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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said a 37-year-old man was shot multiple times and died at a hospital.
A U.S. federal agent has shot and killed another person during an immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, authorities said.
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said at a news conference Saturday that a 37-year-old man, whose identity has not yet been released, suffered multiple gunshot wounds and died at a hospital.
O’Hara told reporters the man lived in Minneapolis and was a U.S. citizen.
“What we are asking today is that the federal agencies operating in our cities operate with the same discipline, humanity, and integrity that any effective law enforcement agency in this country requires,” he said.
The deadly shooting occurred during weeks of raids by U.S. immigration enforcement agents and other federal agents in Minneapolis as part of President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant push.
“That’s what happened to Minnesota. This is disgusting. The President must stop this operation. Get thousands of violent, untrained police officers out of Minnesota. Now,” Minnesota Governor Tim Walz wrote on social media after Saturday’s incident.
Video footage of the shooting circulating on social media showed a group of US law enforcement officers pushing a person to the ground before several gunshots were heard.
The Department of Homeland Security later confirmed that a U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and killed a person in the incident. The individual was reportedly in possession of a handgun and resisted attempts to disarm him.
The shooting occurred just weeks after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents fatally shot a Minneapolis woman named Renee Nicole Good inside her car earlier this month.
Federal agents shot and killed a Venezuelan man in a separate incident in the city last week.
“How many more residents will have to die?”
President Trump and his administration have justified sending ICE and other federal agents to Minneapolis as part of the president’s pledge to carry out the largest deportation operation in the country’s history.
But residents and elected officials denounced the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policies and said the presence of heavily armed police on the streets does not make people safer.
At a press conference Saturday, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey criticized the Trump administration for its continued crackdown.
“I just saw a video of more than half a dozen undercover operatives beating and shooting one voter,” Frey said. “How many more residents, how many more Americans will need to die or be seriously injured to end this operation?
“How many more lives will have to be lost before this administration understands that political and partisan rhetoric is not as important as American values? How many times will local and national leaders…donald Trump, have to plead with you to end this operation and realize that this is not creating safety in our cities?”
Other local and state leaders also called on President Trump to end the federal deployment following Saturday’s killings.
Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who represents Minnesota, wrote to X: “To all the silent Trump administration and Congressional Republicans: Get ICE out of your state now.”
call for calm
The city of Minneapolis urged residents to “remain calm and avoid the immediate area of the incident” as it gathers more details about what happened.
But protesters gathered near the scene of the shooting, and footage Saturday morning showed clouds of tear gas in the air amid tight security.
Al Jazeera’s Heidi Chou Castro, reporting from Washington, D.C., said the incident further escalated tensions in Minneapolis, which she described as a “tinderbox.”
“This is really a direct confrontation between President Trump and federal authorities and local and state authorities in Minnesota,” Castro said, noting that the fight has been going on since massive protests erupted in Minneapolis after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020.
Thousands of people marched through the streets of Minneapolis on Friday, denouncing ICE and the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant crackdown. Hundreds of local businesses also closed as part of the general strike.
