Immigration agents shoot and kill another person in Minneapolis
A woman was already shot dead on January 7 by the same security force
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Saturday, according to the city's police chief, Brian O'Hara. This is the second such incident in the city, following the death of a man by ICE officers on January 7. a woman was shot As part of the mass raids against immigrants ordered by the Donald Trump administration, a 37-year-old white man was killed on Saturday. He apparently had a firearms permit and had no prior history of run-ins with law enforcement, according to the police official. The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees immigration enforcement, justified the killing by stating that the man was armed and posed a threat to the officers. The man was a resident of the city. A video posted on Facebook and verified by outlets such as NBC News shows the sequence of events. The footage shows half a dozen masked officers surrounding a man who struggles with them and tries to stay on the ground. One of the officers strikes him with the butt of a pistol, and suddenly another officer opens fire. The man immediately lies motionless on the ground, and all the officers stand back. The Department of Homeland Security has released a photo of a 9mm semiautomatic pistol, allegedly carried by the man who was killed. In a statement, it reported that the incident occurred during an operation "against an illegal immigrant wanted for assault," when an armed individual approached federal Border Patrol agents. "The agents attempted to disarm the suspect," but the man "violently resisted," the statement also asserts. "Fearing for his life and the lives of his colleagues, the agent fired several shots in self-defense," it concludes. The Department of Homeland Security justified the agents' use of riot control tactics because approximately 200 rioters were attempting to obstruct law enforcement. It also stated that the man shot was carrying two magazines and had no identification. Governor's Outrage
The governor of the US state of Minnesota, Tim Walz, demanded on Saturday that the raids against immigrants ordered by the US government be stopped immediately. "I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting perpetrated by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had enough. This is disgusting. The president must end this operation. Withdraw the thousands of violent and untrained agents from Minnesota now," he wrote on the social network X, clearly.
The large-scale raids in Minnesota were ordered by the Trump administration in early January, after a conservative YouTuber made a documentary denouncing the misappropriation of federal funds by daycare centers run by members of the Somali community in the state.
On January 7th, a woman was shot and killed by immigration agents.On that occasion, the Department of Homeland Security justified the woman's actions by claiming she was trying to run over officers participating in a mass raid against immigrants and accused her of "domestic terrorism." However, a video circulating on social media showed that the woman was driving at a low speed when an officer shot her, inflicting three fatal wounds. This sparked outrage from the mayor and hundreds of residents who took to the streets to protest.
Donald Trump's intimidation campaign against the immigrant populationIt's unstoppable. This Friday it was revealed that agents of the United States immigration police A five-year-old boy was arrested on Tuesday at the entrance to his home in the Minneapolis metropolitan area, as he was returning from kindergarten. Since then, the boy, Liam Conejo Ramos, has been detained at an immigration and customs enforcement center in Texas along with his father.
