Minneapolis mayor tears into Trump administration’s ‘garbage narrative’ after ICE agent shoots girl useless | EUROtoday

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey issued a scathing denunciation of the Trump administration and known as for federal brokers to “get the f*** out” of the town on Wednesday, after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot a lady who was blocking regulation enforcement in her automobile.

“We do not want you here,” Frey mentioned throughout a Wednesday information convention.

Federal officers have accused the girl of being a “rioter” who “weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them,” one thing Frey mentioned was “bulls***” and a “garbage narrative,” primarily based on video he had seen of the incident. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem additionally described her actions as “an act of domestic terrorism.”

“This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying, getting killed,” Frey continued.

Later Wednesday, the girl was recognized as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good.

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Frey pushed again in opposition to the Trump administration’s claims that Good’s actions had been “an act of domestic terrorism” throughout an look on CNN Wednesday night.

“I saw the same videos you saw, and the notion that this is domestic terrorism on the form of the victim, yeah, it’s positively ridiculous,” mentioned Frey.

Frey additionally repeated his name for ICE officers to go away the town.

“My message to ICE, pure and simple, is to leave. My message to our community is that this is our moment to stand up and do the right thing,” he advised CNN.

Unverified movies of the incident, posted on-line, appeared to point out Good struggling to navigate her automobile slowly as regulation enforcement brokers surrounded her. As she tried to maneuver and drive away, the officer fired a number of photographs. The automotive then sped away and crashed right into a phone pole.

Good was shot within the head in the course of the incident and was later pronounced useless at an space hospital, in accordance with Minneapolis police.

The mayor known as on neighborhood members to stay peaceable, warning that the white House would use any violence from protesters to justify extra military-style drive within the metropolis, the place the Trump administration is already deploying round 2,000 brokers in an immigration and anti-fraud crackdown. Minneapolis was beforehand house to widespread protests and cases of looting and rioting in 2020 after the police homicide of George Floyd.

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“They are not here to cause safety in this city,” Frey mentioned of the Trump administration immigration brokers. “What they are doing is not to provide safety in America. What they are doing is causing chaos and distrust.”

At the briefing, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara mentioned he was “very concerned” by the taking pictures and mentioned “in any professional law enforcement agency in the country,” officers are “intensely” educated to keep away from conditions the place they would want to make use of lethal drive on unarmed civilians, as gave the impression to be the case with the Wednesday taking pictures.

The FBI and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension will examine the taking pictures, which occurred throughout a protest of immigration operations round thirty fourth Street and Portland Avenue.

The Trump administration has been surging immigration brokers to the Minneapolis space since late final 12 months. The White House ramped up operations in current days after a viral video claimed Minneapolis day care facilities had been defrauding the federal authorities.

The crackdown follows President Trump’s frequent derogatory feedback in regards to the substantial Somali inhabitants within the Twin Cities, whom the president has known as “garbage.”