MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A 51-year-old man shot by federal immigration officials in Minneapolis on Saturday has died, according to hospital records obtained by The Associated Press.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said the person was shot during the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration. Details surrounding the shooting were not immediately clear.
Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin told the AP in a text message that the person had a firearm with two magazines and that the situation was “evolving.”
The shooting comes amid widespread daily protests in the Twin Cities since the Jan. 7 shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good, who was killed when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fired into her vehicle. Saturday’s shooting happened just over a mile from where Good was shot.
Walz, a Democrat, said in a social media post that he had been in contact with the White House after the shooting. He called on President Donald Trump to end what the Department of Homeland Security calls the largest immigration operation ever.
“Get thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now,” Walz said in a post on X.
DHS distributed a photo of a handgun they said was on the person who was shot.
After the shooting, an angry mob gathered and shouted profanities at the federal officers, calling them “cowards” and telling them to go home. One officer mockingly responded as he left, telling them “Boo hoo”. Elsewhere, agents pushed a screaming protester into a car.
The intersection where the shooting was blocked and Border Patrol agents are on the scene with batons.
The shooting came a day after thousands of anti-immigrant protesters crowded the city’s streets in freezing weather, calling on federal police to leave.
Jack Brook of the Associated Press. Associated Press writer Jim Mustian contributed from New York.
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