A woman was fatally shot by federal officers in Minneapolis on Wednesday, just days after the Trump administration deployed thousands of new immigration agents to the city.
What happened? This is a breaking news story, and more details will almost certainly continue to emerge. What we do know is based on local reporting collecting video and eyewitness accounts from the scene, including multiple angles of the shooting:
- The shooting occurred as a vehicle attempted to drive away from federal immigration officers; at least one officer fired multiple shots at close range into the driver’s side of the vehicle, causing it to crash a short distance away.
- The driver of the vehicle was shot and killed, Minneapolis officials and the Department of Homeland Security have both confirmed.
What’s the context? This kind of violence has seemed all but inevitable since federal immigration officials began military-style deployments to US cities last year, resulting in a tide of videos capturing excessive use of force against Americans by immigration agents.
In one similar incident last year, Customs and Border Prote