CNN anchor Jake Tapper stunned one of his colleagues on Wednesday while discussing the findings of a new investigation into the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
Tapper investigated the Trump administration's Operation Metro Surge, which sent about 3,000 immigration agents into Minneapolis in January 2026, and the corresponding departure of Trump administration prosecutors assigned to the case. He said the investigation found that the prosecutors had already raised alarms about the operation and former Customs and Border Protection commander Greg Bovino's actions when Good and Pretti were killed.
Prosecutors also expressed consternation that the statements of ICE agents were found to be false repeatedly, according to the investigation.
"They get away with a lot," Tapper said about the Trump prosecutor's concerns over CBP and Bovino going to Minneapolis. "Them coming here is a bad idea. Bovino coming here is a bad idea. And the quote was, 'Someone's going to get killed.' That was in early January."
"January 7th, Renee Good is killed, and then Bovino calls mad about the lack of prosecutions against protesters, and says a whole bunch of stuff about shutting down the city, and says some anti-semitic things," Tapper continued. " ... And then after that call, one of the prosecutors says, 'They're going to kill someone else.' And then a few days later came the Alex Pretti killing."
CNN's Brianna Keilar seemed appalled by the report during "CNN News Central."
"That is stunning," she said. "When a lot of people say that who are critical of what happened in Minneapolis, they would be dismissed as hyperbolic."
Tapper added that prosecutors thought Bovino and CBP were intentionally trying to incite a riot to go after protesters.
"Just keep in mind, we're not talking about a bunch of hippie communists, right? These are prosecutors. These are people who joined the government, want to lock away bad guys, and keep communities safe," Tapper said. "And the accusations, the impression they got was ... these tactics were overaggressive and actually counterproductive. They were not going after the worst of the worst. They were going after protesters, and they were trying to start a riot."
