A United States immigration agent shot and killed a driver in Minneapolis, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed on Wednesday.
According to the account DHS Secretary Kristi Noem gave at a press conference, ICE officers were attempting to free a vehicle stuck in the snow when a woman used her car to block the officers along with "a mob of agitators that were harassing them all day," and ICE agents approached her car and told her to get out of the car repeatedly.
According to Noem, the woman "proceeded to weaponize her vehicle and she attempted to run a law enforcement officer over."
Noem called it "an act of domestic terrorism," and said that "today alone in this country, there have been four different domestic terrorist attacks on federal officers by the ramming of vehicles."
Contrary to the DHS statement, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara told reporters that the preliminary investigation indicated the woman's vehicle was blocking traffic when a federal officer approached on foot.
"The vehicle began to drive off," he said. "At least two shots were fired. The vehicle then crashed on the side of the roadway."
ICE officers who were injured during the incident are expected to make full recoveries, DHS added.
Minneapolis Mayor: "To ICE, get the f*** out of Minneapolis"
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey rejected the DHS claim that the shooting was an act of self-defense, claiming in a press conference that this "was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in someone dying, getting killed."
"They're ripping families apart, they're sowing chaos on our streets, and in this case, quite literally killing people. They are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bulls***," Frey said.
"There's little I can say...but I do have a message for ICE," Frey added. "To ICE, get the f*** out of Minneapolis."
Frey also blamed the Trump administration in a post on X for heightening tensions around immigration enforcement.
"The presence of federal immigration enforcement agents is causing chaos in our city," Frey said on X/Twitter. "We're demanding ICE to leave the city immediately. We stand rock solid with our immigrant and refugee communities."
In response to Frey's comments about the self-defense claims, Noem said, "He doesn't know what he's talking about," and added, "Our officer followed his training, did exactly what he's been taught to do in that situation and took actions to defend himself and defend his fellow law enforcement officers."
President Trump later stated that "the reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our law enforcement officers and ICE agents on a daily basis," in a post on Truth Social.
This is a developing story.