Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey rips ICE after officer shot and killed woman:

[ad_1] Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey had a strongly worded message for federal immigration officers after an ICE officer shot and killed a 37-year-old lady on Wednesday: "Get the f*** out of Minneapolis."

At a information convention after the taking pictures, Frey stated, "We don't need you right here. Your acknowledged purpose for being on this metropolis is to create some type of security and also you're doing precisely the alternative."

The taking pictures on a residential avenue in south Minneapolis Wednesday morning killed a 37-year-old lady in an SUV. In keeping with U.S. Sen. Tina Smith, she was a U.S. citizen. Metropolis leaders stated she was a authorized observer of federal actions within the metropolis and wasn't a goal for an ICE-related arrest.

Division of Homeland Safety spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin described the taking pictures as an act of self-defense and alleged that the lady tried to run over regulation enforcement officers in an space the place there had been clashes with protesters. Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem characterised the driving force's actions as an "act of home terrorism."

"The lady driving the automotive was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer," President Trump wrote in a social media publish.

Movies of the incident don't present any officers being "run over." A number of have been surrounding the car and had ordered the driving force out earlier than the she began to drive off, resulting in the taking pictures.

It comes after the Trump administration started an inflow of two,000 federal regulation enforcement members to the Twin Cities metro space for immigration enforcement and to research fraud allegations .

"They aren't right here to trigger security on this metropolis. What they're doing is to not present security in America. What they're doing is inflicting chaos and mistrust," Frey stated on the information convention.

"Lengthy-term Minneapolis residents which have contributed so enormously to our metropolis, to our tradition, to our financial system are being terrorized and now any individual is useless," he stated. "That is on you, and it is also on you to go away."

The mayor stated the native authorities will "do every part attainable" to pursue justice within the case.

Frey disputed the DHS officers' description of occasions main as much as the taking pictures, which was captured on video by a number of witnesses.

"Having seen the video myself, I need to inform everyone immediately: that's bulls**t," he stated. "This was an agent recklessly utilizing energy that resulted in any individual dying, getting killed."

Frey informed reporters that authorities have "dreaded this second" for the reason that early days of ICE deployment to the realm. Final month, the Trump administration started directing a surge of federal brokers to the state, which incorporates 1,500 ICE Enforcement and Removing Operations brokers and 650 Homeland Safety Investigations brokers.