Biden condemns ‘our own government targeting’ US citizens in Minneapolis

Ex-president avoids naming Trump but says Minnesotans have suffered enough at the hands of this administration'

Joe Biden has joined other former Democratic presidents in condemning the fatal shooting of the 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis, saying that it betrays our most basic values as Americans".

In a statement that alluded to the constitutional right to due process, Biden said: We are not a nation that guns down our citizens in the street. We are not a nation that allows our citizens to be brutalized for exercising their constitutional rights. We are not a nation that tramples the fourth amendment and tolerates our neighbors being terrorized."