The details surrounding the shooting were not immediately clear, but Minnesota governor Tim Walz said the person was shot amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Minneapolis police chief, Brian O’Hara, said a 37-year-old man was killed. He urged people to remain peaceful and not to destroy the city.
Mr O’Hara said there was limited information about the shooting. He called on people to leave the area and said it is “not sustainable”.
“Our demand today is for those federal agencies that are operating in our city to do so with the same discipline, humanity and integrity that effective law enforcement in this country demands,” the chief said.
“We urge everyone to remain peaceful. We recognise that there is a lot of anger and a lot of questions around what has happened, but we need people to remain peaceful in the area.”
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin told the Associated Press in a text message that the person had a firearm with two magazines and that the situation was “evolving”.
She said officers fired “defensive shots” after a man with a handgun approached them and “violently resisted” when officers tried to disarm him.
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Mr O’Hara said the man’s only previous interaction with law enforcement as far as he knew was for traffic tickets.
“And we believe he is a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry,” he said.
The shooting happened amid widespread daily protests in the Twin Cities since the January 7 shooting of Renee Good (37), who was killed when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officer fired into her vehicle.
Saturday’s shooting unfolded just over a mile away from where Ms Good was shot.
Mr Walz, a Democrat, said in a social media post that he had been in contact with the White House after the shooting. He urged US president Donald Trump to end what the Department of Homeland Security has called its largest-ever immigration enforcement operation.
“Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now,” Mr Walz said in a post on X.
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The DHS distributed a photo of a handgun they said was on the person who was shot.
After the shooting, an angry crowd gathered and screamed profanities at federal officers, calling them “cowards” and telling them to go home.
One officer responded mockingly as he walked away, telling them: “Boo hoo.” Agents elsewhere shoved a yelling protester into a car.
Protesters dragged rubbish bins from alleyways to block the streets, and people who gathered chanted, “Ice out now”, referring to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (Ice).
“They’re killing my neighbours!” Minneapolis resident Josh Koskie said.
Federal officers wielded batons and deployed flash bangs on the crowd.
The intersection where the shooting took place was blocked off, and border patrol agents were on the scene wielding batons.
The shooting happened a day after thousands of demonstrators protesting against the crackdown on immigrants crowded the city’s streets in frigid weather, calling for federal law enforcement to leave.
Scuffles between federal agents and community members, amid tear gas clouds, at the scene of the shooting (REUTERS/Tim Evans)
It comes as the FBI officer who tried to investigate the ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Good resigned.
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Good, a US citizen and mother of three, was shot multiple times by ICE agent Jonathan Ross while behind the wheel of her car earlier this month in Minneapolis.
Good’s death and other immigration officer-involved shootings prompted mass protests against US president Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation efforts.
Federal agents during scuffles at the scene of the shooting (REUTERS/Tim Evans)
Tracee Mergen, a supervisor in the FBI’s Minneapolis field office, attempted a civil rights inquiry into Ross, but has now resigned amid pressure from leadership in Washington, DC, to drop the case, The New York Times reported.
Just a day earlier, US vice president JD Vance visited Minneapolis in a demonstration of support for ICE officers and to ask local leaders and activists to reduce tensions, saying ICE was carrying out an important mission to detain immigration violators.
A federal agent stands guard at the scene of a shooting involving federal immigration agents, in Whittier neighborhood, Minneapolis, Minnesota (REUTERS/Seth Herald)
In one of the more dramatic protests, local police arrested dozens of clergy members who sang hymns and prayed as they knelt on a road at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport in calling for Trump to withdraw the 3,000 federal law enforcement officers sent to the area.
Organisers said their demands included legal accountability for the ICE agent who shot dead Renee Good in her car this month as she monitored ICE activities.
They ignored commands to clear the road by officers from local police departments, who arrested and zip-tied dozens of the protesters, who did not resist, before putting them onto buses. Organisers said about 100 clergy members were arrested.
Faith in Minnesota, a nonprofit advocacy group that helped organise the protest, said the clergy were also calling attention to airport and airline workers who they said had been detained by ICE at work. The group asked that airline companies “stand with Minnesotans in calling for ICE to immediately end its surge in the state.”
Across the state, bars, restaurants and shops were closing for the day, organisers said, in what was intended to be the largest display yet of opposition to the federal government’s surge.
“Make no mistake, we are facing a full federal occupation by the United States government through the arm of ICE on unceded Dakota land,” Rachel Dionne-Thunder, vice president of the Indigenous Protector Movement, told the arena crowd. She was one of a series of indigenous, religious, labour and community leaders to speak, calling on ICE to withdraw and for a thorough investigation into Good’s shooting.
