Ice kills again, Minneapolis in revolt. White House: 'Patriot agents'. Obama: 'Alarm bell for every American'

A Bring Me The News reporter who was near the scene stated that an officer opened fire on a man outside Glam Doll Donuts, at the corner of Nicollet Avenue and 26th Street, around 9am. A video of the reporter reveals that several shots were fired and that the officer was only a few feet away from the man when he was hit, apparently in the chest.

The US broadcaster Nbc reported that ICE agents have now withdrawn from the area after "clearing nearby streets with smoke bombs". Dozens of vehicles, with and without markings, drove away from the scene of the shooting, and masked men were driving, the Nbc stated. The protesters threw snowballs at the officers and insulted them. In response, officers sprayed pepper spray, tear gas and threw smoke bombs at the protesters.

 This is the third shooting involving federal agents in Minneapolis. The first victim was 37-year-old Renee Good, a mother of three, who was killed on the morning of 7 January by an Ice agent who fired several gunshots: law enforcement officers failed to render her aid and prevented a doctor from intervening. Her killing sparked protests across the country. On 15 January, an ICE agent shot a Venezuelan migrant in the leg after what was described as a 'targeted roadside check'. The man, who according to the Department of Homeland Security was resisting arrest, was taken to hospital with minor injuries.

"I just spoke with the White House after yet another gruesome shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had enough. This situation is abhorrent. The President must put an end to this operation. Immediately withdraw the thousands of violent and unprepared agents from Minnesota. Immediately,' wrote Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on X. Walz also said he told the White House that the state should lead the investigation. "Let state investigators provide justice," he asked. "As we process the crime scene, keep calm and give them space. The state has the manpower to ensure people's safety: federal agents should not impede our ability to do so," he added.

Even Jacob Frey - the city's mayor - is calling on Trump to withdraw the Ice agents. "How many more residents, how many more Americans have to die or be seriously injured for this operation to end?" he commented after seeing of the shooting. In which the agents "beat one of our constituents to death," he said. Frey then addressed the American president directly: "To President Trump: this is the time to act as a leader," he urged. "Minneapolis, America first at this time. Let us achieve peace. Let us end this operation and, I assure you, safety will be restored in our city,' he concluded.

A federal judge in Minnesota has issued a temporary restraining order thatprevents federal officials from "destroying or altering evidence related to the fatal shooting involving federal agents" that occurred on Saturday. The order - issued by Judge Eric C. Tostrud, a Trump appointee - was issued as part of a lawsuit filed just hours earlier by county and state officials who are investigating the shooting but claim they were obstructed by federal officials.

According to the order, they are prohibited from destroying, altering or concealing any evidence related to the incident, including evidence that federal officials and those working for them have removed from the scene or are currently in their sole custody.The judge also set a hearing for Monday to decide whether the order should remain in place or be extended.

The lawsuit was filed by the Hennepin County Prosecutor's Office and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), with the participation of the Minnesota Attorney General's Office, after state investigators claimed that they were initially denied access to the scene of the incident, despite having a search warrant. The Minnesota Attorney General emphasised that the order was necessary to ensure a 'full, impartial, and transparent' investigation into Alex Pretti's death and promised that the state would not settle for less.

Donald Trump comments on the killing of a man in Minneapolis by federal agents posting on Truth the photo of the victim's alleged weapon and accusing the city's mayor and the governor of Minnesota of not cooperating with ICE and even 'inciting insurrection with their pompous, dangerous and arrogant rhetoric'.

'This,' he writes, 'is the bomber's gun, loaded (with two additional full magazines!) and ready to use: what does this mean? Where are the local police forces? Why were they not allowed to protect the ICE officers? Have the mayor and governor recalled them? It is claimed that many of these police officers were not allowed to do their job, and that the Ice agents had to defend themselves, which was not easy!" "Why - he continues - Ilhan Omar - a Dem MP of Somali origin, ed - has $34 million in his account? And where are the tens of billions of dollars that have been stolen from the once glorious state of Minnesota? We got to this point because of massive financial fraud, with billions of dollars missing and illegal criminals allowed to infiltrate the state thanks to the Democrats' open borders policy. We want the money back, and we want it now. Those crooks who stole the money are going to jail, where they deserve to be! This is no different than a bank robbery of massive proportions. Much of what you are witnessing is an attempt to cover up this theft and fraud'.

"The mayor and the governor," he adds, "are inciting insurrection with their pompous, dangerous, and arrogant rhetoric! Instead, these hypocritical politicians should be looking for the billions of dollars that have been stolen from the people of Minnesota and the United States of America. Let our ICE patriots do their job! 12.000 criminal illegal immigrants, many of them violent, have been arrested and removed from Minnesota. If they were still there, you would witness something far worse than what you are seeing today!".

Prosecutor coordinates response to Minneapolis killing

Hennepin County Prosecutor Mary Moriarty said in a memo that her office is working with the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (Bca) to "coordinate a state response"."The scene needs to be secured by local law enforcement to collect and preserve evidence," the memo reads. "We expect the federal government to allow the Bca to examine the scene," it added. According to Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara told CNN, federal officials attempted to prevent local police from accessing the scene.

Meanwhile, around 100 clergy members were arrested at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport during a demonstration against the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in Minnesota, according to protest organisers. Mostly Christian clergy and religious leaders gathered at the airport, where they claimed some planes were deporting detained migrants, according to Justin Lind-Ayres, a Lutheran pastor in Minneapolis. The protesters knelt singing hymns and reciting the Lord's Prayer in polar temperatures, before being handcuffed and taken away, videos show.

The arrests came during a day of mobilisation against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the Twin Cities - dubbed 'Truth and Freedom Day' - that called on Minnesotans to boycott schools, jobs, and shopping. Despite arctic temperatures, thousands of people took part in demonstrations and marches to express their opposition to increased federal immigration enforcement activity in recent weeks.

Metropolitan Airports Commission spokesman Jeff Lea said the protesters were arrested outside the main terminal because they exceeded the limits of the permit granted for the rally and disrupted air operations. Reverend Elizabeth Barish Browne travelled from Cheyenne, Wyoming, to attend the rally in downtown Minneapolis. "What is happening here is clearly immoral," said the Unitarian Universalist minister. "It's definitely cold, but the kind of ice that's really dangerous to us is not the weather," she joked.

Meanwhile, thousands of people gathered, despite the sub-zero temperatures, for a march protesting the presence of Ice agents while an FBI agent who had tried to investigate the Ice officer who has shot dead a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis has resigned from the agency, according to reports to the New York Times from two people familiar with the events.

Tracee Mergen quit her position as supervisor at the FBI's Minneapolis office after the agency's top brass in Washington allegedly pressured her to stop an investigation into civil rights violations by anti-immigration police officer Jonathan Ross, according to one of the sources. Such investigations are standard investigative procedure in cases of similar shootings.

Mergen's resignation is only the latest consequence of the controversy sparked by the Justice Department's handling of the shooting in which  Renee Good, an unarmed mother, was killed on 7 January while driving her Honda Pilot. After the incident, several Trump administration officials described Good as a "domestic terrorist", accusing her of attempting to run over Ross with her car. However, a video analysis conducted by the New York Times showed no indication that the officer was run over.

'An act of domestic terrorism' against ICE agents: Homeland Security Secretary Kris Noem stands by this definition to explain the killing of Alex Pretti by a federal anti-immigration agent in Minneapolis. It is the same definition used for the earlier killing of Renee Good, who was also associated with a domestic terrorist for obstructing the work of ICE.