ICE shoots Minneapolis protester who seemed to be trying to ram them,
leftists try to create a new George Floyd
Clearly a case of self-defense, based on the numerous videos.
Clearly a case of self-defense, based on the numerous videos.
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8 Jan 2026 ~~ By Monica Showalter
You would think Minneapolis's leaders would do all they could to try to salvage their city's riot-prone image in the wake of the George Floyd debacle. But you'd be wrong.
Here's the latest idiocy coming out of what looks like a sad situation for a leftist woman lacking reasonable judgment around police operations, according to the
New York Times:
A federal officer shot and killed a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis during an immigration enforcement operation Wednesday, as the Trump administration intensified a crackdown on illegal immigration. Details of the shooting remained unclear, with conflicting accounts from local and federal officials.
Tricia McLaughlin, a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman, said in a statement that an agent had opened fire after a woman “weaponized her vehicle” in an attempt to kill federal officers. Mayor Jacob Frey called her account “bullshit” in a news conference, describing the shooting instead as “an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying, getting killed.”
Well, no, it was not 'Bee Ess', and anyone looking at the videos on X can clearly see that it looked like a protester ramming ICE agents in the course of their duties, using her car as a weapon, and an agent or agents firing back through the windshield, which can only be done from the front. To any reasonable observer, that's self-defense, even as it led to an unfortunate ending for the leftist.
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None of this has stopped the radical left, led by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, fromfrom over-reacting. Frey shrieked profanity at the television cameras to keep things whipped up.
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The left has the press on its side, but even that is a tattered weapon with all the X videos going around showing different sides of the ramming incident indicating self-defense.
Yes, it's sad for the protestor, but these things inevitably happen, given that lawmen don't know right off the bat if the person ramming them with their car and ignoring orders to stop is armed, a cartel leader, a human smuggler trying to escape justice, or a mere leftist trying to escape responsibility for reckless actions.
That doesn't excuse Minneapolis leaders, truly among the worst in the country, for taking measures to ensure more rioting in their city from out-of-control leftists. They'll get it, and then where will Minneapolis be?
Commentary:
The video does not show the entire confrontation. There were two ICE officers trying to get their white vehicle unstuck on the Icy road. Apparently this woman had been harassing the Ice agents with her vehicle. That is how her vehicle was sideways in the road behind the white Ice vehicle. It has not been mentioned yet if she hit any of these two officers, but the officer that eventually was in front of her vehicle was missing his cap. The two Ice agents went to the side of the road and called for backup. The silver truck ICE vehicle pulled up to arrest the woman and that is where the video starts.
The ICE officers from the truck went to her driver side door and the officers on the side of the road can be seen moving between her vehicle and the white vehicle. One got in front of her vehicle and one got behind her vehicle blocking her from escaping arrest. When she took off, it was the ICE officer from the white vehicle, and who was standing in front, that fired the shots.