Federal agents shot and killed a man in south Minneapolis on Saturday morning, according to witnesses and video posted to social media.
The video, a version of which was posted to X, shows several agents wrestling the man to the ground before a gunshot rings out. Agents scattered and fired multiple shots at the man, who then lay still on the sidewalk.
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told the Star Tribune that the victim, an unidentified 37-year-old white resident of the city, was dead.
In a statement posted to X, the Department of Homeland Security claimed that the victim approached US Border Patrol officers while carrying a semiautomatic handgun and two magazines, and “that officers attempted to disarm the suspect but the armed suspect violently resisted.”
“Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, an agent fired defensive shots,” the statement continued. (The DHS statement is unverified, and the agency has previously given unreliable accounts of violent incidents involving federal agents.)
Live footage posted to social media in the aftermath of the shooting showed a loud and growing crowd of protesters gathering at the site of the shooting and a beefed up federal presence alongside what appeared to be local police trying to enforce a perimeter around the chaotic scene. Agents deployed multiple tear gas canisters.
According to the Star Tribune, several witnesses have been detained. ICE agents ordered Minneapolis police to leave, but O’Hara refused, telling officers to preserve the scene.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz posted to social media that he spoke to the White House after the shooting, and that “Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.”
Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) both posted on X, demanding that ICE leave the state.
It’s the second time in a little more than two weeks that federal agents have shot and killed someone amid President Donald Trump’s escalating crackdown in the city. An ICE agent shot Renée Good earlier this month as she attempted to drive away from the site of an altercation between agents and locals—sparking mass protests and condemnation from state and local officials. Today’s shooting comes just one day after a historic general strike halted business in the city, with solidarity rallies breaking out in other major cities.
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