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.

 

[Jump]

You made up a nice story, but I'll wait for the official report and body cams.

They don't have body cams and Trump OIG/DOJ is going to declare it a clean shoot. You can wait and seethe if you like.

Walked up and got in my face so I would push him and he could get me in legal trouble. Because technically I would be in wrong for being the first to "put hands" on him, even though he walked right up into my face, almost nose to nose. Can't stand faggots like that.

She drove up and put herself in this situation by blocking them. She wasn't some rando on the way to work who got pulled over. She drove her car in to the middle of their operation and tried to block them.. Using your logic she is the faggot in this case.

 

[karadion]

Within the narrow scope they are assigned to. They aren't police officers, nor they will ever be.

Wrong, they are law enforcement and always will be because they are defined by statute. They aren't contractors. They aren't guards. They aren't administrative officials. They are statutorily designated law enforcement officers with the same authority as the FBI, ATF, DEA, USMS, etc. When the court refers to the police, they are referring to all of them including ICE. They have no authority limitations. Stop making things up. You have no evidence that they are limited because you intentionally keep skipping (5). (5) is separate from (1), (2), (3), and (4).

Only police officers can arrest without process

Which again ICE are police officers / law enforcement officers can make arrests because I'll quote again "(5) to make arrests— (A) for any offense against the United States, if the offense is committed in the officer's or employee's presence, or (B) for any felony cognizable under the laws of the United States, if the officer or employee has reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has committed or is committing such a felony, (A) and (B) are components of (5).

You made up a nice story

Made up what now? Are you telling me that for example CBS News and the many other news agency reporting this is lying here?



Was her vehicle perpendicular to the flow of traffic? Yes. It's on video. Did they order her out of her vehicle? Yes, we can hear audible commands for her to get out of her vehicle and we can also see an ICE officer reaching into her vehicle to open the door. Prior to that, we can also see her pointing her arm out the window of her vehicle for some reason which we don't hear from her. When she was ordered out of her vehicle, that was under the authority given under PA v Mimms. Obviously you can't read Tyler so I'll explain to you. PA v Mimms is the doctrine where police may order drivers out of a vehicle as a measure even without suspicion. And when I say "MAY", it's not optional, you shall get out of your vehicle. It's not a choice.

 

[Longsword]

That's the "reasoning" of 40IQ Cavemen and actual gradeschool aged children dude

Five years ago these same people desperately wanted my livelihood ruined because I wasn't interested in their fake and gay vaccine. I'm no longer interested in negotiating with or treating them like they're my friends. I don't care if they get shot in the head.

 

[Lookie-lou]

This is what happens when you write off your street foes as mere 'retards' while forgetting the 'heavily armed' part, doubly stupid given all the shit the very same people decry about LEO's in general.

"They won't do shit, it only happens to brown people!" american lib hubris strikes again.

 

[whoishomermynameis]

 

[What the shit]

Common sense is absent with these faggots. The Somalians are laughing at these people for being so unbelievably stupid, which says a lot since the majority of Somalians can be considered mentally retarded.

 

[A Cardboard Box]

It pretty much looks like she put the petal to the metal, but was hampered by ice (Ba dum tss), which is why you see the car speeding away after she got domed. I don’t doubt the engine was revving too and the agents themselves were on slippery ground, which led to the decision to shoot.

So yes, this combined with the officer’s previous experience with vehicular ramming and being dragged by a vehicle, it was justified on the spot.

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Oof that's actually pretty damning. Yeah man I guess don't be a retard and try to kill a cop with your car. Same as many people here, there is no love lost between me and the feds, but you can't just try to kill a fed with a car and think you're immune from consequences (including bullets)

 

[elrond hubbard]

Mr William, a woman is driving her car at me, what should I do?

Blow that nigga head smoove off

 

[pro drivor]

Weak argument imo. Gov is trying to turn evading police into instant death penalty because cops play some faggot game where they stand next to your car out of harm's way but enough to say they got "struck" and then kill you? I had a manipulative, horrible neighbor who did stuff like this. Walked up and got in my face so I would push him and he could get me in legal trouble. Because technically I would be in wrong for being the first to "put hands" on him, even though he walked right up into my face, almost nose to nose. Can't stand faggots like that.

i know what youre talking about and agree with you on that shit being annoying. this isn't the case to illustrate that tho

 

[Neil]

Five years ago these same people desperately wanted my livelihood ruined because I wasn't interested in their fake and gay vaccine. I'm no longer interested in negotiating with or treating them like they're my friends. I don't care if they get shot in the head.

You don't know this random woman's politics or even if she was pro-cancel culture or whatever. You're basing this off of random anonymous people on Twitter hurting your feelings with random 280 character statements that have nothing to fucking do with you directly.

Again, you have the mentality of a fucking child. A terminally online ipad teenager who can't separate the internet from real life.

 

[Jump]

Common sense is absent with these faggots. The Somalians are laughing at these people for being so unbelievably stupid, which says a lot since the majority of Somalians can be considered mentally retarded.

And since she was gay and jewish they are also cheering she was killed.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

That's the "reasoning" of 40IQ Cavemen and actual gradeschool aged children dude

Your point?

When you kill communists, you win. It's as shrimple as that.

 

[The Secret Sauce]

I had a manipulative, horrible neighbor who did stuff like this. Walked up and got in my face so I would push him and he could get me in legal trouble. Because technically I would be in wrong for being the first to "put hands" on him, even though he walked right up into my face, almost nose to nose. Can't stand faggots like that.

So you were repeatedly and continuously bullied by your chad neighbor, to the point where you're whining about it on Kiwifarms? That's awesome, thanks for sharing.

 

[Demonslayer1776]

When you say rock people think a pebble when in reality you don't mean a boulder. Rocks can kill. When thrown hard at someone's head they will.

Really the best thing to picture in this type of comparison is someone throwing a brick. Very close in size and density to the type of rock that would be thrown at someone.

People picture a kid throwing gravel when the reality is something that will crack your skull open.

 

[Dingus Egg]

That's a peace officer not a fed

Yes, which is why:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/111#:~:text=“Whoever forcibly assaults, resists,,1818, provided that: <- Federal law specific to what she did to a federal officer (subsection 2, with enhanced penalty because a car is a lethal weapon)

You seem incapable of actually reading past the first sentence written, even when you're the person citing the source. The first link was to give you an example, the second and third links were the actual situation.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

Again, you have the mentality of a fucking child. A terminally online ipad teenager who can't separate the internet from real life.

She was a dyke who spent all her time on gay democrat causes and eating butch box instead of raising her kid correctly.

Unironically, the poster who you are insulting is a million times more mature than this lady and I hope you apologize to them.

 

[Blue Flying Leaf]

When the court refers to the police, they are referring to all of them including ICE.

Police is a completely separate agency. I've never seen what you describe refereed by court.

Which again ICE are police officers / law enforcement officers can make arrests because I'll quote again "(5) to make arrests— (A) for any offense against the United States, if the offense is committed in the officer's or employee's presence, or (B) for any felony cognizable under the laws of the United States, if the officer or employee has reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has committed or is committing such a felony, (A) and (B) are components of (5).

For the third time. The offense or felony needs to be proven, from court if nothing else.

PA v Mimms is the doctrine where police may order drivers out of a vehicle as a measure even without suspicion

They are not police, they are agents.

 

[Longsword]

You don't know this random woman's politics or even if she was pro-cancel culture or whatever. You're basing this off of random anonymous people on Twitter hurting your feelings with random 280 character statements that have nothing to fucking do with you directly.

Again, you have the mentality of a fucking child. A terminally online ipad teenager who can't separate the internet from real life.

I'd be willing to bet that the Venn diagram of people who participate in ICE protests and people who wanted vaccine mandates is a circle. And even if you're right, she's a liberal and she's guilty by association now.

 

[Cuckoman]

it's still a moving vehicle and typically law enforcement are trained to get out of the way, not shoot at it.

I'm not making some moral judgement on the guy, but I'm telling you that it's the more dangerous decision.

Yes, sure, but sometimes you have to do the slightly more risky option in order to discourage having to jump out of the way of someone trying to vehicularly manslaughtering you a hundred more times.

Only in this incident in isolation was this more risky.
If you take into account having to jump out of the way a hundred times going forward, maybe this was the least risky option. It stopped the next hundred attempts of vehicular manslauther from even being attempted.

 

[A Deer In Headlights]

These are split second decisions that require instant judgment and no reasonable person can fault the agent for choosing to protect himself and potentially others over chancing it by not shooting.

I remember taking an intro to criminal justice class and there was one lecture where the teacher showed us this news clip to demonstrate how much time an officer has to determine if use of force is necessary.

I hate police brutality as much as the next guy, but I don't think all cops are some psycho wishing to cause harm to people. The lady was told multiple times to get out of the car a chose not to listen. I think by the time he was able to process that the lady was only trying to drive away he was already instinctively focused on stopping the threat.

Honestly wished they make criminal justice a required class. Regardless how you feel about law enforcement or what your political stance is, there's a lot of power in knowing how the justice system works and what your rights and expectations are.