Minneapolis has released a video showing the lead up to the shooting of a Venezuelan migrant in January that appears to contradict Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents accounts of the incident.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had initially said an officer shot a man in the leg after being attacked with a shovel and broom handle .
Federal charges against two migrants involved were then dropped in February after ICE officials said two officers appeared to have made false statements.
Footage from city-owned cameras, released on Monday, appears to contradict the original account on the length of the struggle and the DHS claim that an agent was struck with a snow shovel.
The newly released video is dark and grainy and shot from a distance. It shows only a struggle between two men - one who appears to toss aside a shovel before any contact is made - and ICE agents.
