ICE car chase in St. Paul termed reckless

ST. PAUL, Minn. — A high-speed chase by Trump deportation agents through a densely populated neighborhood ended n a multi-vehicle crash with injuries. In the end, ICE agents arrested the man they were pursuing — believed tiobe a Honduran man whose name was not released. He was thought to be in his 20s.  There were injuries. Witnesses called the chase a reckless endangerment to public safety by ICE agents. This was about 9:20 a.m. in a 25-mph zone a few blocks off interstate 94 in the Cathedral Hill neighborhood . Witnesses said the pursued driver had run red lights and struck at least one other car. His own car disabled, the man shimmied out of the wreck and ran. Pursuing ICE agents were quoted: “I’m going to tase you. I’m going to tase you.”  One witness reported yelling out his window to the man, who had leaped a fence, to go around the front the building and come inside for safety. “He never made it,” the witness said. The Honduran man was taken away a sheet over his head. A St. Paul firefighter said he understood the man’s injuries were not life-threatening. A woman whose car airbag deployed was also taken to a hospital. The extent of her injuries was not known immediately.

The pursued vehicle. The red Toyota Prius from which the ICE-pursued man fled, only to be be tased and hauled off. Image: Alyssa Chen