President Trump said he watched the video of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer fatally shooting a woman in Minnesota on Wednesday, concluding the officer was acting “in self defense.”
“I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
Trump went on to say the ICE officer is alive and recovering in the hospital following the incident.
“The situation is being studied, in its entirety, but the reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis. They are just trying to do the job of MAKING AMERICA SAFE. We need to stand by and protect our Law Enforcement Officers from this Radical Left Movement of Violence and Hate!” the president said.
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed an ICE officer fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a post on the social platform X that the incident took place when “violent rioters” attempted to interfere in an ICE operation conducted in the city.
McLaughlin said one of the protesters attempted to “run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them—an act of domestic terrorism.”
However, that claim was refuted by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D), who strongly pushed back on the department’s version of events.
“Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly, that is bulls‑‑‑,” Frey said. “This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying, getting killed.”
The development comes as hundreds of federal agents recently were deployed to the state as part of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts.