Overview
- Cellphone video from a south Minneapolis intersection shows an ICE agent kneeling on a woman's back and later dragging her through the snow before releasing her.
- Chief Brian O’Hara called the footage profoundly disturbing and said local officers responded to a federal request for help, then left once they assessed the situation as safe.
- A DHS spokeswoman said protesters threw rocks and chunks of ice, assaulted officers, and used pepper spray, adding that two people were charged and agents reported injuries.
- DHS asserted agents tried to arrest the woman after she rushed an ICE vehicle, while witnesses and footage described agents breaking a car window, using chemical irritants and a taser, and detaining a male driver.
- Community leaders describe a multi‑week federal enforcement surge across the Twin Cities as increasingly aggressive, with the clash occurring a few miles from the site where George Floyd was killed in 2020.