Silicon Valley sounds the alarm on deadly Minneapolis shooting. ‘And it’s only a matter of time before they show up in force here in the Bay Area’

The tech community is speaking out after federal agents carrying out President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Saturday.

It marked the third shooting by a federal agent in the city this month and the second deadly one. Meanwhile, similar shootings in other parts of the country have occurred.

The death of 37-year-old Alex Pretti, who worked as a nurse at Veterans Administration hospital in Minnesota, appeared to have been a tipping point in the backlash against the Trump administration’s immigration and deportation policy.

While many in the tech sector initially welcomed Trump’s embrace of deregulation and cryptocurrencies or backed off their traditional Democratic stance, Saturday’s killing at the hands of Border Patrol officers set off a wave of criticism.

“Wondering how the eager tech enablers of this regime, including some of my former VC friends and partners, are rationalizing this atrocity,” said John O’Farrell, general partner at venture capital firm a16z, on X. “Just the latest in a year of horrors. Is all the crypto and AI money in the world really worth this?”

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