Officer ‘will lose finger’ after Minnesota rioter allegedly bites if off: DHS

MINNEAPOLIS (TNND) — A law enforcement officer’s finger was bitten off by an anti-ICE protester in Minneapolis over the weekend, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin reported on social media with gruesome photos.

“In Minneapolis, these rioters attacked our law enforcement officer and one of them bit off our HSI officer’s finger,” McLaughlin wrote on X. “He will lose his finger.”

Photos of two people in custody were shared, though it was unclear which person allegedly severed his finger.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said the suspect who allegedly bit the finger off of the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agent had been arrested and was in custody.

Rioters allegedly bite finger off HSI agent in Minneapolis (DHS Tricia McLaughlin)

“I have directed my federal prosecutors to file charges for this HEINOUS assault on our brave law enforcement officer,” Bondi said on social media.

Hours before McLaughlin’s post, 37-year-old Alex Pretti was the second person to be shot and killed during immigration enforcement in the city.

The Department of Homeland Security defended the agent’s actions, saying he fired “defensive shots” at Pretti, who was armed with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun.

Pretti’s family released a statement vehemently denying the accusations that he was “violently resisting” and accused the administration of telling “sickening lies.”

“Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs,” the statement read. “He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed.”

Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino said during a news conference on Saturday that the man’s death was a result of “an attack on law enforcement.”

He warned that “If you obstruct a law enforcement officer or assault a law enforcement officer, you are in violation of the law and will be arrested.”