发布时间：2026年2月2日，美国东部时间下午4:55
作者：德文·科尔
一名明尼苏达州法官撤销了他上月发布的一项命令，该命令要求联邦调查人员保留移民官员枪杀亚历克斯·普雷蒂现场收集的证据。
美国联邦地区法官亚历克斯·托斯特鲁德（Alex Tostrud）表示，他正在解除普雷蒂枪击案当天发布的紧急命令，该命令禁止各联邦调查机构销毁或更改与该事件相关的任何证据。原因是他已从联邦官员那里获得保证，证据将得到妥善保管。
这位由总统唐纳德·特朗普任命的法官，在明尼苏达州刑事调查局（Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension）和亨内平县检察官办公室（Hennepin County Attorney’s Office）提出担忧后，应他们的要求下达了这一要求。他们在法庭上表示，若没有他的干预，他们对该事件的调查工作可能会受到破坏。
托斯特鲁德在一份18页的裁决中写道：“尽管记录并非单方面的，但大量证据表明，被告不太可能在本案审理期间销毁或不当更改与普雷蒂枪击事件相关的证据，其他相关考虑因素总体上也不支持继续下达保存令。”
法官还表示：“临时限制令的条款与被告方的证据保存政策并无实质性差异。继续下达保存令——以及随之而来的藐视法庭权力——不仅会叠加在被告方的保存政策上，还会对任何可能改变证据的调查措施产生影响。”
明尼苏达州刑事调查局告诉美国有线电视新闻网（CNN），与联邦调查人员就本案证据共享的谈判仍在进行中，他们“希望能达成协议”。然而，截至目前，联邦调查局（FBI）和国土安全调查局（Homeland Security Investigations）尚未与地方调查人员共享信息。
在裁决中，托斯特鲁德进一步指出，“检查和测试往往会使证据在测试后处于与测试前不同的状态”，而根据他现已撤销的命令，这种潜在的变化将迫使他在政府对枪击事件的调查中扮演他所说的“不当角色”。
他写道：“对于这些调查措施是否符合保存令的合理担忧，可能会促使被告寻求司法指导。这反过来会使法院介入被告的调查，而不仅仅是证据保存工作。”
此前，明尼苏达州刑事调查局曾被排除在另一起美国公民勒妮·古德（Renee Good）被联邦特工枪杀的早期联邦调查之外。托斯特鲁德审理的这起诉讼，代表了州调查人员为确保日后能获取证据进行自身检查而做出的急切努力。
一名联邦调查局官员在上个月的法庭文件中宣誓称，“证据由训练有素的证据收集人员包装”，他们穿戴了正确的个人防护装备，并使用防篡改证据胶带封装证据。联邦调查局收集的证据存放在联邦调查局明尼阿波利斯现场办公室的安全证据室，该房间设有受控访问机制。
美国有线电视新闻网的霍尔姆斯·莱布兰德（Holmes Lybrand）和凯特琳·波兰茨（Katelyn Polantz）对此报道有贡献。
Judge wipes away order requiring feds to preserve evidence gathered at Alex Pretti shooting scene
PUBLISHED Feb 2, 2026, 4:55 PM ET / By Devan Cole
An image of Alex Pretti is seen at a makeshift memorial in the area where Alex Pretti was shot dead by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis on January 26.
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A Minnesota judge has wiped away an order he issued last month that required federal investigators to preserve evidence gathered at the scene of Alex Pretti’s fatal shooting by immigration officers.
US District Judge Alex Tostrud said he was lifting the emergency order he issued the day of Pretti’s shooting that barred various federal investigatory offices from destroying or altering any evidence related to the incident because he had gotten assurances from federal officials that evidence would be properly maintained.
The judge, an appointee of President Donald Trump, had imposed the requirement at the behest of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office after they raised concerns in court that their own investigative efforts into the incident could be undermined absent his intervention.
“Though the record is not one-sided, the greater weight of the evidence shows Defendants are not likely to destroy or improperly alter evidence related to Mr. Pretti’s shooting during the life of this case, and other relevant considerations do not on balance favor a continuing preservation order,” Tostrud wrote in an 18-page decision.
“The temporary restraining order’s terms are not meaningfully different from defendants’ preservation policies,” the judge wrote. “An ongoing preservation order – and the contempt power that accompanies it – would overlay, not just defendants’ preservation polices, but any investigative measures that might alter evidence.”
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension told CNN that talks with federal investigators on sharing evidence in the case are ongoing, adding that they are “hopeful” an agreement can be reached. Thus far, however, the FBI and Homeland Security Invesdtigations have not shared information with local investigators.
In his ruling, Tostrud went on to say that “examination and testing often leave evidence in a different condition after testing than it was before” and that such potential changes occurring under his now-dissolved order would have forced him to play what he described as an improper role in the government’s investigation into the shooting.
“Legitimate concerns over whether those types of investigative measures comply with a preservation order might reasonably prompt defendants to seek judicial direction,” Tostrud wrote. “That, in turn, would inject the court into Defendants’ investigation, not just their evidence preservation.”
The BCA had been iced out of an earlier federal probe into a different fatal shooting of a US citizen, Renee Good, by federal agents in Minnesota and the lawsuit before Tostrud represented a frenzied effort by the state investigators to ensure they’d later have access to the evidence for their own inspection.
An FBI official swore in court papers last month that “evidence was packaged by trained evidence collectors” who wore the correct personal equipment and packaged the evidence in tamper-proof evidence tape. The evidence the FBI collected is in a secure evidence room with controlled access in the FBI’s Minneapolis Field Office.
CNN’s Holmes Lybrand and Katelyn Polantz contributed to this report.
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