CNN law enforcement reporter Whitney Wild was caught in the middle of a standoff between police and protesters in Minneapolis on Wednesday night after an immigration agent shot and wounded an immigrant during an arrest.
The Department of Homeland Securitysaid in a statement that a Venezuelan immigrant was shot in the leg after “violently” resisting arrest during a “targeted” traffic stop. DHS said the man fled the scene in his car, crashed into a parked vehicle, and took off on foot.
The event was broadcast on social media, which helped quickly attract a crowd of protesters to the neighborhood.
CNN cameras captured agents firing tear gasto disperse the crowd. Wild said she also heard flashbang grenades going off in the background.
“It’s quite chaotic, and it’s going more so,” Wild said.
Wild said the crowd also appeared to be growing.
“They’re surrounding these immigration officers and letting them know without any ambiguity that they do not like what they see and they want them to leave,” Wild said. “This has been an ongoing scene throughout the city of Minneapolis.”
After the shooting, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a Democrat, called on Trump to take his immigration agents out of the state. Trump initially surged more than 2,000 agents into the state to address alleged social services fraud by the Somali community.
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