Minnesota officials dispute federal account of fatal ICE shooting

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An aerial view shows protesters clashing with police after a driver of a vehicle was shot amid an immigration enforcement surge, in Minneapolis, Minn., today in this screen grab taken from a video.

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A crashed vehicle with a bullet hole in the front windshield and blood on the seat sits at the scene of a fatal shooting of a woman by a federal immigration officer during an enforcement operation today.

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Members of the Border Patrol Tactical Unit shove a man to the ground as federal agents try to leave the scene of a fatal shooting of a woman by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis today.

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State and local officials demanded an end to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota after a federal officer shot and killed a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis today.

Details remained in dispute, with President Donald Trump saying on social media that the agents had acted in self-defense, while state and local officials described federal accounts of the shooting with terms like “propaganda” and “garbage.” More than 1,000 protesters were gathered at the site of the shooting oWednesday night for a vigil.

Federal officials defended the use of force, saying the woman had “weaponized her vehicle” before being shot. At a news conference, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the woman was “stalking” officers, and that the agent who killed her “used his training to save his life and those of his colleagues.”

Mayor Jacob Frey called the federal officials’ account “bullshit,” describing the shooting instead as “an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying, getting killed.” Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota posted on social media, “Don’t believe this propaganda machine.”

Connor Janeksela, 30, who lives on the street where the shooting took place, described what he saw: “One of the ICE agents tried to rip her door open, and another one got in front of the vehicle and then shouted, ‘Stop!’ before firing three times within a second of saying, ‘Stop.’”

In his own news conference, the governor said the shooting was predictable. “We have been warning for weeks that the Trump administration’s dangerous, sensationalized operations are a threat to our public safety,” Walz said, adding that it cost a person her life Wednesday.

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>> What videos show: Three videos of the shooting posted on social media and verified by The New York Times show two federal agents trying to get a woman to exit a vehicle that is partially blocking a street. The driver reverses, then pulls forward and begins to turn. A third agent pulls out a gun and fires a shot, then continues firing as the vehicle moves past him.

>> Victim identified: The woman who was killed by federal immigration agents was identified as Renee Nicole Good by two officials in Minnesota with knowledge of the investigation who were not authorized to share details. The Minneapolis police chief, Brian O’Hara, said in an earlier news conference that there was “nothing to indicate that this woman was the target of any law enforcement investigation.”

>> Calls for calm: Walz asked for people to protest peacefully. Earlier Wednesday, in the hours after the shooting, people at the shooting scene chanted anti-ICE slogans and threw snowballs at the police. Walz said the state’s National Guard troops were prepared to deploy if protests got out of hand. The shooting was about a mile from where George Floyd was killed by the police in 2020.

>> Other shootings: In the last four months alone, immigration officers have fired on at least nine people in five states and Washington, D.C. All of the individuals targeted in those shootings were, like the woman killed on Wednesday, fired on while in their vehicles.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

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