MINNEAPOLIS — A Trump deportation agent shot and killed a driver almost point-blank as she steered away from an ICE raid to arrest immigrants. Citizen video showed the agent trying to force open the vehicle’s door and then firing two, perhaps three blasts into the woman’s head. The vehicle lurched a few feet and lodged into a parked vehicle. Another video a few minutes later showed a blood-splattered steering-wheel airbag. The woman, whose name wasn’t known immediately, died before arriving at a nearby hospital. The shooting was in a south Minneapolis residential neighborhood about 9:30 a.m. A contingent from Trump’s Immigration Control and Enforcement agency had been assigned to raid the area for immigrants. A citizen-alert patrol mobilized quickly to blow whistles to warn people what was happening and to stay indoors and lock doors. This peaceful tactic frustrated the heavily armed ICE agents, all in combat gear and who responded with tear gas.
First fatality in Trump’s ICE crackdown. Yellow tape marks he crime scene.
ICE in Minneapolis
Trump storm troopers have moved from Democratic city to Democratic city around the country to facilitate to his round-ups of immigrants — 75,000 as of October — but also to silence dissident voices under the cover of catching criminally violent immigrants. Trump expanded the ICE presence in Minnesota recentky. Hee escalated the ICE deployment in Minneapolis and St. Paul to 2,000 agents ostensibly to save Minnesotans from criminal immigrant gangs. The federal government’s own data, however, show violent crimes declining. Trump critics said the mega-deployments were instead intended not only as racist xenophobia but as intimidation to silence opposition to his strong-monarchical policies and to harass the state’s Democratic Governor Tim Walz. Trump has long-term and growing grudges against Walz over political differences.