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Minnesotans have been protesting against the White House’s decision to flood the relatively small, liberal midwestern city of Minneapolis with federal immigration enforcement personnel in recent weeks.
Those demonstrations have become a daily constant in much greater volume since an ICE officer shot dead resident (and US citizen) Renee Good on January 7 instead of stepping out of the way of her departing car.
At the time there were fears of a things slipping out of control in the city if protests turned into riots or mass law-breaking.
But in fact demonstrations have been fierce but very much in control. Federal officers and agents from ICE officers from Border Patrol have drawn outrage for aggressive and sometimes violent tactics against people they are targeting for immigration enforcement but also against protesters and mere bystanders or passers-by.
Governor Tim Walz said: “Minnesota is meeting fear and division with decency and generosity.”
The Guardian’s immigration reporter Maanvi Singh said from her experience she had to agree with descriptions of the city as feeling like it is “under siege”.
Minnesota’s governor Tim Walz has called for Donald Trump to end his administration’s aggressive federal immigration enforcement operations in the state the began a few weeks ago and has caused chaos, injury and death.
“I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. This is sickening,” Walz wrote on the X social media platform.
He continued: “The president must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.”
Minneapolis officials are urgently looking into the multiple reports that federal enforcement has shot a man.
Shooting in Minneapolis
Officials in Minneapolis have received reports of another shooting involving federal law enforcement officers in the city during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown there.
The shooting comes less than three weeks after Renee Good was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in the city in Minnesota while she tried driving away from a confrontation with officers. The killing sparked protests nationwide and constant protests in Minneapolis since.
City officials said on Saturday morning in a statement that the “shooting involving federal law enforcement” and occurred in the area of West 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue South – and that they are “working to confirm additional details”.
“We ask the public to remain calm and avoid the immediate area,” the statement added.
Governor Tim Walz called for an immediate end to the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations in the state.
Confirmed details are few at this time so stay with the Guardian live blog and we will bring you the developments as they happen.
