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 city’s Mayor Jacob Frey described it as β€œreckless” and unnecessary.

The area where the sho

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