Minneapolis surge ending, border czar Tom Homan says

Shortly before the start of a memorial to Renee Good and Alex Pretti Saturday, Good's partner released a new statement honoring the one month anniversary of her shooting.

"Minneapolis has shown me that even in the middle of grief and fear, people still show up for each other. For that, I want to say thank you. Thank you to this incredible community for showing up again and again — organizing food and rides, making sure our kids get to school, checking in on neighbors, and standing together in the cold. I am so proud to call Minneapolis my home," Becca Good said in her statement.

Becca Good also expressed her condolences for Pretti.

"Renee and I chose kindness. We believed that every life deserves the same care, treatment, and dignity, no matter who they are or what they look like. That shouldn’t be radical. If it is, then I want Renee and our family to be known for how we practiced radical kindness every day," she said.

-ABC News' Henderson Hewes

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz took to social media again Thursday night calling the federal government to end Operation Metro Surge.

He linked to a local news piece that interviewed Minneapolis Director of Community Planning and Economic Development Erik Hansen who said the city is losing up to $20 million every week since the surge began.

"Operation Metro Surge is hurting small business and doing long-term damage to Minnesota's economy. It's time for this campaign of retribution to end," Walz said.

President Donald Trump said he was "not happy" with the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis during an exclusive sit-down interview with NBC News on Wednesday.

"I'm not happy with the two incidents," he said. "He was not an angel and she was not an angel. You know, you look at some tapes from back, but still, I'm not happy with what happened there. Nobody could be happy and ICE wasn't happy either."

Though Trump said Good and Pretti are not "angels," he said this does not justify what happened to them.

"No, it should have not happened. It was very sad to me, a very sad incident. I think they were both sad," Trump said.

“And you know who feels worse about it than anybody? The people of ICE," he added.

An ICE officer shot and killed Good while she was in her vehicle on Jan. 7. Pretti was killed in a shooting involving federal agents later that month. A Border Patrol agent and a Customs and Border Protection officer both discharged their weapons during the shooting, according to a DHS notification to Congress.

-ABC News' Nicholas Kerr, Emily Chang and Michelle Stoddart

Frey responded to Trump’s comments to NBC News that a “softer touch” is required for immigration enforcement in the city by saying that the change is welcome – but that the city has not changed its position that the immigration operation should be terminated.

"He's right that a softer touch has been required. The drawdown of both federal agents as well as the implementation of body cameras is obviously a step in the right direction. That being said, the continued presence of 2,000 federal agents in a city that only has 600 police officers is still not deescalation," Frey told CNN Wednesday evening.

The mayor repeated his calls for Operation Metro Surge to end.

Later, asked if he trusts White House Border Czar Tom Homan after meeting with Homan behind closed doors, Frey did not respond directly. He framed the meetings as “positive” while saying the city is still asking the White House to end the immigration operation.

Frey said that Alex Pretti and his family deserve an apology after being labeled by administration officials as an "assassin."

"Of course. I mean, this was one of my biggest frustrations from the very first moments following the killing of Renee Good," he said. "Before I went out there to do that very first press conference, I learned that head officials from the federal government were saying that the ICE agent was acting purely in self defense, and I don't know, an hour or two later, Renee Good herself was labeled as a domestic terrorist."

-ABC News' Oren Oppenheim