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Former college basketball coach Bruce Pearl lashed out at Democrats Monday after a Border Patrol-involved shooting left one dead in Minnesota over the weekend.
Pearl appeared on OutKick’s “Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich” and said she had placed some of the blame on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and the rest of the Democrats who raised the temperature while federal officials enforced U.S. immigration laws.
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Protesters hold signs during a protest in response to the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, 37, in Minneapolis on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Caroline Brehman)
“It’s just terrible. It’s horrible. I feel so bad about… You know, these deaths obviously didn’t have to happen,” Pearl said. “Both sides have to give in a little bit in this situation because right now, it’s extremely toxic. I’m sure I blame Governor Walz for the way he handled it. Would you go back in time and see how Minneapolis burned George Floyd and connect the anarchy? It doesn’t make what happened to George Floyd right. It doesn’t make what happened to these other two individuals who were murdered right.
“But weren’t they called to take to the streets? And weren’t they encouraged and motivated by Democratic legislators to ‘stand up’ and ‘take out their cell phones’ and are trying to treat ICE and law enforcement like they’re Nazis? Equating Anne Frank and her death with every other death that’s going on is just wrong. It’s fundamentally wrong. It’s our government. President Trump was elected to enforce these immigration laws and they let in millions and billions of illegals. and it was terribly wrong.” unfortunate.”
Walz on Sunday compared federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota to the Holocaust and Anne Frank’s “The Diary of a Young Girl” following the shooting death of Alex J. Pretti in Minneapolis. Federal officials initially stated that Pretti was armed and resisted officers, while local accounts indicate that Pretti was disarmed before being fatally shot.
People participate in a demonstration against ICE on Sunday, January 25, 2026 in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jack Brook)
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Walz said some children in Minnesota now feel afraid or uncertain about going outside because of federal operations.
Pearl said lawmakers in Congress should start coming together to fix the immigration system in the United States.
“You’re an immigrant, I’m an immigrant. I’m all for legal immigration. I’m all for people who have been here, worked hard and assimilated; we have to fix our immigration problem. Once again, Congress get off its ass and do the right thing. Because they haven’t done the right thing, they haven’t fixed our laws regarding immigration, we’re in this situation right now. Because, politically, they don’t know what to do. How about just doing the right thing because Are you American?”
In general, Pearl said, the temperature needs to be lowered.
The incident in Minnesota sparked tons of reactions in the sports world. A game between the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Golden State Warriors was postponed and was played later Sunday.
A man, center, with a Minneapolis police officer grabs a protester at the door during a rowdy demonstration in response to federal immigration enforcement operations in the city on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)
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NBA fans protested US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) inside and outside the arena.
