Overview
- Homeland Security says a federal officer shot and wounded a Venezuelan man in self-defense on Wednesday, with police reporting non-life-threatening injuries and two additional people taken into custody.
- Federal deployment in the Twin Cities now numbers in the thousands, outstripping Minneapolis’s police force, with DHS reporting more than 2,500 arrests since late November.
- Minnesota, Minneapolis, and St. Paul have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to halt Operation Metro Surge on constitutional grounds.
- Federal officials identified Jonathan Ross as the officer who fatally shot Renee Good on Jan. 7, as circulating videos from multiple angles continue to fuel dispute over whether the force was justified.
- Scrutiny of official accounts intensified after a viral exchange between White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and a reporter and a TV appearance in which ex-FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe said DHS has “no credibility” on the shootings.