The mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, stated on Wednesday, 7, that the Trump administration’s claim that an Immigration and Customs Service (ICE) agent acted in self-defense when he shot and killed a woman during an operation is “a big lie”.
“They are already trying to distort this, claiming self-defense. Having seen the video, I want to tell everyone directly: this is a big lie,” said the mayor.
Renee Nicole Macklin Good, 37, was shot in the head by an ICE agent on Wednesday morning in a residential neighborhood in Minneapolis. A video shows the moment her car blocks the road where ICE vehicles were trying to pass.
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One of the police officers gets out of the vehicle and tries to open Renee’s car door, but the driver reverses and then accelerates, in what appears to be an attempt to flee the scene. At that moment, a second agent, who was near the front of the car, shoots the woman.
US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem described the incident as an “act of domestic terrorism” against ICE agents by a woman who “attempted to run them over and struck them with her vehicle.” “One of our officers acted quickly and defensively, shooting to protect himself and those around him,” he said.
Kristi also said that the officer responsible for the shooting had already been run over and dragged by an anti-ICE driver in June. The same version of self-defense was reiterated by US President Donald Trump.
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Frey classified the version presented by Kristi as a “garbage narrative”. In a visibly angry speech, he stated that, although ICE claims that its actions are aimed at ensuring security for the population, the agency’s actions produce the opposite effect. The mayor used profanity to demand that the officers leave Minneapolis.
“To ICE: get the hell out of Minneapolis. You stated that your reason for being in this city was to create some type of security, but you are doing just the opposite,” Frey said. “They are separating families. They are sowing chaos on our streets and, in this case, literally killing people.”
More than 2,000 federal agents have been deployed to the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul in recent weeks as part of the crackdown on immigration fraud.
“We have feared this moment since the early stages of ICE’s presence in Minneapolis,” the mayor said. “This was a federal agent using his power recklessly, which resulted in someone’s death.”
Frey has the support of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who harshly criticized the version presented by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Walz classified the Trump administration’s narrative as “propaganda” and stated that the State will guarantee a “thorough, fair and rapid” investigation to ensure accountability. (With information from the Associated Press).
