Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
The day after federal agents shot and killed a protester during immigration operations in Minneapolis, the University of Minnesota released a statement from the president, Rebecca Cunningham, and other campus leaders. In it, they expressed grief over the death of Alex Pretti, a 2011 graduate of the university, and urged calm during a “complex and challenging moment.”The deaths of Pretti and another protester, Renee Good, and weeks of tension over immigration raids in the Twin Cities are a case study of how institutions are handling close-to-home political events in an era of institutional neutrality. Read more: chronicle.com/minn
The day after federal agents shot and killed a protester during immigration operations in Minneapolis, the University of Minnesota released a statement from the president, Rebecca Cunningham, and other campus leaders. In it, they expressed grief over the death of Alex Pretti, a 2011 graduate of the university, and urged calm during a “complex and challenging moment.”The deaths of Pretti and another protester, Renee Good, and weeks of tension over immigration raids in the Twin Cities are a case study of how institutions are handling close-to-home political events in an era of institutional neutrality. Read more: chronicle.com/minn
