Dramatic video purportedly shows the moment an ICE agent opened fire and killed a 37-year-old woman who attempted to barrel her SUV into the officer’s path in Minneapolis Wednesday morning — as the mayor furiously demanded the agency “get the f–k out” of the city.
In the footage being widely circulated on social media from varying angles, ICE officers approach a plum-colored Honda Pilot and order the driver out of the vehicle after she blocked the path of their truck.
As one of the agents attempts to open the door, she quickly throws the car into reverse before trying to speed forward in the direction of another agent in her path.
An ICE agents opened fire on and killed a woman who the DHS says attempted to drive into his path. X/@maxnesterak
“One of the violent rioters weaponized her vehicle,” the DHS alleges. Scootercaster/FreedomNewsTV
That agent dodges the SUV, swings around the side and fires three shots before the car crashes into a white sedan parked nearby on the side of the street.
President Trump said in a statement that the driver caused the incident, which he said landed the agent in the hospital.
“The woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense,” he said in a post on Truth Social.
“It is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital.”
Video taken from another angle showing the incident from further away appears to show the SUV run into the officer who fired the deadly shots as he leaps out of the path.
Following the gunfire, a woman repeatedly screams “no! no! What the f–k? What the f–k did you do? You’re f–king criminals!”
Later in the footage, blood-spattered snow can be seen as the woman apparently filming approaches the crashed SUV — where someone is seen leaning over the driver’s side seat from outside the vehicle, apparently attempting to render aid to the morally wounded driver.
The deadly shooting comes amid the largest deployment of immigration agents — including some 2,000 officers across several agencies — since the start of President Trump’s second term.
A furious mob of protesters jammed the area around Portland Avenue and E. 34th Street where the shooting took place, which is less than a mile from where George Floyd died under the knee of former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin in 2020.
Chauvin was convicted of murdering Floyd in 2021 and is serving a 21-year prison sentence.
At a news conference following the shooting, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey accused the agent who fired the deadly shots as acting recklessly.
“They are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly: that is bulls—t. This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying,” he said, pledging a full investigation into the incident.
“To ICE: Get the f—k out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being here is to create some kind of safety and you are doing exactly the opposite.”
DHS assistant secretary for public affairs Tricia McLaughlin said the incident happened while ICE was conducting “targeted operations” when “violent rioters” began blocking the streets.
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“One of the violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them — an act of domestic terrorism,” she said in an X post.
“An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots. He used his training and saved his own life and that of his fellow officers.”
Embattled Minn. Gov. Tim Walz fired back “don’t believe this propaganda machine” and promised the state will conduct “a full, fair, and expeditious investigation to ensure accountability and justice.”
Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, who has long been a vocal opponent of immigration enforcement actions in the state, said “ICE must stop terrorizing our communities and leave our cities.”
The incident echoes a similar shooting in October in which US Border Patrol agents shot an armed woman in Chicago who had tried to run them over after they were “boxed in” by 10 other cars.
A federal judge dismissed charges against the woman — who survived — of using her vehicle “to assault, impede, and interfere with the work of federal agents in Chicago” the following month.