A federal immigration officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis after she allegedly tried to drive her vehicle into law enforcement officers amid a large-scale immigration enforcement operation, authorities said Wednesday.
The shooting happened in a residential neighborhood south of downtown Minneapolis, just a few blocks from some of the oldest immigrant markets in the area and a mile (1.6 kilometers) from where George Floyd was killed by police in 2020.
Federal officials claimed the shooting was an act of self-defense but the city’s Mayor Jacob Frey described it as “reckless” and unnecessary.
The area where the shooting occurred is a modest neighborhood south of downtown Minneapolis, just a few blocks from some of the oldest immigrant markets in the area and a mile (1.6 kilometers) from where George Floyd was killed by police in 2020.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, during a visit to Texas, described the incident as an "act of domestic terrorism" carried out against ICE officers by a woman who "attempted to run them over and rammed them with her vehicle. An officer of ours acted quickly and defensively, shot, to protect himself and the people around him."
