Topline
A federal agent shot and injured a man while trying to make an arrest during an immigration operation in Minneapolis on Wednesday, in an incident that comes amidst protests in the city just a week after an immigration agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good.
Key Facts
In an X post, the Department of Homeland Security claimed the man was an undocumented Venezuelan migrant, and an agent fired a “defensive shot” that struck the person in the leg.
The DHS said the incident occurred during a “targeted traffic stop” and alleged that the person attempted to evade arrest by first fleeing the scene in his car and then on foot.
The agency added that when the agent caught up with the man, he “began to resist and violently assault the officer,” and two people from a nearby building attacked the officer with a “shovel or broom stick.”
As news of the shooting spread, more than 200 protestors gathered near the scene, prompting Federal agents to deploy “chemical irritants,” the Minnesota Star Tribune reported.
According to the New York Times, some protestors yelled and threw snowballs at a group of “heavily armed Border Patrol agents” who arrived at the scene.
Chief Critic
Shortly before the shooting, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz delivered a video address on the large presence of federal agents in the state, and said: “Armed, masked, undertrained ICE agents are going door-to-door ordering people to point out where their neighbors of color live. They’re pulling over people indiscriminately, including US citizens, and demanding to see their papers…This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it’s a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government.” Walz then told the Trump administration to “end this occupation.”
This is a developing story.