A federal immigration officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis after she allegedly tried to drive her vehicle into law enforcement officers amid a large-scale immigration enforcement operation, authorities said Wednesday.
The shooting happened in a residential neighborhood south of downtown Minneapolis, just a few blocks from some of the oldest immigrant markets in the area and a mile (1.6 kilometers) from where George Floyd was killed by police in 2020.
Federal officials claimed the shooting was an act of self-defense but the cityβs Mayor Jacob Frey described it as βrecklessβ and unnecessary.
The area where the sho
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