ICE Shoots Second Person in Minneapolis, Community Responds

Minneapolis, MN – A federal agent with ICE shot a man in Minneapolis last night, marking the second shooting in the city committed by immigration enforcement agents since Trump’s administration launched the federal occupation of the Twin Cities. Immediately after the incident, neighbors and community members flooded the scene, chasing off the agents involved and uncovering sensitive operational details left behind by the agency.

The shooting happened after ICE agents began pursuing a man in a vehicle on 24^th Ave. N., according to a Department of Homeland Security press statement.

In a show of support, community members confronted ICE, attempting to intervene in the arrest of the man agents were trying to detain and to protest what was being reported as two people shot.

According to reports, the person crashed his car and fled on foot before being tackled by the yet-unnamed ICE agent. When neighbors saw the struggle unfolding, two people reportedly came out of a nearby home and confronted the ICE agents, hitting the agent attempting the arrest with a broom handle and a snow shovel, according to the statement.

An agent shot the man at some point in the struggle, hitting him in the leg. He fled into a nearby home before closing and locking the door. A standoff ensued before agents broke down the door and arrested the original target and at least two other people.

In the moments immediately after the shooting, and for hours into the night afterward, protesters arrived at the scene and confronted ICE agents, Customs and Border Protection tactical teams and local police. Law enforcement fired flashbang grenades and tear gas, while protesters responded by launching fireworks at police.

Federal agents used massive amounts of tear gas, shot pepper balls and smoke grenades. Some are fearing that a canister let off by agents with green smoke was hexachloroethane, a toxic chemical weapon. Photojournalist Chris Juhn said it was “the most tear gas” he’s ever experienced and said of the gas used that, “a gas mask isn’t enough. This was going into peoples homes over north. It’s so bad the military stopped using it from the damage it does. I thought it was weird it rose instead of fell. I’m glad I didn’t get it too thick. I left when I started to breath it in. But my body feels weird, def not normal tear gas.”

The unleashing of chemical warfare was in the middle of a residential neighborhood in the Northside of Minneapolis. At an intersection, ICE agents threw tear gas and flash bangs directly into the car of a family with six kids who was trying to pass through the area to get home.

The ICE agents fled the scene on foot, leaving behind two-to-three unmarked patrol vehicles. Protesters damaged the cars, smashing windows, writing graffiti, and flattening tires. Some found documents and materials left behind by the agents using the vehicle that revealed sensitive operational details about ICE’s operations in Minnesota.

Among the documents found were hotel booking confirmations, points of contact within the FBI and other agencies, contact information for the judges signing ICE’s warrants, holding and transport locations for detained people, and procedural documents. View the documents here.

On a livestream of the protest, someone rifled through a stack of “challenge coins” found inside the car. These coins, which often carry elaborate imagery and messages, serve as memorabilia for military and law enforcement who exchange the tokens among friends and colleagues.

A rifle was reportedly taken from one of the vehicles after community pried open a safe — the other safe was not opened before police arrived back in the neighborhood and got the vehicles towed.

Wednesday’s shooting marks the second one committed by ICE agents in just over one week, the first being the fatal shooting of Renee Good on January 7.

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension announced shortly after the shooting that it would conduct an independent investigation into the shooting.

In the aftermath of the protest, Trump threatened on his Truth Social platform to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy the military to quell protests against ICE in the Twin Cities.