Bellingcat.com
January 2026
Alex Pretti: Analysing Footage of Minneapolis CBP Shooting
The shooting comes just over two weeks after Renee Good was shot and killed by a federal agent in the same city
You don’t know he was unarmed. I don’t know he was unarmed.”... I do not know and nobody else knows either, which is why we’re doing an investigation”.
Five Shots in Five Minutes: Analysing One Federal Agent’s Use of Less-Lethal Launcher in Minneapolis
Some of the most intense protests took place in Minneapolis itself, with an agent using a less-lethal launcher in ways that experts told Bellingcat were “punitive” and “questionable at best”
Officers should only resort to less lethal weapons when faced by a serious physical violence posing a threat to themselves or others that is not possible to diffuse in any other way,
Because ground conditions, angles, and projectile behaviour are unpredictable, skip-firing reduces accuracy and control and increases the risk of unintended injury,
Analysing Footage of Minneapolis ICE Shooting
The videos were soon accompanied by competing analysis and narratives as to what had happened