Minneapolis surge ending, border czar Tom Homan says

Eight more assistant U.S. attorneys are in the process of leaving the U.S. attorney's office in Minnesota, multiple officials told ABC News on Tuesday.

The departures come as frustrations are mounting inside the office about the handling of the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, sources told ABC News.

A Justice Department spokesperson referred ABC News to a February 2025 memo from the attorney general, which says in part, "when Department of Justice attorneys, for example, refuse to advance good-faith arguments by declining to appear in court or sign briefs, it undermines the constitutional order and deprives the President of the benefit of his lawyers."

The move comes in addition to six U.S. attorneys, including Joe Thompson, the lead prosecutor in the Founding Our Futures fraud case, who departed the office last month, according to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

-ABC News' Luke Barr

A federal judge is dissolving the temporary restraining order that prohibited federal investigators from destroying any evidence related to Alex Pretti's fatal shooting, finding that attorneys representing the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) failed to prove that the administration was unlikely to preserve evidence.

"Though the record is not one-sided, the greater weight of the evidence shows Defendants are not likely to destroy or improperly alter evidence related to Mr. Pretti's shooting during the life of this case, and other relevant considerations do not on balance favor a continuing preservation order," Judge Eric C. Tostrud said.

Tostrud said that the BCA had raised "significant concerns" about how the on-scene investigation was conducted, but that the "concerns about past conduct do not hold substantial predictive value" about how DHS would conduct the investigation in the future.

The judge also acknowledged that the swift comments DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and other administration officials made about the shooting were "troubling" and cast doubt on the administration's "interest in learning the truth," but said BCA failed to prove that those comments indicated that evidence would be destroyed.

In response to the judge's decision, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty, whose office sought the TRO along with BCA, said they "expect [the federal government] to do what they have pledged to do: preserve evidence of this fatal shooting."

"Preservation was step one. Access is step two and those efforts are already well underway," she continued.

-ABC News' Armando Garcia

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced in a post on X Monday that body cameras would be deployed to every officer in the field in Minneapolis "effective immediately," and that the goal is to have agents across the country wearing body cameras.

"As funding is available, the body camera program will be expanded nationwide. We will rapidly acquire and deploy body cameras to DHS law enforcement across the country," Noem added.

The announcement comes amid backlash against the the Dept of Homeland Security's immigration operation in Minneapolis, after the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens involving federal agents within the span of a month.

President Donald Trump reacted to this announcement in the Oval Office, expressing his approval and noting the benefit of body cameras, though he made it clear that this was not his decision.

“Well, it wasn't my decision. I would have you know, I leave it to her. They generally tend to be good for law enforcement because people can't lie about what's happening. So, generally speaking, I think 80% good for law enforcement,” he said.

“If she wants to do the camera thing, that's okay with me,” Trump added.

Alex Pretti's official manner of death has been ruled a homicide by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner, a report shows.

The 37-year-old nurse's cause of death was "multiple gunshot wounds," according to the report.

The report recorded that Pretti was "shot by law enforcement officer(s)" and died in the emergency room at Hennepin Healthcare.

-ABC News' Brian Hartman and Jared Kofsky