In the hours after Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent in south Minneapolis on Wednesday, Jan. 7, a crowd of about 200 protesters confronted federal agents and Minneapolis Police officers at the scene and called on ICE to leave. “This should never have happened,” said state Rep. Mohamud Noor, DFL-Minneapolis.
ICE agents deployed tear gas on a crowd Friday, Jan. 9, outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building at Fort Snelling as a handful of Trump supporters taunted about 200 activists who were protesting the killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent. The Whipple Building, a headquarters for ICE, has been the site of ongoing protests.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security confirmed Wednesday night that an immigration agent shot and wounded a Venezuelan man in north Minneapolis after he fled a traffic stop. A crowd of more than 100 protestors arrived in the area of 25th Street and Lyndale Avenue N. to confront federal agents, leading to several hours of clashes where agents filed multiple rounds of tear gas, flashbang grenades, pepperballs and smoke bombs.
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