A protestor holds a sign as federal agents stand guard as protestors gather outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Picture: Octavio Jones / AFP Federal officers armed with pepperball guns and tear gas jostled with a large crowd of protesters beside a government facility in Fort Snelling just outside Minneapolis. The noisy crowd chanted slogans attacking the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency as officers pushed against protesters, detaining several including one who struck an agent with a cardboard sign.
The victim of Wednesday’s shooting, identified as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, was shot in the head as she apparently tried to drive away from agents approaching her car, which they said was blocking their way. Footage of the incident shows a masked ICE agent attempt to open the woman’s car door before another masked agent, standing near the vehicle’s front bumper, fired three times into the Honda SUV. The vehicle then hurtled out of control and smashed into stationary vehicles, as horrified onlookers hurled abuse at the federal officers.
Her bloodied body is then seen slumped in the crashed vehicle. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said she leaves behind a wife and six-year-old child, for whom a fundraiser has received more than $600 000. President Donald Trump and senior officials quickly claimed Good was trying to kill the agents, an assertion Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called “bullshit.” “I want to see nobody get shot.
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I want to see nobody screaming and trying to run over policemen either,” Trump said in an interview with The New York Times. He earlier said that the shooting was self-defense. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) chief Kristi Noem called the incident “domestic terrorism” later saying she was “not opposed” to deploying more officers to Minneapolis “if necessary to keep people safe.”
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