs to go.   Again, all of this is happening because ordinary people have chosen to do something extraordinary.  And ordinary people doing the extraordinary is the alchemy of democracy.  It all comes down to that, right?  The fate of the nation depends on it.  And they’re still standing up.  There has been no break.  

Watch Hayes’ ride-along with Minneapolis “ICE Watch” members:
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