Overview
- Homeland Security confirmed an ICE agent shot and killed a woman in her vehicle near East 34th Street and Portland Avenue during an ongoing federal enforcement operation.
- DHS says the agent fired in self-defense after the driver used her car as a weapon, but the mayor and police chief, citing video and witness accounts, say she was not a target and reject the self-defense claim.
- Roughly 2,000 federal personnel have been deployed across the Twin Cities, with DHS reporting more than 1,000 arrests, in a campaign tied in part to fraud investigations that have drawn scrutiny to the Somali community.
- Protesters gathered at the scene and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey demanded that ICE leave the city, as DHS Secretary Kristi Noem labeled the incident an act of domestic terrorism and senior CBP official Gregory Bovino appeared on site.
- Operational tensions extended to logistics after DHS accused a Minneapolis Hilton of canceling agent reservations, prompting apologies from Hilton and the hotel’s operator.