Video from the scene, along with statements from witnesses and local officials, disputes the accounts of federal officials regarding the circumstances that led up to the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman.
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a 37-year-old woman Wednesday morning during an operation in Minneapolis, Minnesota, local and federal officials have confirmed.
The shooting comes as the Trump administration has deployed about 2,000 federal immigration agents to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area as part of a crackdown it says is in response to a fraud scandal roiling the state over the alleged misuse of public funds and ongoing immigration crackdowns nationwide.Woman was shot amid protests over „targeted operations“ by ICE, feds say
The city of Minneapolis said in a news release that local police responded at about 9:30 a.m. local time to a south Minneapolis neighborhood and found that a woman in a vehicle had been shot in the head.
Minneapolis firefighters rushed the woman to Hennepin County Medical Center, where she died, the city said.
Tricia McLaughlin, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson, said in a statement provided to CBS News that the shooting occurred while ICE officers were conducting „targeted operations.“
McLaughlin described the woman who was killed as one of several „violent rioters“ who were „blocking“ ICE officers.
According to McLaughlin, the woman „weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them.“
An ICE officer, „fearing for his life“, then „fired defensive shots“, McLaughlin said.
In a news conference following the shooting, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem described the driver’s actions as an „act of domestic terrorism.“
Noem alleged the ICE officers had gotten stuck in snow and „were attempting to push out their vehicle“ when „a woman attacked them and those surrounding them and attempted to run them over and ram them with her vehicle.“
In a social media post on Truth Social also claiming that the shooting was done in self-defense, President Trump alleged that the woman „viciously ran over the ICE Officer“ before being shot.
