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Jacob FreyThe mayor of Minneapolis just spoke at an ongoing press conference in the city.
Afterwards Renee Good When he was shot and killed by ICE, he told the agency to “get the hell out” of the city.
Moments earlier, he appealed to residents at this conference: “Stand up for Minneapolis. Stand up for America. Accept that your children will ask which side you are on. Your grandchildren will ask what you did to prevent this from happening again… What did you do to protect your nation?”
He added: “This is not America’s issue. This is not a partisan issue. This is an American issue. This administration and everyone involved in this operation should be thinking. They should be thinking right now and asking: What exactly are you accomplishing?”
Minneapolis officials call for calm, tell federal authorities to leave
Minneapolis police Chief Brian O’Hara opened a news conference by acknowledging that people were angry about the latest fatal shooting of a man in the city by federal law enforcement.
He called on federal personnel in the city to behave with discipline and humanity.
He later said the people who gathered to protest the shooting in south Minneapolis were participating in an “illegal assembly.”
“There’s a lot of anger and questions about what happened,” O’Hara said.
And he called for calm, begging the people not to harm the city.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is speaking now and we will bring you his remarks as soon as possible. He calls on Donald Trump to “end this operation” and “take immediate action to eliminate these federal agents.”
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At 9:05 a.m. local time, “an individual approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun” in Minneapolis while DHS law enforcement officers were conducting a targeted operation in Minneapolis against an individual they said was in the country illegally and “wanted for violent assault,” Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement sent to the Guardian.
McLaughlin said that “officers attempted to disarm the suspect, but the armed suspect resisted violently” and that “more details regarding the gunfight will be forthcoming.”
“Fearing for his own life and safety and that of other officers, an agent opened fire in defense,” he said, adding: “Paramedics at the scene immediately provided medical aid to the suspect, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.”
He added that the man also “had two magazines and no ID.”
DHS says man shot to death died at scene
The Department of Homeland Security, the parent agency of ICE and Border Patrol, said the man shot and killed by federal immigration enforcement early this morning was pronounced dead at the scene.
The federal agency said an agent fired “defensive shots.” He now calls the protesters “rioters” and says there were about 200 people at the scene in south Minneapolis trying to “obstruct and attack law enforcement.”
governor of illinois J.B. Pritzker He called for a bipartisan response from U.S. state governors to this shooting.
Moments earlier, he had posted on
He later posted: “Masked federal agents in Minnesota just shot and killed another person. We must put an end to Trump’s ICE. Now. Stop the funding, stop the invasions, stop the murders.”
Mary MoriartyThe attorney general of Hennepin County, where Minneapolis is located, released a statement saying his team was working with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), the state law enforcement agency, to coordinate the response to this shooting.
“The scene must be secured by local law enforcement to collect and preserve evidence,” Moriarty said. “We expect the federal government to allow BCA to process the scene.”
Following the murder of Renee Good, the FBI first cooperated with Minnesota law enforcement, then abruptly shut them out and said it would be a federal-only investigation. This angered state and county officials.
Following the shooting, an angry crowd gathered and shouted obscenities at the federal officers, calling them “cowards” and telling them to go home.
A police officer responded sarcastically as they walked away, telling them: “Boo hoo.” Elsewhere, agents pushed a screaming protester into a car, the Associated Press reported.
The intersection where the clash took place has been closed and border patrol officers are at the scene with batons.
Tear gas was fired and the crackling of munitions such as flash grenades used for crowd control can be heard near the location of this shooting in south Minneapolis.
Clouds of tear gas float above the street as protesters do not leave the scene.
A US government source with direct knowledge of the rapidly developing situation in Minneapolis confirmed to the Guardian reports that the man shot by federal immigration officers this morning was armed.
The source, who cannot be named because he is not authorized to provide details at this time, provided an image of a handgun next to a loaded magazine, linked to the man the Department of Homeland Security has named as a suspect.
“The suspect had a firearm with two magazines,” the source said. “The situation is evolving. We will have more information…as soon as possible.”
The Guardian has not yet been able to independently verify this information.
Man shot by federal police officers in Minneapolis dies
A 51-year-old man who was shot by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis has died, according to hospital records obtained by The Associated Press.
CNN also reported that the man shot during federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis died this morning. The Minnesota Star Tribune also reported that the man was killed.
Minnesotans have been protesting the White House’s decision to flood the relatively small, liberal midwestern city of Minneapolis with federal immigration enforcement personnel in recent weeks.
These demonstrations have become a daily fixture at a much greater volume since January 7, when an ICE officer shot resident (and US citizen) Renee Good rather than move out of the way of her car as it drove off.
At the time, there were fears that things would get out of control in the city if the protests turned into riots or mass lawbreaking.
But in fact the demonstrations were violent but largely under control. Federal officers and agents, from ICE officers to border patrol, have sparked outrage for aggressive and sometimes violent tactics against people they target for immigration enforcement, as well as against protesters and mere bystanders or passersby.
Governor Tim Walz “Minnesota meets fear and division with kindness and generosity,” he said.
Maanvi Singh, The Guardian’s immigration correspondent, said that based on her own experience, she was forced to agree with the descriptions of the city being “under siege”.
Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz called Donald Trump He moved to end his administration’s aggressive federal immigration enforcement operations in the state. These operations began several weeks ago and have caused chaos, injuries and death.
“I just spoke with the White House this morning following another horrific attack by federal agents. It’s sickening,” Walz wrote on social media platform X.
He continued: “The President must end this operation. Thousands of violent, untrained police officers must be removed from Minnesota. Now.”
Minneapolis authorities are urgently investigating multiple reports that federal authorities shot a man.
shooting in Minneapolis
Authorities Minneapolis We received reports of another shooting in the city involving federal law enforcement officers during the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants.
Shooting occurs in less than three weeks Renee Good He was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer while trying to escape a shootout with police officers in Minnesota. The murder sparked protests across the country, and there have been continuous protests in Minneapolis ever since.
city officials in question It said in a statement Saturday morning that the “shooting involving federal law enforcement” occurred in the area of West 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue South and that it was “working to confirm additional details.”
“We ask the public to remain calm and avoid the immediate area,” the statement said.
Governor Tim Walz He called for an immediate end to the Trump administration’s enforcement operations against immigrants in the state.
Confirmed details are scarce at the moment so keep an eye on the Guardian’s live blog and we’ll keep you updated as it happens.
