“ICE was making contact with a target who then allegedly assaulted an officer with a shovel or swung a shovel, shots were fired, and the suspect ran back to a house.”
UPDATE: DHS released a statement clarifying the details of the shooting and assault on the officer:
DHS released a statement to Fox News that read:
"At 6:50 PM CT, federal law enforcement officers were conducting a targeted traffic stop in Minneapolis of an illegal alien from Venezuela who was released into the country by Joe Biden in 2022. In an attempt to evade arrest, the subject fled the scene in his vehicle and crashed into a parked car. The subject then fled on foot.
"The law enforcement officer caught up to the subject on foot and attempted to apprehend him when the subject began to resist and violently assault the officer. While the subject and law enforcement were in a struggle on the ground, two subjects came out of a nearby apartment and also attacked the law enforcement officer with a snow shovel and broom handle. As the officer was being ambushed and attacked by the two individuals, the original subject got loose and began striking the officer with a shovel or broom stick.
"Fearing for his life and safety as he was being ambushed by three individuals, the officer fired defensive shots to defend his life. The initial subject was hit in the leg. All three subjects ran back into the apartment and barricaded themselves inside. The attacked officer and subject are both in the hospital. Both attackers are in custody.
"This attack on another brave member of law enforcement took place while Minnesota’s top leaders, Governor Walz and Mayor Frey, are actively encouraging an organized resistance to ICE and federal law enforcement officers. Their hateful rhetoric and resistance against men and women who are simply trying to do their jobs must end. Federal law enforcement officers are facing a 1,300% increase in assaults against them as they put their lives on the line to arrest criminals and lawbreakers."
Antifa agitators and law enforcement clashed at the scene of the shooting in the late evening.
Original story follows:
The City of Minnesota announced on Wednesday night that there had been a shooting in North Minneapolis involving federal law enforcement. This follows nearly a week of protests following the shooting death of Renee Good, who was shot while driving her car into ICE agents.
https://twitter.com/CityMinneapolis/status/2011615337444155561
The man who was shot, injured, and apprehended was a Venezuelan who was illegally in the country and was the target of an ICE operation. ICE went to the his door and agents were attacked with a shovel and a broom handle by three people including the original suspect.
A reporter on the scene from Fox said that the scene was chaotic and that activists were egging the man on to use the shovel against agents.
https://twitter.com/tpostmillennial/status/2011628618397700196
Fox News' Bill Melugin originally reported "I’m told by four law enforcement sources there has been another ICE involved shooting in Minneapolis tonight. I’m told ICE was making contact with a target who then allegedly assaulted an officer with a shovel or swung a shovel, shots were fired, and the suspect ran back to a house. No info yet on if anyone was actually shot - just that shots were fired."
He followed up saying "I'm now told a suspect, believed to be Venezuelan, was indeed shot, but is okay/stable and is now in custody."
https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/2011619183583510617?s=20
Governor Tim Walz said that "ICE agents are going door-to-door, ordering people to point out where their neighbors of color live."
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/2011624685495337432?s=20
The official City of Minneapolis account posted about the shooting but provided little information. The account is virulently anti-ICE, however, with multiple posts about ICE being "divisive." Earlier on Wednesday, the City posted that "Amid ICE’s divisive presence in our neighborhoods, we’ve heard reports of threats of violence against schools and community organizations. Call 911 immediately if you hear about or receive a threat involving schools, students, or community groups."
https://twitter.com/CityMinneapolis/status/2011521233083388360?s=20
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The City has also brought suit against the Trump administration for conducting federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis. The City asked "the judge to end the dangerous surge of federal immigration enforcement in our city."
Many local leaders and politicians have spoken out in Minneapolis against immigration enforcement even as threats against federal agents have increased. The city has determined itself to be a sanctuary city, meaning that they do not believe that local police have to cooperate with federal law enforcement.
This means that when ICE officers go to Minneapolis to pick up illegal immigrant criminals in the city, they have to hunt them down. In other jurisdictions, when local police arrest a person with an ICE detainer, they hold that person until such time as ICE can come get them. In Minneapolis, local law enforcement simply releases those criminals back out onto the street.