After repeated clashes and a fatal shooting, the injunction bars federal \u200bagents from detaining or retaliating against peaceful protesters.<\/p>\n
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A \u200cfederal judge in Minnesota has ordered the United States\u2019 immigration agents \u200ddeployed \u200dto the state to curb some of the tactics they have used against observers and protesters<\/a> of their enforcement actions.<\/p>\n Tensions over the deployment have mounted in Minnesota since an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shot a 37-year-old mother of three, Renee Nicole Good<\/a>, behind the wheel of her car earlier this month.<\/p>\n Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list<\/p>\n Good was taking part in one of numerous neighborhood patrols organised by local activists to track and monitor ICE activities.<\/p>\n On Friday, US District Judge Kate Menendez\u2019s court injunction barred federal \u200bagents from retaliating against individuals engaged in peaceful, unobstructive protest \u200dactivity.<\/p>\n Officers were explicitly prohibited from arresting or detaining people protesting peacefully or engaged in orderly observations, if there was no reasonable suspicion that they had committed a crime \u200dor were \u2060interfering with law enforcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n The ruling also bans federal agents from using pepper spray, tear gas or other crowd-control munitions against peaceful demonstrators or bystanders observing and recording the immigration enforcement operations.<\/p>\n The US \u200cDepartment of Homeland Security (DHS) was given 72 hours to bring its operation in Minneapolis into compliance.<\/p>\n The court ruling hands a victory to activists in Minneapolis, the state\u2019s most populous \u2060city, two weeks after the Trump administration announced the deployment of 2,000 immigration agents to \u200bthe area.<\/p>\n Their numbers have since grown to nearly 3,000, dwarfing the ranks of the local police. The DHS calls it the largest operation of its kind in the country\u2019s history.<\/p>\n Crowds of protesters across Minneapolis have clashed with the immigration officers, opposing their efforts to target undocumented migrants, with some officers responding with violence.<\/p>\n