JUST IN: Minneapolis live updates: Trump says Good, Pretti killings ‘should not have happened’

In an NBC News exclusive interview on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump addressed the shootings in Minneapolis, saying he was unhappy with what happened but stood firmly by law enforcement.

“He was not an angel, and she was not an angel,” Trump said, adding that “nobody can be happy” about the outcome. He said immigration authorities were also dissatisfied with the incident, but stressed his continued support for federal agents.

“I’m going to always be with our great people of law enforcement,” Trump said. “If we don’t back them, we don’t have a country.”

Alex Pretti, 37, was shot and killed on Jan. 24 in Minneapolis — the second shooting of a U.S. citizen last month by federal agents in the city.

The shooting of Pretti, an ICU nurse, ratcheted up tensions, as protesters clashed in the streets with law enforcement in the aftermath of the shooting.

The incident followed the fatal shooting of Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother, on Jan. 7.

happy” with the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis during an exclusive sit-down interview with NBC News on Wednesday.

“I’m not happy with the two incidents,” he said. “He was not an angel and she was not an angel. You know, you look at some tapes from back, but still, I’m not happy with what happened there. Nobody could be happy and ICE wasn’t happy either.”

Though Trump said Good and Pretti are not “angels,” he said this does not justify what happened to them.

“No, it should have not happened. It was very sad to me, a very sad incident. I think they were both sad,” Trump said.

An 11-year-old student from the same school district as Liam Conejo Ramos was been released from immigration custody in Texas on Wednesday.

Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano, a 4th grader at Highland Elementary, was the first student in the district to be taken into custody when she and her mother were detained by ICE on their way to school last month, according to Columbia Heights Public Schools.

President Donald Trump told NBC News that he learned his administration could use a “softer touch” on immigration.

Trump said he was the one who ordered the 700 federal agents to be drawn down from Minnesota, claiming the administration has seen more cooperation from local officials.

A group of Minnesota school districts and educators sued the Trump administration on Wednesday, alleging that a surge in immigration enforcement at or near school property has created a “pervasive climate of fear” that is driving down attendance and has rescinded long-standing policy that protected schools.

The school districts along with a teachers union have asked a federal judge to block the government from carrying out immigration enforcement operations at or near school property without a judicial warrant.

“In recent weeks, the administration has launched ‘Operation Metro Surge’ to accelerate its immigration enforcement efforts in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area, which has resulted in federal agents becoming an