In Minnesota, federal agents fired tear gas, pepper balls and stun grenades at protesters who gathered late Wednesday near the scene where a federal agent shot and injured a man in north Minneapolis. Mayor Jacob Frey said after the shooting that details remain unclear, even as he once again condemned ICE’s surge of agents into the Twin Cities. Witnesses told the Star Tribune that a series of gunshots followed a car chase and foot chase involving federal agents, who reportedly ordered residents to come out of their homes with their hands up. Several people, including children, then walked out into the freezing cold. According to the Trump administration, the gunshot victim was shot in the leg after he began to resist arrest and “violently assault” an officer. Minneapolis has recorded three shootings since New Year’s Day. Two of them were by federal agents. In a video statement released shortly before the latest shooting, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz condemned what he called a “campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government.”

Gov. Tim Walz: “Armed, masked, undertrained ICE agents are going door to door, ordering people to point out where their neighbors of color live. They’re pulling over people indiscriminately, including U.S. citizens, and demanding to see their papers. And at grocery stores, at bus stops, even at our schools, they’re breaking windows, dragging pregnant women down the street, just plain grabbing Minnesotans and shoving them into unmarked vans, kidnapping innocent people with no warning and no due process.”