Update on the ICE shooting in Minneapolis ….

Federal officials defended the use of force, saying the woman had “weaponized her vehicle” before being shot. At a news conference, Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security secretary, 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 accounts of federal officials “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,” Mr. Walz said, adding that it cost a person her life on Wednesday.

Here’s what we’re covering:

• What videos show: Footage of the shooting posted on social media and verified by The New York Times show two federal agents trying to get a woman to exit a vehicle that is partially blocking a street. The driver reverses, then pulls forward and begins to turn. A third agent pulls out a gun and fires a shot, then continues firing as the vehicle moves past him. Watch the footage ›

• Victim identified: The woman who was killed by federal immigration agents was identified as Renee Nicole Good by two officials in Minnesota with knowledge of the investigation who were not authorized to share details. The Minneapolis police chief, Brian O’Hara, said in an earlier news conference that there was “nothing to indicate that this woman was the target of any law enforcement investigation.” Read more ›

• Calls for calm: Governor Walz asked for people to protest peacefully, adding that the state’s National Guard troops were prepared to deploy if demonstrations got out of hand. On Wednesday night, thousands gathered for a vigil, packing several blocks around the site of the shooting and yelling chants against Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The shooting was about a mile from where George Floyd was killed by the police in 2020. Read more ›

• Other shootings: In the last four months alone, immigration officers have fired on at least nine people in five states and Washington, D.C. All of the individuals targeted in those shootings were, like the woman killed on Wednesday, fired on while in their vehicles.

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Note….

Minneapolis police officers killed George Floyd in 2020 at area a mile away from todays incident….

Update…

After a federal immigration agent fatally shot a woman in her vehicle in Minneapolis, homeland security officials described the driver as a violent rioter who had “weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them.”

That explanation — which state and local officials have disputed — is not an unusual one from authorities after such incidents. It’s a claim that often has been used as justification for fatal police shootings of otherwise unarmed motorists, a 2021 New York Times investigation found. Often, the motorist was simply trying to get away, trying to edge around officers rather than mow them down.

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Most local and state police officeers are trained and told  NOT shoot AT or INTO vechicles….

image….Members of law enforcement work the scene following a shooting by an ICE agent during operations in Minneapolis on Wednesday…..Stephen Maturen/Getty