West Chicago teens document ICE enforcement in Minneapolis after agent-involved deaths
Jan 24, 2026·Location: Minneapolis, MN

Brothers Ben Luhmann, 17, and Sam Luhmann, 16, of West Chicago have been traveling to Minneapolis to document U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol operations, uploading footage to a public Google Drive folder for anyone to use. They arrived the day after federal agents fatally shot Renee Macklin Good on Jan. 7, and on Jan. 24 witnessed the aftermath of VA nurse Alex Pretti's shooting death by Border Patrol agents, which occurred as he was recording them and attempting to help a woman who had been shoved to the ground. Their footage has captured Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino throwing a tear gas canister into a crowd, agents slipping on ice, and an agent pepper spraying a man at close range while others held him to the ground. The brothers say enforcement actions in Minneapolis have been far more intense than what they previously documented in Chicago.
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