An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday after a group of people began blocking agents during an immigration-related operation, the Department of Homeland Security said.
ICE agents were conducting targeted operations in the city when a woman, 37, allegedly “weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them,” Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey pushed back on DHS’s narrative in a press conference on Wednesday afternoon. “They are already trying to spin this as an act of self-defense,” Frey said, referring to ICE. “Having seen the video of myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is b—s—.”
Frey said after the shooting, the first priority of local law enforcement was to get the victim to the hospital, and the second was to get ICE off the scene because they were “making a difficult situation more problematic.” “What they are doing is causing chaos and distrust. They are ripping families apart, sowing chaos in the streets and, in this case, quite literally killing people,” he said. “This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying, getting killed.”