When word first spread that federal immigration agents had shot and killed Minnesotan Alex Pretti on Saturday in Minneapolis, a group of Hispanic evangelical pastors was meeting in a church basement nearby.
Minneapolis police chief Brian O’Hara was supposed to be there to talk with the pastors about security protocols at their churches, but his plans quickly changed. He needed to go to the scene of the shooting.
“They’re out there now trying to maintain order from the disorder the federal government has caused,” Dios Habla Hoy pastor Sergio Amezcua, whose church was hosting the meeting, said to the other pastors. Amezcua, once a Trump supporter, now says Latino supporters feel “betrayed.”
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