An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer fired multiple shots at a driver while standing in front of her car during protests in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Wednesday, video footage shows.
At least three federal agents were seen approaching the now-deceased driver’s SUV and ordering her to step out just before the altercation occurred in a video posted on X by Minnesota Reformer journalist Max Nesterak and by InsiderWire. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) blamed the driver for the incident in a statement, claiming she attempted to run an officer over just before he fired.
“Get out of the car. Get out of the fucking car,” one agent was heard saying in the video as the group approached the vehicle on a snowy road in a suburban neighborhood. The agent then grabbed the car’s door handle, and a bystander is heard yelling “No!” as the driver begins to move the car backward.
Another agent was seen circling the car just as it was moving, eventually standing in front of it just before it lunged forward. He fired at least two shots at the driver as the car came towards him before moving out of the way as it continued moving forward, the footage shows. The car then veered off the side of the road and crashed into another vehicle.
“You’re fucking criminals!” a bystander is heard yelling at law enforcement after the shots.
“Today, ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations when rioters began blocking ICE officers and one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them — an act of domestic terrorism,” a DHS spokesperson told the Daily Caller. “An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots. He used his training and saved his own life and that of his fellow officers.”
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