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Anti-ICE agitators in Minneapolis blasted fireworks at law enforcement overnight Monday during aggressive protests against the shooting death of Renee Nicole Good, wild video shows.
Officers were seen pinning the violent demonstrators to the ground and whisking them away in handcuffs outside of the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building after the fireballs launched at them exploded during another a tense standoff in the besieged city.
Video shows officers throwing canisters of tear gas in response, before moving in to make arrests outside of the barricaded building, which serves as the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) regional headquarters.
Demonstrators hurled insults and expletives at the officers as they hauled people away, the chaotic clip shows.
Similar scenes have played out around the Twin Cities over the past week as people have taken to the streets demanding federal immigration officials leave the state.
On Sunday, video showed officers arrest a man inside of a home in Minneapolis after pepper spraying protesters who confronted the federal agents on the street. The protesters honked car horns, banged on drums and blew whistles in an attempt to disrupt the operation.
About an hour away in St. Cloud, hundreds of protesters and ICE agents clashed Monday in the parking lot of a strip mall that’s home to several Somali-owned businesses, according to the Star Tribune.
The crowd swelled after a local Somali news network posted a live video on social media, drawing more people to the mall.
More than 2,000 arrests have been made in Minnesota since law enforcement launched a major immigration operation in the beginning of December, according to Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin.
Some 2,000 immigration agents have been deployed to the North Star state, with another 1,000 on the way.
Protests exploded in Minnesota after ICE agent Jonathan Ross fatally shot Good, a 37-year-old mom of three, on Jan. 7 after federal officials claimed she used her car as a weapon and endangered an ICE agent during an operation in Minneapolis.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem labelled Good as “domestic terrorist.”
Ross is unlikely to be criminally charged in the fatal shooting and the Justice Department is not expected to open a civil rights probe in Good’s death, sources told the New York Times.
This could change, however, as the investigation unfolds, the sources added.
Meanwhile, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and US Sen. Tina Smith said separately Sunday that state authorities should be included in the investigation because the federal government has already made clear what it believes happened.
Protests also kicked off in Portland Oregon after Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents shot two people during a traffic stop.
Officials said that the married couple have ties to the vicious Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua and were shot after they “weaponized” their car while fleeing the stop.
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