Protesters and federal agents faced off in Minneapolis the morning after an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed an American woman during a raid in the city.
Multiple videos captured the as-yet-identified ICE agent fire three times into a vehicle driven by 37-year-old Renee Good, who was killed, and federal agents fired pepper balls into a crowd of protesters Thursday morning shortly after day break in a tense confrontation, reported CNN’s Ryan Young.
“So this is really taking a turn here,” Young said from the scene. “They were blocking the front of this facility, and now these agents have responded by trying to walk in their own cars, and they are starting to use some pepper or tear gas agents to move parts of the crowd. You can hear them saying, ‘Shame,’ and so this has really just all taken place in the last three minutes or so. So this has taken definitely an escalation. This gate is, one of the gates they were trying to block to stop Border Patrol and ICE agents from getting inside, and then at some point there was a notice to give a clearing, and when that clearing happened, these agents showed up and you see them armed, and that is a less than lethal weapon here that they’re shooting pepper balls toward the crowd.”
“They’ve cleared a certain section, but now as you see them, they’re sort of retreating back, back toward their main gate here,” Young added. “But this is definitely taking more of a offensive stance from the Border Patrol agents. That’s happening right in front of us.”
Young reported a short time later that one of the protesters had been taken into custody and the network’s photographer captured video of the man being placed into handcuffs and led away.
“You see how upset people are getting and you see how angry folks are,” Young reported. “This crowd is on the edge when it comes to the tactics that are being used. We are not sure why they decided to identify this man as someone they needed to take into custody, but obviously this is a second person that they have gone after into this crowd. There were a lot of women who got pushed down to the ground, which made more of the men in the crowd get upset and pushed back. We saw a physical confrontation where a man put two hands and shoved one of the agents in the chest that, made the agents respond with more force, and as you can hear the crowd now saying, ‘Shame.’ But at least they’ve stopped shooting pepper balls at this point, which really – oh, and they’re taking this man away right now.”
“So as you see this, they’ve actually asked for the – oh, now they’re pushing again,” Young continued. “This is really – oh, they’re firing pepper balls. So as you see that smoke coming back our direction – I got you, Effie. I have my arm around our photographer here because this crowd is shifting on this ice. There’s a lot of pushing and shoving, and people are very angry. We have some people opening their jackets and saying, ‘Shoot me here, shoot me here,’ and that now they’re pulling back. The man they arrested in this direction over here, falling back to the gate that we talked about before. They have bear spray, as well, that they’re using.”
“Look at this right here,” he added. “They’re going after someone else, so you can feel the anger of this crowd. People want to hit these agents. Some people started throwing snowballs at them. This agent obviously fell and had to be retrieved by his fellow agents as they pulled him back. So this is all unfolding as the anger continues here.”
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