MINNEAPOLIS, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Officials in U.S. President Donald Trump's administration defended on Sunday the fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen by immigration agents in Minneapolis, even as video evidence contradicted their version of events and as tensions grew between local law enforcement and federal officers.

The fatal shooting of a Minneapolis protester by a federal immigration officer touched off a firestorm and prompted some fellow Republicans to question President Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration crackdown,

Narratives clashed over shooting death of Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti this weekend, with the Trump administration calling him a "domestic terrorist."

Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs’

People gathered outside a hotel in Minneapolis to protest the business allegedly renting rooms to federal agents.

Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy calls for full investigation after a Border Patrol agent shot and killed a man in Minneapolis during a DHS operation on Saturday.

President Donald Trump and his administration this week seemed to belatedly come to the realization that their Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Minneapolis are going poorly.

More than 60 CEOs of Minnesota-based companies called for an immediate “de-escalation of tensions” between state, local and federal authorities as the state reels from another fatal shooting of an American by immigration agents.