MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (AFP) — Protesters clashed with law enforcement officers in Minneapolis on Thursday after the fatal shooting of a woman by an immigration agent triggered outrage fueled by the Trump administration’s insistence she was guilty of “domestic terrorism.”

Federal officers armed with pepperball guns and teargas scuffled with a large crowd of protesters beside a government facility in Fort Snelling just outside Minneapolis, an AFP photographer saw.

The noisy crowd chanted slogans attacking the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency as officers pushed against protesters, detaining several, including one who struck an agent with a cardboard sign.

The victim of Wednesday’s shooting, identified as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, was hit at point-blank range as she apparently tried to drive away from agents who were crowding around her car, which they said was blocking their way.

Footage of the incident shows a masked ICE agent attempting to open the woman’s car door before another masked agent fired three times into the Honda SUV.

The vehicle then hurtled out of control and smashed into stationary vehicles, as horrified onlookers hurled abuse at the federal officers. Her bloodied body is then seen slumped in the crashed vehicle.

US President Donald Trump and senior officials quickly claimed Good was trying to kill the agents, an........

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