Details remained in dispute, with President Donald Trump saying on social media that the agents had acted in self-defense, while state and local officials described federal accounts of the shooting with terms like “propaganda” and “garbage.” More than 1,000 protesters were gathered at the site of the shooting oWednesday night for a vigil.
Federal officials defended the use of force, saying the woman had “weaponized her vehicle” before being shot. At a news conference, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the woman was “stalking” officers, and that the agent who killed her “used his training to save his life and those of his colleagues.”
Mayor Jacob Frey called the federal officials’ account “bullshit,” describing the shooting instead as “an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying, getting killed.” Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota posted on social media, “Don’t believe this propaganda machine.”
Connor Janeksela, 30, who lives on the street where the shooting took place, described what he saw: “One of the ICE agents tried to rip her door open, and another one got in front of the vehicle and then shouted, ‘Stop!’ before firing three times within a second of saying, ‘Stop.’”
In his own news conference, the governor said the shooting was predictable. “We have been warning for weeks that the Trump administration’s dangerous, sensationalized operations are a threat to our public safety,” Walz said, adding that it cost a person her life Wednesday.
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