Overview
- A widely shared clip appears to show an ICE agent firing through a car window at close range as the driver slowly reverses, before the SUV rolls into a parked vehicle.
- Homeland Security says the agent shot in self-defense, asserting the woman used her vehicle as a weapon and attempted to kill federal officers.
- The office of Senator Tina Smith said the victim was the wife of a leader in the migrant-rights movement.
- Reporters documented a heavy federal and local law-enforcement presence at 34th Street and Portland Avenue in the Powderhorn area, about a kilometer from the site of George Floyd’s killing.
- Protesters gathered at the scene as Mayor Jacob Frey urged federal forces to leave, with the operation described as a deployment of more than 2,000 ICE personnel and linked in part to alleged fraud involving Somali-origin residents; senior CBP official Gregory Bovino was present.