Culture ICE shoots woman amid vehicle altercation and immigration investigation.

https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/01/07/minneapolis-shooting-ice-enforcement (https://archive.ph/8RJj4)

A federal agent shot and killed a Minneapolis motorist when she allegedly tried to run over law enforcement officers during an immigration crackdown in the city, authorities said Wednesday.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot the woman in her vehicle in a residential neighborhood in Minneapolis, Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.

Video posted online showed the vehicle crashed in a residential neighborhood. The shooting drew throngs of angry protesters to the scene in an area that is the latest target of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.

Follow live coverage of the shooting from MPR News in Minneapolis.

There was a large presence of federal and local officers, yellow police tape and cars that had been in a crash in the residential neighborhood. Gregory Bovino, a senior U.S. Customs and Border Patrol official who has been the face of crackdowns in Los Angeles, Chicago and elsewhere, was among the group.

“We are aware of a shooting involving federal law enforcement near East 34th Street and Portland Avenue. Please avoid this area,” the city government said on X.

In a scene similar to the Los Angeles and Chicago crackdowns, bystanders didn't hold back in venting their anger, blowing whistles, taunting the federal agents.

“Shame! Shame! Shame!” and “ICE out of Minnesota!” they loudly chanted from behind the police tape, referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

People protest as law enforcement officers attend to the scene after an ICE agent shot a woman on Jan. 7 in Minneapolis. (Tom Baker/AP)
People protest as law enforcement officers attend to the scene after an ICE agent shot a woman on Jan. 7 in Minneapolis. (Tom Baker/AP)

After the shooting, Mayor Jacob Frey said immigration agents were “causing chaos in our city.”

“We are demanding ICE leave the city and state immediately. We stand rock solid with our immigrant and refugee communities," Frey said on social media.

The area where the shooting occurred is a modest neighborhood south of downtown Minneapolis, just a few blocks from some of the oldest immigrant markets in the area and a mile from where George Floyd was killed by police in 2020.

“We’ve been trying to live life as fully as possible in light of the fear and anxiety that we feel,” said the Rev. Hierald Osorto, pastor at St. Paul’s-San Pablo Lutheran Church, which has a predominantly Latino congregation in the area.

The Immigration Defense Network, a coalition of groups serving immigrants in Minnesota, held a training session Tuesday night for about 100 people who are willing to hit the streets to monitor the federal enforcement.

“I feel like I'm an ordinary person, and I have the ability do something so I need to do it,” Mary Moran told KMSP-TV.

The Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday that it had launched an extraordinary immigration enforcement operation, with 2,000 agents and officers expected in the Minneapolis and St. Paul area for a crackdown tied in part to allegations of fraud involving Somali residents.

Federal law enforcement officers at scene of the shooting in Minneapolis on Jan. 7. (Tom Baker/AP)
Federal law enforcement officers at scene of the shooting in Minneapolis on Jan. 7. (Tom Baker/AP)

The Immigration Defense Network, a coalition of groups serving immigrants in Minnesota, held a training session Tuesday night for about 100 people who are willing to hit the streets to monitor the federal enforcement.

“I feel like I'm an ordinary person, and I have the ability do something so I need to do it,” Mary Moran told KMSP-TV.

 

[Amin Yasister]

You asked in what instance you can legally flee law enforcement not if this particular incident qualifies.

What?

 

[Kendall Motor Oil]

I hate how many White people are there advocating for the death of their communities

Its a lot of indoctrinated white women from privileged backgrounds and a lot have a kind of phenotype. Its crazy how consistent it is. They only experience other cultures through mainstream media and wealthy neighbors who don't act like the common person from their country.

 

[Gorilla Man]

I can pull a dozen body cam videos of police officers shooting retards for trying to ram over police officers with their cars
This is what happens
The only reason why this is making national news is because democrats are going to run on "ICE IS THE GESTAPO 2.0! TRUMP IS LITERALLY HITLER!" for the midterms, because they have nothing else to run on

 

[Übertroon]

Do you think a car automatically stops when the driver is shot? The trajectory of the car remained the same after he ventilated her and he was perfectly fine. All that he achieved was kill a mother and send a car straight into the ditch.

I know you want to see dead white women, but keep it to the woman-hate thread.

Trying to flee arrest and driving in the path of a law enforcement officer justifies lethal force even if the officer could dodge the car and survive.

 

[draggs]

Do you think a car automatically stops when the driver is shot? The trajectory of the car remained the same after he ventilated her and he was perfectly fine. All that he achieved was kill a mother and send a car straight into the ditch.

I know you want to see dead white women, but keep it to the woman-hate thread.

The car veers to the right after he fires, try watching the video this time lol. He was less than ten feet away from the vehicle when she decided to tromp the gas pedal, he had every justification to defend himself in that split second

Please keep being a retard it's very funny

btw this guy has some pro athlete level reflexes and hand eye coordination, to get his gun out, fire one accurate shot and dodge in about 3/4 of a second. Half his body was still in front of the car when he fired

 

[W@rui]

I hate how many White people are there advocating for the death of their communities.

Some of the worst Uncle Toms I've ever came across are White people; lately anyway. Even with Blacks, I don't ever see them call the genocide and extinction of their own race.

 

[niggerfelon]

Do you think a car automatically stops when the driver is shot? The trajectory of the car remained the same after he ventilated her and he was perfectly fine. All that he achieved was kill a mother and send a car straight into the ditch.

I know you want to see dead white women, but keep it to the woman-hate thread.

Propose a better way to stop a fleeing suspect that doesn't involve a potential multicar pileup or extended police chase.

Go on. I'll wait.

 

[gay]

condensed it to just the shooting and the car crashing into another parked car (excuse the banshee shrieking).

in slowmo.


exact frame of the first shot, the front wheels are turned to the right with the ICE agent not directly in front of the vehicle - these frames will be scrutinized to absolute death in court and i believe this'll actually be a sore point for the self defense claim, the ICE agent is not in the trajectory of the car at the moment the first shot was fired.

additional shots after the first, ICE agent more clearly not in harm's way, the third and final shot is taken when the agent is closer to behind the vehicle than in front of it which'll be hard to justify as self defense.

Trump weighs in:
Ver archivo adjunto 8387679

the only take away from this is that he did not watch the footage and is just saying things to bolster the claim of self defense ("viciously ran over", "it is hard to believe he is alive", "now recovering in the hospital.") even though the video angles fail to substantiate any of these things since it doesn't seem there was any contact and said agent was walking around on video just fine.

i'm reminded of a somewhat similar case i saw during my bodycam footage binging.

Spoiler: tl;dr of the case and outcome.

guy runs car into security officer (would've probably been a justified shoot at that point), pulls back and "angles" his car towards the security officer (unlike here in Minnesota where the driver is veering away rather than towards) at which point the driver is shot dead -fails to claim self defense and gets life/parole in 25 in what appears to be a way more justified claim of self defense, then again this is a security guard and not an ICE agent so there's a lack of qualified immunity, etc.

she would've been alive if she complied and died needlessly, i feel the self defense claim is a lot more strenuous than people are willing to admit because anti-ICE protests are gay as fuck, but to me this seems like a hasty shoot that probably doesn't stand up to scrutiny as far as self defense goes, the point is that the car was not driving towards the agent when the first shot was fired, and is beside/closer to being behind the vehicle when he shoots the second and third time, if she was trying to hit the agent she wouldn't have turned right and way from the agent, i need one of you fags to reconcile this for me.

 

[KrumBum]

Do you think a car automatically stops when the driver is shot? The trajectory of the car remained the same after he ventilated her and he was perfectly fine. All that he achieved was kill a mother and send a car straight into the ditch.

I know you want to see dead white women, but keep it to the woman-hate thread.

We can analyze "what if" all day. Until you're in the tense situation and legit think you're in danger you don't know how anyone will act.

Was it the smartest or best move? That's debatable. But was it justified in that moment? I think 100% yes.

 

[Gef Mongoose]

CLEARLY he should have just used his government-issue grappling hook to get out of there and appeal to her sense of justice, looking longingly into her eyes and crying while mouthing he doesn't want to be evil.

Just like my marvels!

It’s not government issued, but some police departments do have actual grappling hooks, with nets, attached to the front of their squad cars, to grab cars in front of them during their pursuits. It’s pretty cool to watch in action. And they’re effective.

 

[draggs]

exact frame of the first shot, the front wheels are turned to the right with the ICE agent not directly in front of the vehicle - these frames will be scrutinized to absolute death in court and i believe this'll actually be a sore point for the self defense claim, the ICE agent is not in the trajectory of the car at the moment the first shot was fired.

his body is very clearly half in front of the car when he fires and the only reason it doesnt hit him is he was already moving to his right (left from the driver's perspective). the front wheels being turned to the right doesn't mean shit, he would have been hit anyway if he didn't have al neri reflexes and coordination

 

[YHWH's Strongest Soldier]

We can analyze "what if" all day. Until you're in the tense situation and legit think you're in danger you don't know how anyone will act.

Was it the smartest or best move? That's debatable. But was it justified in that moment? I think 100% yes.

I expect better from people with the monopoly on killing me. ICE agents shouldn't be shooting American citizen and especially not mothers.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

the ICE agent is not in the trajectory of the car at the moment the first shot was fired.

Yeah but the agent can't be looking at the wheels to tell where they're facing because there's an SUV coming at him. He just has to stick to "I felt like my life was in imminent danger and I responded according to my training".

 

[Jace on ice]

Fuck the feds. I bet that you think Waco was a perfectly fine exercise in government power as well.

I don't but I also don't believe LE's have to just stand there and be run over by anarchists and niggers.

 

[Übertroon]

I expect better from people with the monopoly on killing me. ICE agents shouldn't be shooting American citizen and especially not mothers.

Mothers shouldn't be intentionally blocking federal agents and fleeing arrest.
Being a white woman does not give you immunity from the law, crazy I know

 

[DickMain]

Propose a better way to stop a fleeing suspect that doesn't involve a potential multicar pileup or extended police chase.

Go on. I'll wait.

Shoot out all four tires of a moving vehicle with their less-than-lethal and have a second guy carjack her Halo-style to make sure it doesn't crash into a Somali, duh. Oh and then turn around, give the car to a nigger, and arrest Orange Man.

 

[draggs]

I expect better from people with the monopoly on killing me. ICE agents shouldn't be shooting American citizen and especially not mothers.

No one cares what you expect doe

 

[YHWH's Strongest Soldier]

I don't but I also don't believe LE's have to just stand there and be run over by anarchists and niggers.

He wasn't in the trajectory of the vehicle. He just shot a woman because she was avoiding arrest just like the feds killed 82* people because they didn't open the door.

*Edit: I'd just like to emphasize that this figure includes children.

 

[Mayoush]

there was a better angle showing him get hit

the car was not driving towards the agent

 

[KrumBum]

I expect better from people with the monopoly on killing me. ICE agents shouldn't be shooting American citizen and especially not mothers.

"The person being driven at should just realize it's ok actually and not think they might be in danger" oooooof.

Her life was in NO DANGER if she just sat there. But the dumb ass thought she was in a Marvel Movie and got merced for attempting to use her car as a weapon.