State and local officials demanded ICE leave the state after 37-year-old Renee Nicole Macklin Good was shot by an ICE agent after she refused orders to stop her vehicle.
But Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said agents are not going anywhere.
The Department of Homeland Security has deployed more than 2,000 officers to the area in what it says is its largest immigration enforcement operation ever. Noem said more than 1,500 people have been arrested.
The videos of the shooting show an officer approaching an SUV stopped across the middle of the road, demanding the driver open the door and grabbing the handle. The Honda Pilot begins to pull forward, and a different ICE officer standing in front of it pulls his weapon and immediately fires at least two shots as the vehicle moves towards him.
Noem called the incident an “act of domestic terrorism” against ICE officers, saying the driver “attempted to run them over and rammed them with her vehicle. An officer of ours acted quickly and defensively, shot, to protect himself and the people around him.”
President Donald Trump made similar accusations on social media and defended ICE’s work.
Noem alleged that the woman was part of a “mob of agitators” and said the officer followed his training. She said the FBI would investigate.
The Democrat mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, and the state's Democrat governor, Tim Walz were quick to call news conferences to denounce the actions of the ICE agent and called for President Trump to end the ICE operation.
