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Vice President JD Vance shared a post on X on Sunday, placing blame on Minnesota officials for the ongoing unrest in the state surrounding immigration enforcement.

He claimed that when he was in Minneapolis, he was told a story of federal agents being mobbed by protesters when they were dining at a restaurant.

"This is just a taste of what's happening in Minneapolis because state and local officials refuse to cooperate with immigration enforcement," Vance wrote.

The vice president referenced the second fatal shooting this month of an American citizen in Minneapolis at the hands of a federal agent. Alex Pretti, 37, an ICU nurse at a VA hospital, was fatally shot by a Border Patrol agent Saturday morning.

"They have created the chaos so they can have moments like yesterday, where someone tragically dies and politicians get to grandstand about the evils of enforcing the border," Vance said of state and local officials.

The National Basketball Players Association, the union for active NBA players, issued a statement on Sunday defending protesters’ rights to free speech in Minneapolis and expressing condolences to the families of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

"Following the news of yet another fatal shooting in Minneapolis, a city that has been on the forefront of the fight against injustices, NBA Players can no longer remain silent," the Players Association statement said. "Now more than ever, we must defend the right to freedom of speech and stand in solidarity with the people of Minnesota protesting and risking their lives to demand justice."

The group added, "We refuse to let the flames of division threaten the civil liberties that are meant to protect us all."

-ABC News' Benjamin Siegel

In an open letter published on Sunday, the chief executive officers of some of Minnesota's largest businesses are demanding "an immediate de-escalation of tensions” prompted by federal immigration activity in the state and the killing of Alex Pretti on Saturday.

Among those who signed the letter were the CEOs of UnitedHealth Group, 3M, Land O’ Lakes, Hormel, U.S. Bancorp, Target, Best Buy, General Mills, Cargill, Mayo Clinic and Xcel Energy. The letter was also signed by the CEOs of the Minnesota Vikings, the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Minnesota Wild.

"The business community in Minnesota prides itself in providing leadership and solving problems to ensure a strong and vibrant state. The recent challenges facing our state have created widespread disruption and tragic loss of life," the letter states.

Citing the fatal shooting of Pretti, the CEOs said, "We are calling for an immediate de-escalation of tensions and for state, local and federal officials to work together to find real solutions."

-ABC News' Soo Youn

A network of former Department of Justice officials released a statement on Sunday criticizing the department's handling of two fatal shootings in Minneapolis that have occurred at the hands of federal agents.

"The Justice Department has abdicated its role in seeking accountability for these fatal shootings by refusing to investigate allegations of unlawful, excessive force by federal agents in Minneapolis," Stacey Young, executive director and founder of the Justice Connection, said in a statement.

Young said that under any previous administration, the DOJ would have launched a civil rights investigation into the use of force in the killings of Alex Pretti on Saturday and of Renee Good on Jan. 7.

"Failures like these led to the departures of senior employees in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota, the Civil Rights Division, and the FBI -- adding to the loss of the institutional expertise necessary to guide the department in critical moments like these," Young said.

Young added that "a community can only trust law enforcement" when it knows agents will be held accountable for their actions.

"But instead of pursuing those investigations, the Justice Department has publicized spurious conclusions contradicted by evidence; perverted the term 'domestic terrorist' by applying it to victims and protesters; boxed out state and local law enforcement; and launched investigations into conduct by victims and surviving family members instead of the agents who fired the guns," Young said.

-ABC News' Pierre Thomas