CNN’s Kasie Hunt asks Mayor Jacob Frey about Vance’s response over Alex Pretti’s shooting from ICE agent:

KASIE HUNT, CNN HOST: I want to play for you something that the Vice President said in an interview today with the Daily Mail. He was asked whether or not he planned to apologize to the family of Alex Pretti, who was of course shot on the street by federal agents. I want to show you what the vice president said and then get your reaction. Let’s watch. DAILY MAIL REPORTER: Have you apologized? Did you plan to apologize to the family of Alex Pretti? VICE PRESIDENT J.D. VANCE: For what? REPORTER: For, you know, labeling him an assassin with ill intent. VANCE: Well, again, I just described to you what I said about Alex Pretti, which is that he’s a guy who showed up with ill intent to an ICE protest. REPORTER: But if it is determined that his civil rights were violated by this FBI investigation, will you apologize? VANCE: So if this hypothetical leads to that hypothetical leads to another hypothetical, will I do a thing? And again, like I said, we’re going to let the investigation determine. We’re going to let the actual law come to the surface and figure out what happened. HUNT: Mr. Mayor, does Alex Pretti and his family deserve an apology from the vice president of the United States? MINNEAPOLIS MAYOR JACOB FREY: I apologize to the family of Alex Pretti because he did not deserve to be killed. So obviously I, we all dictate our own conduct. We determine what we decide to do and, you know, he should not have been killed. And so I am sorry to the family of Alex Pretti because that should not have happened at the hands of a government. HUNT: And what about the labeling of him as an assassin? That’s what some in the administration did. Does he deserve an apology for that? FREY: Yeah, of course. I mean, this was one of my biggest frustrations from the very first moments following the killing of Renee Good. You know, before I went out there to do that very first press conference, I learned that head officials from the federal government were saying that the ICE agent was acting purely in self-defense. And I don’t know, an hour or two later, Renee Good herself was labeled as a domestic terrorist. That does not signal a full and fair investigation. That does not signal that there is a lack of conclusion being jumped to prior to the completion of a neutral investigation. Not to mention, it runs counter to what I think we’re all seeing with our own two eyes. And so this is an instance where, yeah, you can believe what you’re seeing. And at the same time, we need a fair investigation to be carried out. And we have called for that investigation to be carried out by the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension at the state level.

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