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By Michael Williams, CNN

(CNN) — Stella Carlson was supposed to spend Saturday morning painting children’s faces at a church. It would have been a welcome contrast to the weekslong onslaught of federal immigration enforcement and protests that have overwhelmed her home in the Twin Cities.

Being an active participant in her community is important for Carlson, and she had spent the last three weeks learning about mutual aid and participating in grassroots efforts to warn her neighbors of impending federal immigration action. The fatal shooting of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer earlier this month proved to Carlson and other Minnesotans that the potential for danger as an observer was not abstract.

“I know every time I leave my vehicle or leave my house and I put that whistle around my neck, I know because of Renee Good, the risk,” she told CNN’s Anderson Cooper during an interview Tuesday. “I think we all knew after that happened, it is now at that point, and it could be any of us.”

But she had no way of knowing that she would soon watch a man die — or that her video of that fatal incident would serve as a crucial counter to the Trump administration’s initial efforts to paint Alex Pretti as a wannabe assassin or domestic terrorist.

On her way to work, and wearing a pink jacket that would become instantly recognizable from other videos of the incident, Carlson heard the sound of whistles that have become the ubiquitous warning of the arrival of immigration officers.

She drove down Nicollet Avenue and saw what she described as a brawl in the street. She thought of Good, who was also driving her car when she was fatally shot. This was when she first noticed Pretti directing traffic.

“It felt like somebody in my opinion, in my background, who was doing a risk assessment and found his place in this moment to be useful,” she said of Pretti.

Carlson got out of her car and began recording.

The video Carlson took showed that Pretti, who had a permit to carry a concealed pistol, never brandished his gun, as Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem first claimed he did (Carlson said she didn’t even know Pretti had been armed until after he was shot, and wouldn’t have gotten so close if she had known). Nor did he approach law enforcement with the intent to assassinate them, as Stephen Miller, the architect of the White House’s immigration policy, also claimed.

Instead, Carlson’s video showed that the 37-year-old ICU nurse who treated veterans spent his last moments trying to help a woman who had been knocked down.

The video also showed that Pretti’s handgun had been removed from its holster by an officer seconds before he was pinned down and shot multiple times, including in his back.

“I remember him arching his back and his head rolling back,” Carlson said. She had previously

Por Emma Tucker, CNN

Un hombre roció una sustancia desconocida hacia la representante de Minneapolis, Ilhan Omar, durante una asamblea pública, segundos después de que la congresista demócrata pidiera la destitución de la secretaria del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional, Kristi Noem, y solicitara la abolición del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE, por sus siglas en inglés).

Los asistentes a la reunión con funcionarios locales y estatales comenzaron a aplaudir tras sus declaraciones. En ese momento, el hombre se acercó al podio, le gritó y aparentemente roció una sustancia con una jeringa. No estaba claro qué era la sustancia ni si alcanzó a Omar, aunque un miembro del personal se escuchó por el micrófono diciendo que la habían rociado y que debía “ir a revisarse”.

El equipo de seguridad de Omar retiró al hombre del lugar y fue puesto bajo custodia policial, según equipos de CNN presentes. Tras hablar con el personal, Omar continuó con la asamblea pública. Se escuchó a la congresista decir: “Estos hijos de p**a no se saldrán con la suya”.

Después del incidente, Omar afirmó que iba a “seguir hablando” y añadió: “Por favor, no dejen que eso arruine el evento”.

“Aquí está la realidad que personas así no comprenden: somos fuertes en Minnesota y seguiremos siendo resilientes ante cualquier cosa que nos lancen”, continuó Omar. “Todos, cálmense, voy a terminar mis declaraciones”.

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By Sarah Ferris, Kristen Holmes, Manu Raju, CNN

(CNN) — Top Democrats in Congress are plunging into an impeachment fight with Kristi Noem, as even some moderate Republicans say they’ve lost faith in the embattled Department of Homeland Security chief – upping the pressure on the administration over what they see as a complete failure in Minnesota.

In a joint statement Tuesday, the top three House Democrats announced they would soon support a vote to impeach Noem — which they can trigger without any GOP support — unless Trump immediately moved to fire her following the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti.

And two moderate Republicans — Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the outspoken centrist of Alaska, and retiring Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina — told reporters Tuesday they wanted Noem out.

In an extraordinary step for House Democratic leaders, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and his team issued a blunt statement threatening impeachment after weeks of trying to steer their members away from such talk, which they saw largely as a distraction given the GOP’s fierce loyalty to the president.

“Taxpayer dollars are being weaponized by the Trump administration to kill American citizens, brutalize communities and violently target law-abiding immigrant families. The country is disgusted by what the Department of Homeland Security has done,” they charged in the scathing statement that painted the pair of recent deaths in Minnesota as an immoral “killing spree.”

Leaders’ thinking changed Saturday night, when federal law enforcement officials fatally shot a second US citizen in Minneapolis in the same month. Democrats now sense a unique opening against Noem, with dozens of Republicans visibly uneasy about the White House’s recent ICE operations and some top chairmen hauling in Trump’s immigration enforcement officials for hearings in the coming weeks.

Even Senate Majority Leader John Thune described the weekend’s deadly shooting as “an “inflection point” on how ICE is being used and declined to say whether he personally had faith in Noem.

Inside the White House, multiple sources said that Noem’s job was not at risk, even though some administration officials were left deeply frustrated this weekend over how Noem — as well as top Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino — handled the fallout from the fatal shooting.

Those frustrations reached the president. Trump spent several hours on Sunday and Monday watching the news coverage of the shooting and was personally unhappy by how his administration was coming across, one official said.

In the hours after the shooting, Noem was in constant touch with a number of White House officials, including Stephen Miller, and briefed them on the “defiant tone” she planned to take, sources told CNN. During that time, she was given guidance on how she should approach the shooting during her later press conference, including a set of talking points on Pretti “brandishing” a gun, sources told CNN.

Sources noted Noem was in lock step with the White House’s posture at the time. But as more videos emerged, the secretary’s rhetoric came under intense scrutiny, prompting Trump to distance himself from Noem and Miller as the administration sought to calm tensions in the state.

Trump told reporters that Pretti was not an “assassin,” a description Miller had used Saturday, and then later said he hadn’t heard rhetoric calling Pretti a “domestic terrorist,” a phrase Noem had used in her press con

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Por Valeria León, CNN en Español

En medio de las presiones de Estados Unidos hacia Cuba, un país cuya demanda energética en buena medida dependía hasta este año de los embarques de petróleo de naciones como Venezuela o México, la presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum dijo este martes que estos envíos desde territorio mexicano son “una decisión soberana” a cargo de la empresa estatal Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), aunque no aclaró si estas exportaciones se mantienen o no.

La mandataria se refirió al tema durante su conferencia de prensa matutina, en la que se le preguntó por un reporte de la agencia Bloomberg según el cual Pemex suspendió la venta de petróleo a Cuba.

Como ha dicho en otras ocasiones, Sheinbaum dijo que México envía petróleo a Cuba “por razones humanitarias” ante el bloqueo económico que Estados Unidos mantiene sobre la isla desde hace décadas.

“Como hemos dicho: es una decisión soberana y Pemex toma sus decisiones”, respondió la presidenta. “Entonces, la decisión de cuándo se envía, cómo se envía, es una decisión soberana. Y está en términos de lo que defina Pemex en función de los contratos o ya, en todo caso, del Gobierno de una decisión humanitaria de enviar en determinadas circunstancias”, añadió, sin aclarar el estatus de estos envíos.

CNN solicitó información a la Subdirección de Abasto de Pemex sobre la supuesta cancelación del envío petróleo a Cuba, pero hasta el momento no ha obtenido respuesta.

En su cuenta de X, la petrolera únicamente publicó un video que reproduce las declaraciones de Sheinbaum de la mañana de este martes.

Esta no es la primera vez que el Gobierno de Sheinbaum recibe preguntas sobre los envíos de petróleo de México a Cuba, un país que enfrenta presiones por parte de Estados Unidos, más aún después de que Washington realizara el 3 de enero un operativo militar para detener al presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, viejo aliado del Gobierno cubano. Esta misma semana, el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, dijo que Cuba “está a punto de caer”.

La semana pasada, la agencia Reuters reportó que el Gobierno de México estaba considerando detener los envíos de petróleo a Cuba ante crecientes temores sobre que el país pudiera enfrentar represalias de Washington.

Hoy, con el nuevo reporte de Bloomberg, se intensificaron la atención y las dudas sobre si México seguirá o no enviando petróleo a la isla, de la que se ha convertido en uno de sus grandes proveedores, de acuerdo con varios analistas del sector energético consultados por CNN.

Ante las preguntas de la prensa, Sheinbaum hasta ahora no ha dado respuestas claras. Todo esto, en un contexto en el que México busca, al mismo tiempo, mantener una buena relación con su vecino y principal socio comercial y exigir respeto a su soberanía.

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