Warning: Distressing content with strong language. The woman said she was trying to drive to a doctor appointment when ICE reportedly broke the windows of her car, cut her seatbelt and yanked her out of the vehicle – arresting her as protesters cried “let her go”
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Masked ICE agents were involved in another terrifying confrontation in Minnesota, wrenching a random woman out of her car and arresting her while protesters cried to let her go.
The standoff happened just two blocks from the spot where an ICE agent shot Renee Good less than a week ago.
The woman who has not yet been identified, begged onlookers to help as ICE agents surrounded her car, smashing her car windows, cutting her seatbelt and yanking her out of the vehicle. Video of the clash shows the woman arguing with agents who are ordering her to move her car – she complains to them after one threatened to break her windows if she did not move.
“That’s not how you ask somebody to move a car,” she says, edging her car forward. As people move in to help, they’re angrily told to “get back” by the masked agents. After a few moments of her speaking to an agent through her drivers side window, another agent in a baseball cap is seen approaching the car from the opposite side, smashing the glass and forcing the passenger side door open.
Agents surge around the vehicle, opening the rear doors as she screams and tries to drive away. They eventually open the drivers side door and push her out onto the floor.
“I’ve been beat up by police before,” she shouts to onlookers. “I’m disabled, trying to go to the doctor up there, that’s why I couldn’t move.” As they cut her seatbelt and carry her out of the car, she continues to shout: “I am an autistic disabled person, I’m trying to go to the doctor.” They push her against the side of the car, cuff her hands behind her back, and lead her away.
Local reports suggest tear gas, flash bangs and pepper balls were fired towards protesters during the confrontation at the corner of 34th Street and Park in Minneapolis. The government crackdown is next headed to a federal court where Minnesota and two mayors are asking a judge to immediately suspend the operation. No hearing has been set on the request.
In Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, students protesting the immigration enforcement operation walked out of school as students elsewhere have done this week. With the Department of Homeland Security pledging to send more than 2,000 immigration officers into Minnesota, the state, joined by Minneapolis and St. Paul, sued President Donald Trump’s administration Monday to halt or limit the surge. The lawsuit says the Department of Homeland Security is violating the First Amendment and other constitutional protections by focusing on a progressive state that favors Democrats and welcomes immigrants.
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An ICE agent in a baseball cap broke the car window(Image: AFP via Getty Images)
“This is, in essence, a federal invasion of the Twin Cities in Minnesota, and it must stop,” state Attorney General Keith Ellison said.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said: “What we are seeing is thousands — plural — thousands of federal agents coming into our city. And, yeah, they’re having a tremendous impact on day-to-day life.”
Dozens of protests or vigils have taken place across the U.S. to honor Good since the 37-year-old mother of three was killed.
Homeland Security says it has made more than 2,000 arrests in the state since early December and is vowing to not back down. Spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, responding to the lawsuit, accused Minnesota officials of ignoring public safety.
“President Trump’s job is to protect the American people and enforce the law — no matter who your mayor, governor, or state attorney general is,” McLaughlin said.
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The woman has yet to be identified(Image: Getty Images)
The Trump administration has repeatedly defended the immigration agent who shot Good, saying he acted in self-defense. But that explanation has been widely panned by Frey, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and others based on videos of the confrontation.
Two Democratic lawmakers from Massachusetts announced Tuesday they are sponsoring a bill to make it easier for people to sue and overcome immunity protections for federal officers who are accused of violating civil rights. The bill stands little chance of passage in the Republican-controlled Congress.
In Wisconsin, Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez is proposing that the state ban civil immigration enforcement around courthouses, hospitals, health clinics, schools, churches and other places. She is hoping to succeed Gov. Tony Evers, a fellow Democrat, who is not running for a third term.
“We can take a look at that, but I think banning things absolutely will ramp up the actions of our folks in Washington, D.C.,” Evers said, referring to the Trump administration. “They don’t tend to approach those things appropriately.”
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