Minneapolis was on edge yesterday following the fatal shooting of a woman by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer, with the governor calling for people to remain calm, and schools canceling classes and activities as a safety precaution.
State and local officials demanded that ICE leave the state after 37-year-old Renee Nicole Macklin Good was shot in the head.
US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said that agents would not be going anywhere.
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The US Department of Homeland Security has deployed more than 2,000 officers to the area in a large immigration enforcement operation.
Noem said that more than 1,500 people have been arrested.
Macklin Good’s killing on Wednesday morning in a residential neighborhood south of downtown was recorded on video by witnesses, and by the evening hundreds of people came out for a vigil to mourn her and urge the public to resist immigration enforcement.
“I would love for ICE to leave our city and for more community members to come to see it happens,” said Sander Kolodziej, a painter who attended the vigil to support the community.
The videos of the shooting show an officer approaching an SUV stopped across the middle of the road, demanding that the driver open the door and grabbing the handle.
The Honda Pilot begins to move and a different ICE officer standing in front of it pulls his weapon and fires at least two shots at close range, jumping back as the vehicle appears to hit him.
After the shooting the SUV speeds into two vehicles parked on a curb.
In another recording made afterward, a woman who identifies Macklin Good as her spouse is seen crying near the vehicle.
The woman, who is not identified, says the couple recently arrived in Minnesota and they had a child.
Noem called the incident an “act of domestic terrorism” against ICE officers, saying the driver “attempted to run them over and rammed them with her vehicle. An officer of ours acted quickly and defensively, shot, to protect himself and the people around him.”
US President Donald Trump made similar comments on social media and defended ICE’s work.
Noem said that the woman was part of a “mob of agitators” and that the officer followed his training.
She said the FBI would investigate.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called Noem’s version of events “garbage.”
“They are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense,” Frey said. “Having seen the video myself, I wanna tell everybody directly, that is bullshit.”
He also criticized the federal deployment and said the agents should leave.
A crowd of protesters gathered at the scene after the shooting to vent their anger at local and federal officers.
In a scene that hearkened back to crackdowns in Los Angeles and Chicago, people chanted “ICE out of Minnesota” and blew whistles that have become ubiquitous during the operations.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said he was prepared to deploy the state national guard if necessary.
He expressed outrage over the shooting, but called on people to keep protests peaceful.
“They want a show,” Walz said. “We can’t give it to them.”
There were calls on social media to prosecute the officer who shot Macklin Good.
Minnesota Department of Public Safety Commissioner Bob Jacobson said that state authorities would investigate the shooting with federal authorities.
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