Governor readies national guard as Minneapolis mayor and others denounce immigration agent killing woman during raid
Woman in Minnesota fatally shot by ICE agent during raid, video shows
Democratic leaders across Minnesota are calling for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to leave Minneapolis and are urging residents to “remain calm” after a federal immigration officer shot and killed a 37-year-old woman in the city during an immigration enforcement operation on Wednesday.
“We’ve dreaded this moment since the early stages of this ICE presence in Minneapolis,” Jacob Frey, Minneapolis’s Democratic mayor, said at a news conference on Wednesday afternoon after the shooting. “They are not here to cause safety in this city. What they are doing is not to provide safety in America. What they are doing in causing chaos and distrust.”
At the news conference, Frey also rejected the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) account of the incident, in which they said that while ICE officers were conducting targeted operations, “rioters began blocking ICE officers and one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them”, which the DHS said prompted an ICE officer to fire “defensive shots”.
