Protesters raging against ICE stormed a Minnesota hotel where they suspected federal agents had been staying amid destruction and unrest following the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti. 

The chaos unfolded outside of the Home Suites by Hilton Hotel in Minneapolis on Sunday night - one day after the 37-year-old ICU nurse was fatally shot by border patrol agents in the sanctuary city. 

Protestors bashed windows and spray-painted the hotel's facade in jaw-dropping videos from the heated demonstration. Others chanted and paced in front of the building.

Many of the mob wore masks as they descended on the scene at around 9 pm, banging on garbage bins and bells.

Someone vandalized the glass window at the Hilton's entrance, with bright red spray paint reading, 'ICE OUT OF MPLS.' One person pounding on a garbage pail held a sign that read: 'No justice, no peace.'  

Rioters tried to bust through the front door but were unsuccessful and continued their commotion in the street, according to The New York Post. 

The alarming scene continued for more than an hour without police intervening, according to Frontlines Turning Point USA (TPUSA), the on-the-ground news service for the conservative nonprofit.  

Authorities eventually stepped in to control the crowd and dispersed the far-left protesters using flares and tear gas.

Video from the scene showed at least two people involved being escorted into custody by federal agents. 

One federal agent trying to calm the situation appeared to be bleeding from his face, The New York Post reported. 

It is unclear if any ICE agents are actually staying at the hotel.  

The Hilton where Sunday night's protest occurred is located just minutes away from the campus of the University of Minnesota. 

The demonstration came just hours after President Donald Trump weighed in on Pretti's death - but appeared unwilling to back the officer involved.

'I don't like any shooting. I don't like it,' Trump told The Wall Street Journal.

'But I don't like it when somebody goes into a protest and he's got a very powerful, fully-loaded gun with two magazines loaded up with bullets also. That doesn't play good either.' 

Pretti died during an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis. Officers claimed that he approached them with a 9mm semiautomatic handgun.  

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem claimed that officers 'clearly feared for their lives' and fired to defend themselves from Pretti after he 'violently' resisted federal agents. 

Video appeared to show officers disarming Pretti before shots rang out.

Minneapolis police said he had no serious criminal history and was a lawful gun owner with a valid permit.

After Pretti was seemingly disarmed, the footage does not clearly show the origin of the first shot.

One gun expert has said he believes Pretti's Sig Sauer P320 went off in the hands of an agent, prompting another agent to open fire.

'I believe it's highly likely the first shot was a negligent discharge from the agent in the grey jacket after he removed the Sig P320 from Pretti's holster while exiting the scene,' Rob Dobar, a lawyer for the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, wrote on X.

Before Trump expressed his disapproval of the shooting, former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama condemned Pretti's death.

'Over the course of a lifetime, we face only a few moments where the decisions we make and the actions we take will shape our history for years to come. This is one of them,' Clinton wrote on X. 

'If we give our freedoms away after 250 years, we might never get them back.'

Obama wrote: 'The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.'

Trump said his administration will investigate Pretti's fatal shooting, as he signaled a willingness to withdraw immigration enforcement officials from Minneapolis.

'We’re looking, we’re reviewing everything and will come out with a determination,' Trump told the Journal. 'At some point we will leave.'

In the meantime, Trump has urged Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and 'EVERY Democrat Governor and Mayor in the US to formally cooperate with the Trump Administration to enforce our Nation's Laws, rather than resist and stoke the flames of Division, Chaos and Violence.'

He continued his Sunday Truth Social post by ordering Walz and Frey to 'turn over all Criminal Illegal Aliens that are currently incarcerated at their State Prisons and Jails to federal authorities.'

Trump also announced that he is asking Congress to pass legislation ending sanctuary cities, which he argued are 'the root cause of all of these problems.'

'American cities should be Safe Sanctuaries for Law Abiding American Citizens ONLY, not illegal Alien Criminals who broke our Nation's Laws,' Trump wrote.

Trump then doubled down on his assertion that Somali immigrants in Minneapolis have been committing major fraud.

'Minnesota is a Criminal COVER UP of the massive Financial Fraud that has gone on!' he posted as Walz held a press conference.

The president had deployed thousands of federal immigration agents to heavily Democratic Minneapolis for weeks, after conservative media reported on the alleged fraud.

Minneapolis has one of the country's highest concentrations of Somali immigrants.

Walz accused the Trump administration of launching a smear campaign against Pretti, whom federal officials have said wanted to 'massacre law enforcement.'

'You know what you saw,' Walz said, before going on to accuse Trump, Vice President JD Vance and other top officials of 'sullying his name within minutes of this event happening'.

'This is an inflection point, America. If we cannot all agree that the smearing of an American citizen and besmirching everything they stood for and asking us not to believe what we saw, I don't know what else to tell you,' Walz said.

Walz then addressed the American public directly, urging them to denounce Trump's immigration crackdown and the killing of civilians by federal officers.

'What side do you want to be on?' Walz asked. 'The side of an all powerful federal government that can kill, injure, menace and kidnap its citizens off the streets or on the side of a nurse at the VA who died bearing witness to such government.'

Walz also suggested that Trump was trying to 'make an example of Minnesota' but said he was proud of his state for standing up to the administration.

'We believe in law and order in this state. In this state, we believe in peace, and we believe that Donald Trump needs to pull these 3,000 untrained agents out of Minnesota before they kill another person.'

The governor then shared that he has spoken with Pretti's heartbroken family and alleged that they want Americans to keep fighting for him.

'The heartache in the hours after your son is murdered in front of the world is one thing, but what stood out to me was a parent's desire and their passion to make sure that the story of Alex was told,' Walz said of Pretti's parents.

He claimed the nurse's father Michael told him: 'Don't let them forget Alex's story.'

The Daily Mail has reached out to ICE for comment.