Why Donald Trump said he feels ‘terrible’ about Alex Pretti but ‘even worse’ about Renee Good

Just days after Alex Pretti was killed by US federal agents in Minneapolis, Donald Trump has appeared to rank how “bad” he feels about his death in relation to Renee Good’s.

In an interview on The Will Cain Show on Fox News, the US President began by saying both shootings were “terrible”.

“Bottom line, it was terrible. Both of them were terrible; the other was terrible too,” Mr Trump said.

He went on to reveal that Ms Good’s death made him feel worse because according to him, her parents were Trump supporters.

“And I’m not sure about his parents, but I know her parents were big Trump fans, makes me feel bad anyway.

“But I guess you could say even worse, they were tremendous Trump people, Trump fans.”

The 79-year-old then turned to question Ms Good’s political mindset.

“I don’t know that you could say radicalised, maybe radicalised, maybe not,” he said.

“I don’t know, but I hate to see it.”

When the 37-year-old mother was killed on January 7, footage of the shooting went viral on social media.

She had only recently moved to the Minnesota city, and was placed there as a legal observer of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities.

A private autopsy determined she was shot three times while inside her car, with bullets hitting her in her forearm, breast and head.

Her death raised tensions in Minneapolis, as the Trump administration insisted she had “aimed her car at ICE”, resulting in an officer firing at her in self-defence.

That narrative has been contradicted by video clips which appear to show Ms Good steering away from the agent.

Mr Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse and participant of anti-ICE protests, was killed on January 24. The New York Times analysed video footage of the minute in the lead up to the shooting, which appeared to show Mr Pretti filming civilians who were shoved by a department of homeland security agent toward a car.

It then shows him trying to put himself between the people and the agent, who appears to release pepper spray toward Mr Pretti’s face.

Seven agents surround Mr Pretti before shots began to be fired.

Anti-ICE protests are ongoing in Minneapolis, and the city’s mayor Jacob Frey has continued calls for the agents to “get out”.

In a scathing speech delivered after Ms Good’s death, Mr Frey told ICE to “get the f..k out”.

“We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety and you’re doing exactly the opposite,” he said.

Following the shooting of Mr Pretti, Mr Frey continued calling on Donald Trump to end the ICE operation.

“How many times must local and national leaders plead with you, Donald Trump, to end this operation and recognize that this is not creating safety in our city,” he said.

“The invasion of these heavily armed, masked agents roaming around on our streets of Minneapolis, emboldened with a sense of impunity – it has to end. This is not how it has to be.”

While the Trump administration continues to push for increased deportation numbers from ICE action, protests continue across the country.

As thousands of ICE agents continue to patrol Minneapolis, Mr Frey is just one voice calling for the operation to cease.

Tim Walz, Minnesota’s governor, said Mr Trump was looking into reducing the number of federal agents in Minnesota.

Mr Frey said he and the US President had agreed that the present situation could not continue.

This comes as Mr Trump said he would send Tom Homan the “border tsar” to Minnesota.

He is yet to reveal what Mr Homan’s duties would look like, other than the fact the former police officer would report directly to him.