{"id":408109,"date":"2026-01-15T05:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T05:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/408109\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T05:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T05:15:08","slug":"federal-officer-shoots-man-in-the-leg-in-minneapolis-after-alleged-attack-during-stop-dhs-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/408109\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal officer shoots man in the leg in Minneapolis after alleged attack during stop, DHS says"},"content":{"rendered":"

MINNEAPOLIS \u2014\u00a0A federal officer shot a man in the leg during an attempted traffic stop Wednesday night, the Department of Homeland Security said as a crowd of protesters gathered near the shooting site, about 12 miles from where an ICE officer fatally shot Renee Nicole Good<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n

The agency said the shooting happened just before 7 p.m. after law enforcement officials were attacked with a shovel or a broom as they tried to complete a targeted traffic stop. <\/p>\n

City officials in Minneapolis asked for calm and said the man was hospitalized with apparent non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe understand there is anger,\u201d the city said. \u201cWe ask the public to remain calm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Follow live coverage here. <\/a><\/p>\n

Tensions in the city have been running high since Good’s death and the federal government’s increased immigration enforcement. Just after the shooting, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz addressed residents in a planned speech, urging them to help create a record of the \u201catrocities\u201d against Minnesotans by recording immigration agents, and he called on President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to \u201cend this occupation.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a social media post, the city also asked federal immigration authorities to leave the city and state immediately.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe stand by our immigrant and refugee communities \u2014 know that you have our full support,\u201d the city said.<\/p>\n

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DHS said officers were attempting a traffic stop of a Venezuelan man, who they said is in the country illegally. The man left in a vehicle, which crashed into a parked car, and then fled on foot, the department said in a statement.<\/p>\n

As the officer pursued the man, he assaulted the officer, according to the statement.<\/p>\n

During the struggle, two people came out of an apartment and attacked the officer with a snow shovel and a broom handle, according to the statement.<\/p>\n

The man got loose and also began attacking the officer with a shovel or a broomstick, the department said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFearing for his life and safety as he was being ambushed by three individuals, the officer fired defensive shots to defend his life,\u201d the department said, adding that the man officers had been chasing was shot in the leg.<\/p>\n

DHS added that the man was shot in the leg and that he and the officer were in the hospital. The two other men are in custody, DHS said.<\/p>\n

After Wednesday’s shooting, a crowd gathered in the Hawthorne neighborhood and continued to grow in size and intensity. As protesters chanted, blew whistles and threw snowballs, agents deployed pepper spray. <\/p>\n

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot Good, 37, a mother of three and U.S. citizen, in the head last week. Federal officials say the officer shot Good in self-defense, while others have sharply rejected DHS\u2019 narrative. The confrontation is under investigation by the FBI. State and local officials have repeatedly said the FBI is blocking them from participating in the case.<\/p>\n

DHS this month sent more than 2,000 federal agents to the state<\/a>, or more than three times the number of officers in the Minneapolis Police Department.<\/p>\n

After Good\u2019s death, Noem announced that the federal government would deploy hundreds more agents to Minnesota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS \u2014\u00a0A federal officer shot a man in the leg during an attempted traffic stop Wednesday night, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-408109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}