US EditionMinneapolis ICE Shooting: Mayor Frey Says City Is Being Put in 'Impossible Situation'
The shooting followed an enforcement stop where the man allegedly assaulted the officer; DHS reported over 2,000 arrests in Minnesota since December amid rising tensions.
- Shortly before 7pm on Wednesday, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot a Venezuelan man in the leg during a targeted traffic stop in north Minneapolis.
- DHS says the subject fled the scene in his vehicle, crashed into a parked car, then ran on foot after the targeted traffic stop, and an officer was ambushed during a struggle, prompting defensive shots.
- As the struggle continued in front of a residence, ICE secured the scene while the officer and the man who was shot, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, are hospitalized; evidence is being processed by BCA and FBI.
- Protesters assembled near the scene and faced federal agents and police using tear gas, while Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said Wednesday the crackdown is not sustainable.
- The incident follows the deployment of hundreds more agents to the city and flared tensions since the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, while the Department of Homeland Security says it has made more than 2,000 arrests in the state since early December.
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Mayor Frey accuses ICE of ‘causing chaos’ in Minneapolis after illegal migrant who ambushed fed agent is shot
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey claimed ICE agents in the city were "causing chaos" after an illegal immigrant armed with a shovel "ambushed" an officer and was shot on Wednesday.
An official from the U.S. Immigration Department shot a man in the leg. The official had fired the "defensive" shot "to defend his life", according to the Homeland Security Department. The city authorities call on the population to remain calm.
A U.S. Federal Immigration Police officer (ICE) shot at a Venezuelan man on Wednesday in Minneapolis, and the municipal authorities said that the population would “stay calm” within a week after a woman of the same...
In an ICE operation in Minneapolis, a Venezuelan was injured on Wednesday, and the government blames the opposition.
In protests against ICE raids in Minneapolis, shots were fired again. A man was injured in the leg and had to go to the hospital.
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