A federal officer shot and killed a Minneapolis motorist when she allegedly tried to run over law enforcement officers during an immigration crackdown in the city, authorities said Wednesday.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot the woman in her vehicle in a residential neighborhood in Minneapolis, Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.
The shooting marks a dramatic escalation of the latest in a series of immigration enforcement operations in major American cities under the Trump administration. It’s at least the fifth person killed in a handful of states since 2024.
The twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul have been on edge since DHS announced Tuesday that it had launched the operation, with 2,000 agents and officers expected to participate in the crackdown tied in part to allegations of fraud involving Somali residents.
A large throng of protesters gathered at the scene after the shooting, where they vented their anger at the local and federal officers who were there, including Gregory Bovino, a senior U.S. Customs and Border Patrol official who has been the face of crackdowns in Los Angeles, Chicago and elsewhere.
In a scene that hearkened back to the Los Angeles and Chicago crackdowns, bystanders heckled the officers and blew whistles that have become ubiquitous during the operations.
“Shame! Shame! Shame!” and “ICE out of Minnesota!” they loudly chanted from behind the police tape.
After the shooting, Mayor Jacob Frey said immigration agents were “causing chaos in our city.”
“We are demanding ICE leave the city and state immediately. We stand rock solid with our immigrant and refugee communities,” Frey said on social media.
The area where the shooting occurred is a modest neighborhood south of downtown Minneapolis, just a few blocks from some of the oldest immigrant markets in the area and a mile (1.6 kilometers) from where George Floyd was killed by police in 2020.
“We’ve been trying to live life as fully as possible in light of the fear and anxiety that we feel,” said the Rev. Hierald Osorto, pastor at St. Paul’s-San Pablo Lutheran Church, which has a predominantly Latino congregation in the area.
The Immigration Defense Network, a coalition of groups serving immigrants in Minnesota, held a training session Tuesday night for about 100 people who are willing to hit the streets to monitor the federal enforcement.
“I feel like I’m an ordinary person, and I have the ability do something so I need to do it,” Mary Moran told KMSP-TV.
(AP)
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It wasn’t Jews of BP or Williamsburg?? Monroe? Monsey? Oh! So how can this be newsworthy: it wasn’t Jews!
Good riddance.
OMG same town as George Floyd…! Dems boutta make another George Floyd outta her? Seems like we have an anti white season ahead…
(AP) is the enemy of the people!
The video evidence is quite clear. The person was not driving at ICE agents she was driving away from them. It is sickening and grotesque to see how YWN distorts reality and covers for MAGA hashchasa.
Did you watch the video? She was driving AWAY from the officers, and they shot her in the head.
A dead terrorist is an excellent outcome.
Wondering which video @crazykanoiy & @zaltzvasser is talking about.
She clearly hit an ICE agent with her car in 2 videos from 2 angles that I saw.
She might have been trying to get away but she definitely hit an agent in the process.
I don’t think she should have been killed but she definitely asked for trouble by hitting a law enforcement officer with her car.
Put nicely, it was very reckless of her.
If she would have survived, the only claim on her end that would stand up in court would be to claim insanity.
Police are armed for a reason and if you want to stay safe stay home. There is no mercy for someone trying to attack the police doing their job.
Crazy and Zaltz, you are both lying. She drove directly AT the agent, and actually hit him, and then he shot her.
From another site:
“The videos show a Maroon Honda Pilot stopped perpendicularly in front of an ICE vehicle as agents attempted to drive south on Portland Ave. Several agents got out of vehicles and began approaching the Honda. One agent can be heard ordering the driver out while he attempted to open the driver door. Another agent can be seen approaching the front of the Honda.
“The Honda’s driver, later determined to be a 37-year-old woman, then put the Honda in reverse for a few feet before rapidly driving forward into the agent approaching from the front. The front tires can be seen spinning as she accelerated toward the agent. The agent can be seen bracing himself against the driver’s side front end of the Honda as it came forward. The agent then appeared to fire multiple shots into the car as it drove into him, and as he successfully pushed himself to his right to avoid being run over. The Honda sped south a short distance before crashing into a utility pole and another car. The 37-year-old driver was reportedly struck in the head and has died.”
The videos suggest she was illegally parked, was driving away in response to police direction and skidded on the snow, whereupon the police killed her. The video does not show an officer standing in front of her car, not have there been reports of any injured policemen (which there should be if she did try to run over someone blocking her car).
akuperma, the video clearly shows the agent standing in front of the car. She accelerated toward him and hit him. It doesn’t even matter whether she did it on purpose, though that’s almost certain; even if she did it by accident, he was not a mind reader, and wasn’t to know that.
And yes, it WAS reported that the agent went to the hospital for his injury.