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\nPeople gather near the scene of a suspected shooting by an ICE agent<\/p>\n
An officer in Minneapolis has shot dead a woman who US officials accused of trying to ram federal immigration agents with her vehicle, a claim forcefully rejected by the city’s outspoken mayor.<\/p>\n
But the mayor of the city, Jacob Frey, called the federal government’s claim that agents were acting in self-defense “bullsh*t” and called on US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers conducting raids to get out of Minneapolis.<\/p>\n
A video of the incident, which has not been verified by AFP, shows a Honda SUV apparently blocking unmarked law enforcement vehicles as they attempt to drive down a snow-covered street.<\/p>\n
The driver, who the mayor said was a 37-year-old woman, attempted to drive off as officers walked over and tried to open the door, with one agent firing three times with a handgun as the vehicle pulled away from him.<\/p>\n
The incident happened during protest action against an apparent immigration enforcement activity in the south of the city in Minnesota, local media reported.<\/p>\n
“Attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them – an act of domestic terrorism,” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which runs ICE, said on X.<\/p>\n
“An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots.<\/p>\n
“The alleged perpetrator was hit and is deceased. The ICE officers who were hurt are expected to make full recoveries.”<\/p>\n
Minneapolis Mayor Frey said “we’ve dreaded this moment since the early stages of this ICE presence in Minneapolis.”<\/p>\n
DHS chief Kristi Noem told reporters in Texas that ICE officers “were attempting to push out their vehicle, and a woman attacked them and those surrounding them and attempted to run them over and ram them with her vehicle.”<\/p>\n
\nPeople gather near the scene of a suspected shooting by an ICE agent<\/p>\n
Anti-ICE protests<\/p>\n
There have been passionate protests in some cities against the immigration enforcement operations of the Trump administration, which has vowed to arrest and deport undocumented migrants.<\/p>\n
The shooting reportedly happened at 34th Street and Portland Avenue, Minneapolis.<\/p>\n
“This is the direct consequence of constant attacks and demonisation of our officers by sanctuary politicians who fuel and encourage rampant assaults on our law enforcement who are facing 1,300% increase in assaults against them and an 8,000% increase in death threats,” the DHS added in its post.<\/p>\n
Nearby, ICE officers were seen pepper spraying and shoving protesters during immigration enforcement operations in South Minneapolis, footage broadcast by local CBS affiliate WCCO showed.<\/p>\n
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\nA journalist at the scene being treated after being pepper sprayed<\/p>\n
Dozens of protesters and bystanders were seen on the scene after the incident.<\/p>\n
“There’s no way whatever this person did that they deserved to be killed for it,” one bystander said.<\/p>\n
Mr Trump has made preventing unlawful immigration and expelling undocumented migrants top priorities during his second term, and has tightened conditions for entering the United States and obtaining visas.<\/p>\n
ICE – which critics accuse of transforming into a paramilitary force – has been tasked with deporting an unprecedented number of undocumented migrants during Mr Trump’s second term.<\/p>\n
Minnesota governor Tim Walz wrote on X that “My public safety team is working to gather information on an ICE related shooting this morning.”<\/p>\n
“We will share information as we learn more,” he said.<\/p>\n
“In the meantime, I ask folks to remain calm.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An officer in Minneapolis has shot dead a woman who US officials accused of trying to ram federal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-232919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}