{"id":48594,"date":"2026-01-25T20:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T20:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=48594"},"modified":"2026-01-25T20:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T20:00:28","slug":"minneapolis-shooting-barack-and-michelle-obama-call-out-trump-and-ice-for-assault-on-nations-core-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2026\/01\/25\/minneapolis-shooting-barack-and-michelle-obama-call-out-trump-and-ice-for-assault-on-nations-core-values\/","title":{"rendered":"Minneapolis shooting: Barack and Michelle Obama call out Trump and ICE for \u2018assault\u2019 on nation\u2019s core values"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8216;This has to stop&#8217;: Pretti shooting should be a &#8216;wake-up call to every American&#8217; that core values are under assault, say Obamas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former president and first lady&nbsp;<strong>Barack and Michelle Obama<\/strong>&nbsp;have called&nbsp;<strong>Alex Pretti<\/strong>\u2019s killing a \u201cheartbreaking tragedy\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<strong>It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault<\/strong>,\u201d the couple said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BarackObama\/status\/2015479691147149747?s=20\">a statement<\/a>, the Obamas went on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For weeks now, people across the country have been rightly outraged by the spectacle of masked ICE recruits and other federal agents acting with impunity and engaging in tactics that seem designed to intimidate, harass, provoke and endanger the residents of a major American city.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They add that\u00a0the\u00a0Trump administration\u201cseem eager to escalate the situation\u201d and have tried to explain the shootings of Pretti and Renee Good without \u201cany serious investigation &#8211; and that appear to be directly contradicted by video evidence\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This has to stop.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;This has to stop&#8217;: Pretti shooting should be a &#8216;wake-up call to every American&#8217; that core values are under assault, say Obamas Former president and first lady&nbsp;Barack and Michelle Obama&nbsp;have called&nbsp;Alex Pretti\u2019s killing a \u201cheartbreaking tragedy\u201d. \u201cIt should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":48595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[183,160,9331,2944,10925,10197,10454,852,12787,12857,6025,3805,9583,6262,13182,8033],"class_list":["post-48594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-assault","tag-barack-obama","tag-city","tag-first-lady","tag-ice","tag-investigation","tag-killing","tag-michelle-obama","tag-minneapolis","tag-minneapolis-shooting","tag-obama","tag-president","tag-recruits","tag-tragedy","tag-trump-administration","tag-video"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48596,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48594\/revisions\/48596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}