India, Jan. 26 -- Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan has been named in unverified social media posts circulating amid protests in Minneapolis following the killing of ICU nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti during a federal immigration enforcement operation. Amid unrest in Minnesota, unverified X posts alleged that Flanagan was among various Minneapolis residents and activists coordinating against federal agents in a Signal chat.

The claims surfaced online after Pretti, a 37-year-old US citizen and nurse at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs hospital, was shot and killed by federal immigration officers on Saturday. His death came weeks after poet Renee Nicole Good, also 37, was shot dead by a federal immigration officer.

The two deaths ha...