FBI Searches Fulton County Elections Office Amidst Rising Tensions in Minneapolis
Federal agents executed a search warrant Wednesday at an elections office in Fulton County, Georgia, seeking ballots related to the 2020 presidential election, according to CBS News sources. The search occurred as tensions escalated in Minneapolis following the recent shooting of Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse, by federal agents.
Fulton County confirmed the FBI search at its election operations center, stating that agents "sought a number of records related to 2020 elections." A state senator present at the scene told reporters that the FBI was seeking hundreds of boxes of ballots. High-ranking Trump administration officials, including Deputy FBI Director Andrew Bailey and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, were observed outside the elections office on Wednesday. A planned news conference with federal officials was later canceled.
Meanwhile, in Minneapolis, the aftermath of Pretti's shooting continued to fuel protests and clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement. The incident, which occurred Saturday morning, marked the second shooting of a U.S. citizen by federal agents in the city this month, ABC News reported. On January 7, Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother, was fatally shot.
In other news, a federal judge in Minnesota temporarily barred the Trump administration from detaining refugees without green cards, following a legal challenge by the International Refugee Assistance Project and other organizations. U.S. District Judge John Tunheim wrote, "Refugees have a legal right to be in the United States, a right to work, a right to live peacefullyand importantly, a right not to be subjected to the terror of being arrested and detained without warrants or cause in their homes or on their way to religious services or to buy groceries."
Separately, in Brooklyn, New York, a driver was taken into custody after crashing a car into Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters on Wednesday night. According to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, officers "heard a commotion in the building's main entrance" and witnessed the driver repeatedly ramming the rear door of the building. The incident is being investigated as a possible hate crime.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent addressed his department's ongoing investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and the administration's new "Trump Accounts" in an interview with CBS News. The "Trump Accounts" allocate $1,000 from the government to be invested in an index fund for children born between January 1, 2025, and December 31, 2028.
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