A US immigration agent has shot and killed a 37-year-old woman in her car in Minneapolis amid an immigration enforcement surge.
Renee Nicole Good was shot in the head in front of a family member on Wednesday, local time, in the latest incident in President Donald Trump's nationwide crackdown on migrants.
Federal officials said the shooting was an act of self-defence, but Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey rejected their claim, saying he had seen video which contradicted the government's "garbage narrative".
"They're already trying to spin this as an action of self-defence," he said at a press conference.
"Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly — that is bullshit."
Mayor: 'Get the f*** out of Minneapolis'
A visibly angry Cr Frey said federal immigration agents were responsible for sowing chaos in the city, telling US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): "Get the f*** out of Minneapolis."
[map]Ms Good was a local "who was out caring for her neighbours" when she was killed, Minneapolis City Council President Elliott Payne said.
"Her life was taken today at the hands of our federal government," he wrote in a statement on X.
Ms Good's mother, who described her daughter as "extremely compassionate", said she was not the type to confront ICE agents.
"She's taken care of people all her life," her mother, Donna Ganger, told The Minnesota Star Tribune.
"She was loving, forgiving and affectionate."
US Senator Tina Smith, a Minnesota Democrat, said on X that Ms Good was a US citizen.
Incident sparks nationwide protest
The shooting has sparked protests across the country. Some demonstrators were met with heavily armed federal agents wearing gas masks who fired chemical irritants at them.
Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), said in a post on X that the ICE officer began firing after a "violent rioter" attempted to run over ICE officers.
"The alleged perpetrator was hit and is deceased," she wrote.
"The ICE officers who were hurt are expected to make full recoveries."
Videos of the shooting posted on social media and verified by the ABC raised doubts about the government's account.
A shooting caught on video
One widely shared video shows a maroon Honda SUV partially blocking a road.
As the clip begins, the driver inches forward before stopping to let another car drive past.
The driver, with the window down, then appears to gesture to an approaching ute to go ahead as well.
Instead, the ute stops, and two officers exit and approach the vehicle on foot.
As one of the agents orders the driver out of the car and grabs at the door handle, the vehicle reverses briefly, and a third agent comes around to the front of the car from the passenger side.
The driver then goes forward, turning the wheels to the right in what appears to be an effort to head up the street away from the officers.
The agent in front of the car pulls his weapon, steps back, and fires, with the left front bumper coming close to his legs.
He fires three shots, with at least one shot after the car's front bumper has already passed him.
It was not clear from the video whether the car made contact with the officer, who stayed on his feet throughout the encounter.
After the shots are fired, the car accelerates up the street and crashes into parked cars and a utility pole.
Woman 'viciously ran over ICE officer', Trump says
Mr Trump posted a video of the incident from a different angle than the footage circulating on other social media platforms.
In his Truth post, he claimed the woman screaming in the video was a professional agitator.
"The woman driving was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, wilfully and viciously ran over an ICE officer," he wrote.
Mr Trump has deployed federal immigration agents to Democratic-led cities across the US through his first year in office.
The administration planned to send about 2,000 agents to Minneapolis, following allegations of wide-scale welfare fraud involving Somali immigrants, whom Mr Trump has called "garbage".
Witnesses describe shooting
A car with a bullet hole through its windshield and blood splattered across the headrest was seen on the street where the shooting happened.
Venus de Mars, a 65-year-old Minneapolis resident who lives near the site of the shooting, described seeing paramedics perform CPR on a woman collapsed near the crashed car.
Shortly after, they loaded her into an ambulance that drove away without its sirens on.
"There's been lots of ICE activity, but nothing like this," de Mars said.
"I'm so angry. I'm so angry, and I feel helpless."
Commissioner Bob Jacobson of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety said the state would investigate the shooting with federal authorities.
Walz slams Trump
In a press conference, Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz warned that the Trump administration's "dangerous, sensationalised operations" are a threat to public safety.
"What we're seeing is the consequences of governance designed to generate fear, headlines, and conflict. It's governing by reality TV. And today that recklessness cost someone their life," he said.
"It's beyond me that, apparently … the federal government … the Homeland Security director herself, has already determined who this person was, what their motive was, and they hadn't even been taken out of the vehicle.
"We're not living in a normal world."
The deployment of agents to Minneapolis follows Mr Trump's recent attacks on Mr Walz and the state's large population of Somali Americans and Somali immigrants over allegations of fraud by some non-profit groups that administer childcare services.
At least 56 people have pleaded guilty since federal prosecutors started to bring charges in 2022 under Mr Trump's Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden.
Mr Walz, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 2024 who dropped out of the governor race on Monday following the allegations, said the incident was a "propaganda machine" in a post on X.
[link x]Immigration agents have been involved in other similar shootings during the Trump administration's crackdown.
During an immigration enforcement surge in Chicago last fall, ICE agents shot and killed a Mexican national in his car after agents attempted to arrest him.
A DHS statement said the man had steered his car at agents, dragging one officer and causing him to fire out of fear for his life.
Border Patrol agents also shot a woman in Chicago in October, who DHS said rammed into the agents' vehicle.
But her lawyer said video footage showed the agents hit her car before opening fire.
In December, ICE agents in Maryland fired at a van carrying two men, leaving one with bullet wounds.
A DHS statement said the men drove at ICE officers, prompting them to fire in self-defence.
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