Bruce Pearl rips Tim Walz, Democrats after Border Patrol-involved shooting in Minnesota

Former college basketball coach Bruce Pearl appears on OutKick's "Don't @ Me with Dan Dakich" to talk about the Border Patrol-involved shooting in Minnesota.

Former college basketball coach Bruce Pearl ripped Democrats on 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 he’d put some of the blame on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and the rest of the Democrats who raised the temperature while federal officials were enforcing U.S. immigration laws.

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Demonstrators hold signs during a protest in response to the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti in Minneapolis earlier in the day Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Caroline Brehman)

"It’s just terrible. It’s awful. I feel so bad for … You know, these deaths obviously did not have to happen," Pearl said. "Both sides gotta give a little bit in this situation because, right now, it’s extremely toxic. I sure do blame Gov. Walz for the way he’s handled it. Would you go back in time and watch how Minneapolis burned over George Floyd and would you connect the lawlessness? It doesn’t make what happened to George Floyd right. It doesn’t make what happened to these two other individuals that got killed right.

"But were they not called out onto the streets? And were they not encouraged and motivated by Democratic lawmakers to ‘stand up’ and ‘get your cellphones out’ and they’re looking at treating ICE and law enforcement like they’re Nazis. To equate Anne Frank and her death with any other death going on out there is just wrong. It’s fundamentally wrong. It’s our government. President Trump was elected to enforce