Federal Agent Shoots Man in #Minneapolis, Prompting Tense #Protests

Tricia McLaughlin, a propagandist for #DHS, said in a statement that federal agents were trying to arrest a man from #Venezuela who was in the country illegally in a “targeted traffic stop” at around 6:50PM. She said that he fled from agents.

When the officer caught up to him, McLaughlin said he “began to resist & violently assault the officer.” She said 2 people came out of a nearby building &, along with the man being sought, attacked the officer with a snow shovel & a broom handle.

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McLaughlin said the officer feared for his life & fired shots, striking the man whom agents were seeking in the leg [not an equivalent #UseOfForce]. The agent & the man who was shot were in the hospital, she added, & the other 2 people she accused of attacking the agent were in custody.

The federal government’s narrative could not immediately be verified. City ofcls said the person who was shot had “apparent non-life-threatening injuries.” The agent’s condition was not immediately clear.

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Neighbors said they saw federal agents ordering people inside the house to come out with their hands up, & that several people, including #children, walked out.

Mayor Jacob Frey said after the #shooting that “there’s still a lot that we don’t know” but that “this is not sustainable.” He reiterated his call for #ICE to leave.

#Trump #law #Constitution #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #AbuseOfPower #MafiaState #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy #RESIST

…Several heavily armed #BorderPatrol agents arrived in a large, #military-style vehicle outside of the crime scene tape. Protesters swarmed the vehicle & yelled & threw snowballs at agents who had gotten out. The agents eventually retreated, & as they left, they fired at least 2 canisters of #gas that made a loud bang & made it difficult for some to #breathe.

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A few minutes later, at least 2 #ICE agents arrived in an unmarked SUV & sprayed #ChemicalAgents in the faces of #protesters who approached them, causing one protester to say that he could not see. At one point, a protester fired several fireworks toward retreating ICE agents & their cars.

#Trump #law #Constitution #CivilRights #RightToProtest #DueProcess #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #MafiaState #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #RESIST

#ChemicalAgents were used against #protesters, & 2 people were detained & later released. Protesters damaged an unmarked vehicle with police lights.

A #Minneapolis police officer who identified himself as a supervisor to several protesters told them he did not know exactly what happened. “It’s not like they’re talking to us,” he said, referring to the federal agents on scene.

#Trump #law #Constitution #CivilRights #RightToProtest #DueProcess #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #ICE #CBP #RESIST

…Some 3,000 federal #immigration agents have flooded the #Minneapolis area in recent weeks, angering residents & local officials. The #Trump admin has defended the deployment as necessary to cracking down on illegal immigration & rooting out fraud [sure, Jan].

Shortly before the latest #shooting was reported on Wednesday night, Gov #TimWalz of #Minnesota gave a speech that called on the Trump admin to “end this #occupation.”

#law #Constitution #CivilRights #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #ICE #CBP

DAG #ToddBlanche referred to a “Minnesota insurrection” in a social media post after the #shooting & accused Walz & Frey, both #Democrats, of making the situation worse.

Liish Kozlowski, a Democratic state representative, said that Minnesotans should be “enraged” by the report of another #ICE related shooting, adding that “we’ve been raising alarms that they are not here for public safety or for fraud or for the well-being of anybody, but to hunt & harm us.”

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I knew this was coming as soon as I read #ToddBlanche’s comments…

#Trump threatens to use the #InsurrectionAct in #Minneapolis

Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, allowing him to deploy #troops as #protests against #ICE continue.

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#Trump made the threat after another #shooting by a federal officer of a man in the leg in #Minneapolis on Wednesday after being attacked with a snow shovel & broom [NOT an equal #UseOfForce]. The incident further heightened the sense of fear & anger radiating across the city a week after an #immigration agent fatally shot #ReneeNicoleGood in the head.

#law #InsurrectionAct #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #Constitution #CivilRights #RightToProtest #ExcessiveForce #AbuseOfPower #ICE #CBP #RESIST

#Trump has repeatedly threatened to invoke the rarely used federal #law to deploy the #US #military or federalize the #NationalGuard for domestic law enforcement, over the objections of #state #governors.

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