Video Shows ICE Agent’s Fatal Shooting of Civilian in Minneapolis |
The Intercept obtained video of a federal law enforcement agent shooting multiple rounds into the vehicle of a civilian, as locals protested an ICE raid in a residential neighborhood of Minneapolis on Wednesday morning.
The driver, who local officials identified as a 37-year-old woman, can then be seen losing control of the car and slamming into another vehicle, with smoke billowing from their dark red Honda Pilot.
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shot the woman, calling her a “rioter” and claiming in a release that the agents felt their lives were threatened. DHS told The Intercept that the person in the car had died.
In the video, the red vehicle appears to be blocking federal agents in a roadway when federal agents approach the car, one reaching into the open driver’s side window. In the video and another posted online from a different vantage point, the agents can be heard saying “Get out of the fucking car.”
As the car appears to be leaving the scene, moving around another federal agent in the roadway, the agent fires at short range directly into the driver’s side.
The video does not clearly show that the person was attempting to run over agents, as DHS claimed. Federal agents had been conducting “targeted operations” in the area when protesters began to arrive, said........