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A federal agent fatally shot a woman in a vehicle in Minnesota on Wednesday, authorities said, after authorities suspected the woman, who was driving, was trying to push law enforcement officers during an immigration raid in the city.
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 immigration enforcement operations in major American cities under the Trump administration.
The twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul have been on edge since DHS announced Tuesday it had launched the operation, with 2,000 agents and officers expected to take part in the police crackdown, linked in part to fraud allegations involving Somali residents.
A large crowd of protesters gathered at the scene after Wednesday's shooting, where they expressed 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 the crackdowns in Los Angeles, Chicago and elsewhere.
"Shame! Shame! Shame!" and "ICE out of Minnesota!" citizens chanted from behind police tape.
After the shooting, Mayor Jacob Frey said immigration agents were "causing chaos in the city."
"We are demanding that ICE leave the city and state immediately. We stand steadfastly 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 area's oldest immigrant markets and a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the spot where George Floyd was killed by police in 2020.
The Immigration Defense Network, a coalition of groups serving immigrants in Minnesota, held a training session Tuesday evening for about 100 people who are ready to take to the streets to monitor federal law enforcement.
"I feel like I'm an ordinary person and I have the ability to do something, so I should do it," Mary Moran told KMSP-TV.
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