The deadly shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE officer Wednesday is the ninth shooting by an immigration officer in just the past four months, and all of them involved firing at people in vehicles, according to a New York Times report.
Video of the incident shared with theReformer shows masked ICE officers approaching a Honda Pilot stopped in the middle of Portland Avenue near 34th Street. One officer tells the driver, 37-year-old Renee Good, to “get out of the f—ing car” and tries to open the door. Good then slowly backs up and then pulls forward, appearing to try to leave. An officer at the front of the vehicle fires three shots and the SUV travels a short distance before crashing into a parked car.
The deadly incident comes just days after the Trump administration began a massive deployment of 2,000 immigration enforcement officers to Minnesota, ramping up an immigration crackdown that has already caused massive disturbances in Minnesota’s immigrant communities — including the Somali Minnesotan community that is almost entirely citizens and legal residents.
In each of the recent ICE shootings, the government has claimed the officer was acting in self-defense.
Other reporting shows, however, that law enforcement experts have long warned against shooting into cars, and most of the nation’s major cities have banned the practice.
“Bad idea. Bad to do,” said Carmen Best, the former Seattle police chief, in a 2021 interview with the Times. “If you think the vehicle is coming toward you, get yourself out of the way.”
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